| Louise Bourgeois AKA Louise Josephine Bourgeois Born: 25-Dec-1911
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 31-May-2010
Location of death: Manhattan, NY [1]
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Sculptor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Crouching Spider
[1] Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, New York.
Father: Louis Bourgeois (tapestry merchant and restorer, d. 1951)
Mother: Josephine Fauriaux
Mother: Sadie (her English tutor, her father's mistress, cohabited with the family 1922-32)
Husband: Robert Goldwater (art historian, b. 1907, m. 1938, d. 1973, three sons)
Son: Jean-Louis
Son: Alain
Son: Michel (d. 1990)
University: Mathematics and Geometry, Sorbonne
University: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
University: Académie Julian, Paris, France
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Arts Students League 1946
Grand Prix National de Sculpture (France) 1991
National Medal of Arts 1997
Naturalized US Citizen 1951
Heart Attack 29-May-2010
Risk Factors: Insomnia
Author of books:
He Disappeared Into Complete Silence (1947)
Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997 (1998)
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