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As early as 1936 MacIver’s husband, the poet Lloyd Frankenberg, urged Duncan Phillips to consider his wife’s work; however, it was not until 1949, after visiting her exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, that Phillips decided to include a MacIver painting in his collection. In 1951 Phillips mounted a solo exhibition of her work at The Phillips Collection, and from it he purchased another painting, The Window Shade (1948). In 1965 Phillips held a second exhibition of MacIver’s work and purchased another painting, the lyrical, opalescent Printemps (1964).
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