Mimi Cazort is a scholar and a former Curator Emerita for Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada

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Biography

From 1970 to 1997, she was the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...

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She was also an associate of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

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 alum Carol Hoorn Fraser

Carol Hoorn Fraser

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 (1930–1991), and was once married to James J. Taylor

James J. Taylor

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 (1931–2005).

She is the author of Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi (1994) and The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy (1996). Cazort is also mother to film director Alan Taylor

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, and Anna Domino

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 the indie rock

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