The Art of Virginia Strom Precourt 

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Big Wheel

1974

Acrylic and oil on canvas

48” x 85”

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Two sons and a husband who worked in the magazine business ensured that sports publications were always around in Virginia S. Precourt’s house. She’d never been—nor would ever go—to a racetrack, but the startlingly bright imagery of the cars in motion portrayed in those magazines captured her imagination.  

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