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Victoria Olsen

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I read and write biography, memoir, fiction, art reviews, essays, and freelance marketing for tech companies.

I'm co-author of SOME DARK FORCE, a Victorian mystery novel, with Christina Boufis. I write the Substack newsletter, FROM LIFE, about my memoir of my father's art career.

https://www.somedarkforce.com

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	Word Blind: A Tale of Two Readers 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	On The Market 5c by Christina Boufis, Victoria Olsen (Goodreads Author), V. Olsen liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884/86). Art Institute of Chicago.

On April 15, 1958 a fire broke out at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. One panel of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies was ruined and a Jackson Pollock painting was damaged by smoke, which drove the museum to create a Conservation department. In a bit of bad luck, Georges Seurat’s Sunday at La Grande Jatte was on display on t

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Victoria Olsen rated a book it was amazing Her Lisbon Colors by Cynthia Morris (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Charming and heartfelt. Besides Darla's story, the reader learns so much about Lisbon --especially its food and language. Darla emerges as an artist and grows as a human being through her leap-of-faith adventure. Her daily sketchbook becomes another ...more
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Like some of the readers below, I've been finding this hard to get into. The writing is beautiful and I love the dual timeline, but there's not much plot. It's starting to pick up now that I've gotten to the middle. I will definitely finish because 1 ...more
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Really interesting account of the too-little-known artist's long life and work in NYC from the 1940s-2000s. She moved through trends to find photorealism and figuration after abstract expressionism, and persisted through all the obstacles of being a ...more
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