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- Birth nameRosamond Margaret Rosenbaum
- Rosamond Bernier was born on October 1, 1916 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Camera Three (1954), American Masters (1985) and Great Performances: Dance in America (1976). She was married to John Russell, Georges Bernier and Lewis A. Riley Jr.,. She died on November 10, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesJohn Russell(1975 - August 23, 2008) (his death)Georges Bernier(1948 - ?) (divorced)Lewis A. Riley Jr.,(1935 - 1943) (divorced)
- She was a Vogue correspondent in Paris after WWII. She worked for several art magazines before starting her own, L'Oeil (The Eye). As the editor and principal contributor, she wrote about her friendships with Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Braque, and Léger.
- She was an art lecturer who played to sell-out crowds by blending scholarship, a flair for stage drama, and stories of her days as a friend to legendary artists. Art lectures, which usually attracted only the most devout scholars and devotees, became popular events at leading museums across the US when her name was on the bill.
- She grew up in a musical home on Philadelphia's Main Line. Her parents' guests included Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski. As a young visitor in Mexico, she met Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Aaron Copland.
- Over four decades, she delivered more than a thousand talks at museums, universities, and corporate settings in the United States and Europe.
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