Background
Although the family home was in Larchmont, New York, Lin’s mother spent the winter season in Florida, and kept her daughter with her.
Although the family home was in Larchmont, New York, Lin’s mother spent the winter season in Florida, and kept her daughter with her.
Lin’s Hungarian father died when she was three. This meant shuttling between a fall and springtime school in suburban New York, and a winter school in Florida. A final full year in a boarding school, with a Rudolf Steiner curriculum, provided the structure to earn college entry credits.
At age 16, Lin entered Columbia University.
From there she continued changing schools, attending Syracuse University, the University of Mexico, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne. Whenever there was free time from classes, she painted and drew, on her own.
In Paris she spent evenings drawing from a model, and, noticing a sculpture studio, taught by Russian artist Ossip Zadkine, she enrolled. lieutenant was there that she found that sculpture would be her life.
On returning to the United States she learned welding and casting at the New York Sculpture Center.
Settling in New Orleans she turned her living quarters into a fully equipped studio. 2004 Honorary Doctorate, Loyola University of the South 1996 New Orleans Museum of Art, Los Angeles 2010 Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Florida.