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These three artists were largely overlooked in the United States until recently, as times were generally not propitious for the recognition of women artists, and because they lived in the shadow of their husbands, who were or were becoming renowned artists. Thus, in 1963 Regina Bogat (born in 1928 in NY) married one of the best friends of Mark Rothko, the painter Alfred Jensen (died in 1981) and Lynn Umlauf (born in 1942 in Austin, TX) was the wife of the painter Michael Goldberg (died in 2013). As for Merrill Wagner (born in 1935 in Seattle), she lived with Robert Ryman, a major figure in …