Linda durham biography
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STILL MOVING
In this lively memoir, a former gallerist reflects on a life of adventure and self-discovery.
Durham spent the bulk of her professional career running a reputable art gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Founded in 1978, Linda Durham Contemporary Art was a fixture of the Southwest arts scene for decades and “helped launch an innovative contemporary art market in Santa Fe.” But Durham contends the gallery’s impact extended far beyond the local; she writes that the gallery “also opened doors of opportunity and recognition for the vital New Mexico art scene through our participation in top-tier international art fairs.” Due to financial pressures and diminished interest, Durham decided to close the gallery. “I have run out of steam, money, and time,” Durham wrote in a 2011 journal entry. Durham uses the moment as a point of access to trace her journey through life. In short chapters, she looks back on various adventures—the first show she curated, New Mexico in Toronto, whic
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Linda Durham – Still Moving: In Wonder
Linda Durham moved from New York City to Cerrillos, New Mexico in 1966. Born in Philadelphia in 1942, Linda celebrated her 80th birthday just two weeks after returning from a private humanitarian trip to Ukraine. During the long COVID Pandemic/Quarantine months, Linda completed and published the memoir she had been adding to for decades: Still Moving. a memoir. In short storytelling chapters, the book chronicles her life of adventure, risk-taking, re-invention, breakthroughs, challenges, lessons, love, and wonder—-from her Philadelphia and New Jersey beginnings, through three years as a Playboy Bunny in Manhattan, to discoveries in the high desert of New Mexico, thirty-three years as founder and director of a major contemporary art gallery, and her travels to more than sixty countries in some of the most remote parts of our shared world.
For her 70th birthday, Linda traveled around the world in 70 days. Now, her self-challenged
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Linda Carol (Wall) Durham
Linda julsång Wall Durham, 69, of Russell County, Kentucky, daughter of the Myrtle Snow Rexroat of Russell County and the late Lawrence Lorne Wall, was born May 3rd, 1952, in Kings Mountain and departed this life on Friday, månad 3rd, 2021.
She professed her faith in Christ and was of Baptist Faith. Linda was a homemaker most of her life and loved to go to yard sales. She was a loving mother, daughter and wife.
She united in marriage to Ronald Clay Durham on March 13th, 1968.
Survived by:
Her mother: Myrtle Snow Rexroat of Russell Springs.
Her husband: Ronald Clay Durham of Russell Springs.
Four daughters: Pamela Durham of Russell County; Tammy Sue Bradshaw of Columbia; Amanda Durham and her fiancé, Greg Gill, of Campbellsville; and Jacklyn Durham of Russell County.
Three grandchildren: Kathryn Warriner Nunnally of Indiana; Kaitlyn Warriner of Campbellsville; and Klay Warriner of Campbellsville.
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