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LAUREN FLORENCE

If the people in Lauren Florence’s paintings look like they’re from another era, that’s because they are. Her subjects are taken from vintage photos found at flea markets and in old family photo albums, like the image she painted of her husband’s grandfather and his brothers, in overalls and undershirts, holding a string of fish — the night’s dinner, she imagines.

“There’s so much in that photo,” she says. “So many people have a photo like

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