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Doris Langer- How Wondrous is a Butterfly WingDescription
The daughter of Russian immigrants, 92-year old Doris Langer was born in Brooklyn on Christmas Day. She still has fond memories of walking to the top of the Statue of Liberty with her father.
She and her future husband Irwin met at a high school party. After he returned from the war, they lived in Virginia while he attended college and eventually settled in Los Angeles. There they raised their two daughters and Doris worked in furniture design centers and showrooms. Doris, who now has 3 grandsons, believes “education is the key.” She’s proud that her daughters completed their studies at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara to become a school principal and a nurse.
The key to a long life, says Doris, is “good living, exercise, and eating right,” though she confesses, with a mischievous smile, that she periodically enjoys a salami sandwich. “I’m a hat person,” declares this elder with a definite eye for fashion and color, and “I believe in doing.”
Doris only began doing her own art after the death of her husband. Her art today reflects colors, shapes and designs that form a relationship with an interior space. She began her butterfly series after seeing photographs of butterfly wings under a microscope. It “inspired me to fly,” she says.
