CHRYSSA  (1933- )  sculptor.
          Full name: Vardea Chryssa Mavromichaeli.
          Born Athens, Greece, 1933.
          She studied in Paris before caming to America in 1954 at age 21.
          At the suggestion of Art in America magazine Chryssa
          was invited to take part in the creation of a bas-relief as a
          Christmas gift in 1965 and invented–along with six other
          modern American artsts–a new genre, medallic objects!
          R  E  L  I  E  F  S
1965 Events Of The Day (recast from a newspaper printing
          plate) [one of first American medallic objects]. . . . . . .
          A  R  C  H   I  V  E  S
AAA Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: January 1968 lecture, 26 page   transcript.
          B I O G R A P I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S
A10 {1965} Bryant (Edward}  Christmas For Connoisseurs, Art In America 53:6 (December-January 1965- 66) pp 38-44           [advertisement p 136].
D20 {1966} Cummings: 1966 [1ed:83], 1971 [2ed:96],
          1977 [3ed:       ], 1984 [4ed:       ],
          1988 [5ed:       ], 1996 [6ed:177].               
BA  {1966} Who's Who In American Art: 1966 [9ed:77],
          1970 [10ed:69], 1973 [11ed:130-131],
          1976 [12ed:100], 1978 [13ed:131],
          1980 [14ed:168], 1982 [15ed:187],
          1984 [16ed:165], 1986 [17ed:178],
          1989 [18ed:187], 1990 [19ed:197],
          1992 [20ed:208], 1995 [21ed:216],
          1997 [22ed:214], 1999 [23ed:216],
          2001 [24ed:210], 2003 [25ed:203],
          2005 [26ed:229].
101 {1974} Hunter (Sam)  Chryssa.  New York: Harry N. Abrams (1974) 76 pp, illus.
A29 {1982} Baigell, p 68.
BW2 {1982} Rubinstein, p 352, illus 8-9.
D33 {1986} Opitz, p 152.
A38 {1988} Osborne, p 113.
BW4{1990} Chiarmonte, 314 p 275, 356 283, 1879-1884 560-561.
BW5 {1990} Dunford, p 64.
BW6 {1990} Rubinstein, p 386.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 1:644.
D3a {2006} Benezit.Dictionary of Artists, p 3:992-993.