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Janice Lowry was a visual artist who worked in Arizona and California and was known primarily for her assemblages, collages, paintings, and the elaborate visual journals that she kept throughout her life. Her work is highly biographical and chronicles much of her life, most prominently periods of family and marital instability. Lowry ties in specific themes that center on the female body and experience, many of which also figure in her experiences working for interior decorators and the period of establishing herself as an artist while also being a working mother and carving space for herself among the prominent careers of two husbands. In July 2009, the Smithosonian Archives of American Art acquired all 126 volumes of the artists journals.