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After completing her undergraduate degree at NYU in 1957, Chernow married her first husband, Phil Chenok, and had two sons, David (b. 1959) and Daniel (b. 1964). The couple divorced in 1969, when
Chernow was enrolled in graduate school. While studying with Howard Conant, she met her second husband,
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were the subjects of some of her works in the late 1990s. In most of her works, however, Chernow avoids specificity, choosing instead to portray universal situations through figures who are inspired by film but reinterpreted to transcend stereotypes. Chernow has worked extensively in the mediums of
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in 1946, she studied under a local
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As an undergraduate and graduate at NYU (1955–69), Chernow studied under the direction of several artists. Her instructors and mentors included Howard Conant,
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in 1967. The couple married in 1970 and remained together until his death in 1997. She was the life partner of actor
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in the early 1940s, where she attended art classes in the museum galleries. After her family moved to
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