Dorothea Greenbaum
Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum (1893–1986) was an American painter and sculptor.
Biography[edit]
She was born Dorothea Schwarcz to parents Emma and Maximilian Schwarcz in New York city on June 17, 1893.[1][2][3] She studied at both the New York School of Fine and Applied Art[4] and the Art Students League.[1][5] In 1915, when Dorothea was 22, her father Maximilain drowned during the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania.[3]
As a young child, Greenbaum was chronically ill and could not attend traditional school. This lead her to enroll in Saturday art classes at the age of fifteen. She studied under the painter, Kenneth Hayes Miller. She discovered sculpting while recovering from an illness later in life, after she was given a piece of clay by a friend. Nature was her inspiration for her sculptures, as well as children, women and animals.[6]
Regarding her art, she was quoted in Dorothea Greenbaum: A Retrospective, Exhibition Catalogue, 1972 : “I am interested in forms that displace the air around them.”[7]
She was included in the 1914 exhibition of the National Academy of Design.[2] She was first painter, and began working in sculpture at the age of 34.[8] In 1941 she received the George D. Widener Memorial Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy, and in 1953 she was given a medal of honor by the National Association of Women Artists.[2] She was a member of the Sculptors Guild[9] and was a founding member of New York Artists Equity Association in 1947.[3]
She died in 1986 in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] In 1972, a 45-year retrospective exhibition of her work was presented at the SculptureCenter, New York.[2]
Collections[edit]
Her work is included in the collections of:
- the Whitney Museum of American Art,[10]
- the Institute for Advanced Study,[11]
- the Princeton Art Museum,[12]
- the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts[13] and
- the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Greenbaum, Dorothea Schwarcz (1893–1986)". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ a b c d e Saxon, Wolfgang (April 9, 1986). "Dorothea Greenbaum, Artist; Made Traditional Sculptures". The New York Times. p. 23.
- ^ a b c Joan N. Burstyn; Women's Project of New Jersey (1997). Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse University Press. pp. 305–. ISBN 978-0-8156-0418-1.
- ^ Julius Schwartz; Solomon Aaron Kaye; John Simons (1926). Who's who in American Jewry. Jewish Biographical Bureau. pp. 229–.
- ^ "Prominent Former Students of The Art Students League of New York". The Art Students League. Archived from the original on 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "Dorothea Greenbaum". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Dancing Class". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ Maxine N. Lurie; Michael Siegel, M.D.; Marc Mappen (2004). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. pp. 335–. ISBN 978-0-8135-3325-4.
- ^ ""Displaced", a bronze sculpture by Dorothea Greenbaum, (1895 - 1986), 1968". New Jersey Women's History. Archived from the original on 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Dorothea Greenbaum". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Tiny, Dorothea Greenbaum, 1944 | School of Natural Sciences". Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "Dorothea S. Greenbaum | Princeton University Art Museum". Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "Dorothea Greenbaum | PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts". Archived from the original on 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "Dorothea Greenbaum". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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