Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (December 14, 1921 – November 7, 2013) was an American teacher of art and art history and an early innovator in the teaching of women-in-art history courses. She was born to Lillian Kaufman and Aaron Streifer in Harlem, New York, and moved to Brooklyn shortly thereafter.

Education Her art education began with exploring the various art museums in her hometown of Brooklyn, followed by training with Works Progress Administration (WPA) artists during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs during the Great Depression. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present, published in 1982 by G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Mass., Chosen at the "Best Humanities Book of 1982 in the Scholarly and Professional Category" by the Association of American Publishers. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, 1990 by the same as above. TSBN:9780816187324 Angie Bray:Glimpses by C. S. Rubenstein, Sue Spaid and Suvan Geer, 2000 by Fresno Art Museum. ,

Personal life

From an early age Rubenstein was interested and involved in political causes and action. As a teenager she was involved in the attempt to improve the lot of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and as an adult was involved in protests against both McCarthyism and the Vietnam War.