Dorothea Greenbaum

alt=A photograph of a bronze sculpture of a nude woman holding a towel. The sculpture appears in a park or garden, in front of a lush, flowering bush with peach-colored flowers. Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum (1893–1986) was an American painter and sculptor.

Biography She was born Dorothea Schwarcz to parents Emma and Maximilian Schwarcz in New York city on June 17, 1893. She studied at both the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Art Students League. In 1915, when Dorothea was 22, her father Maximilain drowned during the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

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.”

She was included in the 1914 exhibition of the National Academy of Design. 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. and was a founding member of New York Artists Equity Association in 1947. In 1972, a 45-year retrospective exhibition of her work was presented at the SculptureCenter, New York. the Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.