Shifra Goldman

Shifra Goldman (née Meyerowitz; July 18, 1926 – September 11, 2011) was an American art historian, feminist, and activist.

Life Goldman grew up in New York City and moved to Los Angeles after World War II. Her parents, a trade unionist mother and a political activist father came from Poland and Russia and both exposed Goldman to art and politics at an early age.

Goldman went to the High School of Music and Art in New York. When her family moved to Los Angeles, Goldman enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Goldman maintained a sizable collection of archival material relating to art and artists which she donated to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at UC Santa Barbara.

Works Mexican muralism: its social-educative roles in Latin America and the United States, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 1980 Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change 1981; University of New Mexico Press, 1995,

Shifra M. Goldman, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (eds) Arte Chicano: a comprehensive annotated bibliography of Chicano art, 1965-1981, Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1985,

Quotes "I was never in the mainstream, never in all my life. I was born on the margins, lived on the margins, and have always sympathized with the margins. They make a lot more sense to me than the mainstream."