 Dorothea Schwarcz is primarily known as Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum
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An example of work by Dorothea Schwarcz
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Known for peaceful sculpture expressing her love of humanity, Dorothea Greenbaum was a New-York based artist born into a comfortable family in Brooklyn. One of her pieces, Sleeping Beauty, completed in 1928 was exhibited in the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. Early in her career, she was a painter but later changed to sculpture of figures and animals, and became most known for her mastery of clay modeling as well as pieces in bronze and hammered lead.
When she was age twenty-two, her father drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania, and she was left with enough inheritance that unlike many of her peers, she did not have to struggle to support herself.
She became part of a group of artists working at the Art Students League in the 1920s, and working first as a painter, shared studio space in Manhattan's Union Square with painter Betty Parsons. She had her first one-person show at the Weyhe Gallery in Manhattan, and 1947, was specially recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In her late thirties, she experimented with sculpture, working in bronze and marble. One of her themes was her disapproval of the Fascist government in Italy.
She devoted time to running the Sculptors Guild, an avant-garde group, as well as to other groups that improved the plight of artists. She was one of the founders of Artists Equity that fought the persecution of artists, such as William Zorach, by Senator Joseph McCarthy. She died in 1986 at age ninety-three.
Source: American Women Artists by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
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Note from Leonard M. Weinstock
In 1970 there was a 50 Year Retrospective of Greenbaum's work in the Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton NJ.
Between October 29 and November 18, 1972 a retrospective of her work was held in the Sculpture Center In New York.
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