Dorothea Greenbaum

[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 discovered sculpting while recovering from an illness later in life, after she was given a piece of clay by a friend.

[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.