[1] She studied at the Art Students League of New York as a teenager (1930–1934) with John Steuart Curry, Raphael Soyer, Anne Goldthwaite, and George Bridgman.

Like Hofmann, she believed that “the shapes that compose the picture below to nothing else but the picture.” With his encouragement, she began to merge the idea that space is filled with “myriad, infinitesimal subdivisions” that changed into vibrating interplay of elements into her work.

[2] In 1936, she began working as a WPA Federal Art Project muralist with Burgoyne Diller for the Central Nurses Home on Welfare Island.

The gathering consisted roughly of Byron Browne, Gertrude and Balcomb Greene, Harry Holtzman, George McNeil, Albert Swiden, Lassaw, Burgoyne Diller, and myself.

"[5] The Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne papers[6] and a 1968 oral history interview[7] are located at the Archives of American Art.