Her notable works can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad.
In 1912 she enrolled at the Belgrade Arts and Crafts School, where Milan Milovanović, Đorđe Jovanović and Marko Murat were her teachers.
She studied painting in Budapest under professor Lajos Deák Ébner, and took part in the courses of professors Pál Szinyei Merse and Istvan Reti of the Barbizon in Nagybanya artists' colony and school, considered very influential in Hungarian and Romanian art.
Through her works in oil and watercolor, she wanted to express her love toward life as a whole, poor people and particularly the peasant women from various regions of Serbian lands.
[5] Though she has her own accomplished and individual style in painting—a robust contemporary poetic realism—Zora Petrović did not live in a closed circle of her artistic creations.