Dorothea M (Thompson) Litzinger - Artist Info

About Dorothea M (Thompson) Litzinger

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Dorothea Thompson
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    "Dorothea Litzinger" 1889-1925, by Beth Haber, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

    An artist best known for her paintings of flowers, Dorothea Litzinger also painted landscapes, decorative screens, and panels. It is not apparent that her work reflected any connection with her Jewish background: Her choice of subject matter was completely in concert with acceptable norms for upper-class women who painted.

    In her art and social milieu, Litzinger appears to have lived a highly assimilated life. In the artist’s file at the New York Public Library there is an invitation, dated March 1923, from Messrs. Kennedy and Company at 693 Fifth Avenue to a “special Easter Exhibition of decorative flower and landscape paintings by Do...

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