The Arts and Education
She was treasurer of the German Home for Recreation of Women and Children and was one of the founding members of the Little Italy Neighborhood Association in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the Brooklyn Art School and at the Pratt Institute, and then studied with Walter Shirlaw with her sister, Dorothea. In 1917 she was a director, and perhaps co-founder, of the Art Center in New York City with William Laurel Harris.
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