Shirley Moskowitz Gruber (American, 1920-2007)
Shirley Moskowitz was a painter, sculptor, and cartoonist who had over 25 solo exhibitions during her long career.
Studied: Museum School of Art in Houston; Rice University; Oberlin College.
Member: Pennsylvania Academy; Texas Fine Art Association; AEA; Woodmere Gallery Art Club; Philadelphia Watercolor Society
Exhibited: Texas General Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Texas Fine Art Association; Akron Art Exhibition, Ann. Oil & Ann Watercolor, PAFA; AWCS, NAD; Allen Art Mus., Oberlin, OH.; Temple Univ.; Cheltenham, Pa. Art Center;
Preferred media: acrylics, woods.
Positions: Art Ed. "The Rice Owl"
Taught: Sidney Lanier High School, Houston, TX., Houston College for Negroes; University of Texas, Austin; Houston Public Schools; Oberlin Public Schools.
Public Collections:
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Arco Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa.
Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Republic of Ireland
Bell Atlantic; Merck & Co.
Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.
Free Library of Philadelphia, Pa.
Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland
Museo di Nocara, Italy
Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa. Museum of Art
Robert I. Kahn Museum, Houston, Texas
Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa.mom-and-umbrella1
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
Shirley Moskowitz was born in Houston in 1920 and died in 2007 in Santa Monica, Calif. At present, we are especially looking to trace Shirley’s many artworks made in Houston and throughout Texas when she was student at San Jacinto High School (’37), Rice University (’41) and at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (1936-’39). Shirley also taught at the museum and in the Houston public schools. Shirley went on to receive an M.A. in fine arts from Oberlin College (’42), and then to establish a career and family in Philadelphia, where she lived until 2003 before moving to California. Shirley always maintained close ties to Houston through her many friends and relatives. She continued to exhibit widely in Texas throughout the 1940s and her work can be found in several Texas museums and collections.
As a tribute to her art and life, her family has started a website about her work as well as a catalogue of her art.