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VIRGINIA LEBERMAN (Am. 1886-1968)
A painter, graphic artist, photographer and writer, Ella Virginia Leberman was born in Austin, Texas and took up painting in her late 30s when she was ill and had to stay away from her employment as a draftsman for the Texas Highway Department. She studied with Samuel Gideon in Austin and then attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She also studied summers in Taos, New Mexico during the late 1930s and early 40s with Alexander Hogue, Xavier Gonzalez and Joseph Imoff. In the 1940s, she went to Elizabethtown, New York as a student of Robert Brackman and Wayman Adams, and in 1945, she painted in Provincetown, Massachusetts with George Elmer Browne. In addition to painting, she became a skilled photographer whose work included portraits of prominent persons such as Eleanor Roosevelt.
Her first husband, Henry Lebermann, was a blind musician, and he died in 1941. When World War I began, she dropped for herself and her children the second n in the name Lebermann, so it sounded less German. Her second husband was Carl Christianson, her partner in a photography studio in Austin.
Leberman was president of the Texas Fine Arts Association in 1953. Other affiliations were the American Photographic Society and the Austin Art League. She exhibited her paintings and photographs in many Texas venues.
She died in Austin in 1968.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists"
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