Lillian Desow-Fishbein

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  • Lillian
  • Fay
  • Desow
  • Desow-Fishbein
  • Jack Fishbein
  • Wendy Drezek Shelley Deutsch
  • 1921
  • Detroit, Michigan
  • August 6, 2004
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Polish; Jewish
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Etcher, Lithographer, Painter-Acrylic, Watercolorist
  • 1940: graduated Cranbrook Academy of Art, painting (had scholarship)
  • June 8-August 31, 1955: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    May 25-August 31, 1956: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    May 8-June 9, 1957: Sixtieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: The Speaker’s Table 2, oil

    June 4-August 31, 1957: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    May 26-August 29, 1958: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    June 14-29, 1958:  1958 Chicago Artists Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: Achievement

    May 4, 1959: Sixty-Second Chicago and Vicinity Annual Exhibition, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    June 8-August 28, 1959: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

    Grand Valley State University

    Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • American Jewish Congress

    Art Institute Associates

    National Council of Jewish Women
  • May 8-June 9, 1957: Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Armstrong Prize: Sixtieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois: The Speaker’s Table 2, oil
  • 38 years: teacher

    author:  Jews of Chicago, American Jewish Committee, 1984.

    arts editor, The Sentinel, Chicago, Illinois
  • Parents:   Hyman (May 16, 1880-December 12, 1967 Detroit, Michigan) and Esther (Markowitz 1889-February 28, 1943 Detroit, Michigan) Desow/Dessau

    Siblings:   (all younger)

    Rose Mintz                Sidney A                     Gertrude Komorn        Sam

    David                        Frieda Kolb                 Mary Pudalov             William