Vita Solomon, Venice Italy Landscape Gouache Painting Canal with Gondolier Bridge of Sighs c.,1950s
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Vita P. Solomon Born December 16, 1916 in Philadelphia, PA to Harry Petrosky and Rose Bobrow, Vita graduated from Overbrook … more Vita P. Solomon Born December 16, 1916 in Philadelphia, PA to Harry Petrosky and Rose Bobrow, Vita graduated from Overbrook High School in 1933 and earned her diploma in Illustration and won the Lewis European Fellowship in 1937 from Moore College of Art. While raising a family she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Honors, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Education, with Honors, from Temple University Tyler School of Fine Art in 1958, and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler in 1960. She was commissioned to paint official oil portraits of such notable Pennsylvanians as George Leader, Governor of Pennsylvania (1955-1959); Alfred Williams, Dean of the Wharton School and Federal Reserve Board Governor; Judge Joseph Lord III (Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court); five of the judges of the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia, including Raymond Pace Alexander; Harry Shay, founder of the Fels Research Institute; Keith Doms, Director of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and many others. Her portraits belong to the public collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Courthouse, City Hall, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Pennsylvania Hospital, the Philadelphia Psychiatric Institute, and elsewhere. In 1974 her commissioned portrait of author, Pearl S. Buck, entered into the Permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Vita exhibited widely and frequently in Europe and the United States, winning a Silver Medal at the Paris Salon of 1966 and an Honorable Mention in 1965. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Institute in London, the Metropolitan Academy of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of American Arts, and the World Trade Center in New York. She held several solo and group shows at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Newman Galleries, and elsewhere. Her numerous medals and awards include the Burdine Memorial Prize from Woodmere Art Museum in 1964 and "Best of Year" Exhibit in 1956, 1957 and 1958; the Audubon Artists' Jane Peterson Medal (1975), Allied Artists' Chandler Prize (1960) and National Arts Club Award (1974), the Lovell Award from the Catherine Wolfe Club Annual (1966), and the Philadelphia Print Club's Eugenia Atwood Purchase Prize (1977). After moving to Arizona she won the Tubac Center's Award of Excellence (1991), the Southern Arizona watercolor Guild Award of Excellence (1991), the Arizona Aqueous Award of Excellence (1992), and many other awards and recognitions. Skilled in a variety of media, she was an elected member of the Allied Artists of America, the American Watercolor Society, the American Color Print Society, and the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. From 1959 to 1967 she was a teacher of English and Art at Elkins Park Junior High School and then from 1967-1982 she was teacher of Art and Art History at Cheltenham High School, where she also served as Chairman from 1979 to 1982. At the culmination of her career as a public school teacher she won the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Outstanding Art Educator Award in 1982. In Arizona she taught at the Museum of Art less
- Dimensions
- 18.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 23.75ʺH
- Styles
- Expressionism
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Period
- Mid 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Gouache
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gold
- Condition Notes
- Good good. minor wear. Good good. minor wear. less
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