Doris Rosenthal. 1889-1971.
Girl in White. c.1931. Lithograph. 9 x 15 1/8 (sheet 13 1/8 x 19 1/4). Edition 75, # 42. A toned impression printed on cream wove paper. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. $375.
Second Class (Night Train). c.1930. Lithograph. 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 (sheet 16 x 12). Edition 80, # 1. Exhibited at The New York Coliseum by Midtown Galleries, N.Y. Six hinge stains in the margins, well outside the image. Signed and titled in pencil. $475.
Summer Breezes No. 1 (Sleeper). c.1931. Lithograph. 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 15 7/8 x 11 1/4). Edition 40, # 1. Huge stains in the margins, well outside the image. A tonal impression printed on 'France' wove paper. Midtown Galleries label. An unusual self protrait. Signed and titled in pencil. $750.
Summer Studio. c.1931. Lithograph. 9 7/8 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 3/8 x 11 1/2). Edition 12, # 9. Exhibited at The Print Club of Philadelphia, January 26 - February 14, 1931 with the title 'Sleeper'. Exhibited at the Newport Art Museum and Art Association, June 11, 2011 to October 16, 2011. 'Remembering the Ladies: Women and the Art Association of Newport.' Printed on cream wove paper with a Midtown Galleries label. A charming and unusual self portait. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. $750.
Doris Rosenthal. 1889-1971. Painter, etcher, lithographer. Born in Riverside, California on July 10, 1889. Rosenthal was a pupil of Bellows and Sloan at the Art Students League in New York and a graduate of Columbia University and Los Angeles Teachers College. She was active in Los Angeles from 1915 to 1925 and then moved to New York. She later lived in Norwalk, Connecticut and in Oaxaca, Mexico where she died on November 26, 1971. She was the wife of Charles "Jack" Charash. Her subjects include landscapes, Southwest genre, and ethnic studies. Doris Rosenthal was a daring explorer, a dedicated educator, and a painter of colorful and expressive yet unromanticized work representing the everyday life of Mexican Indians at a time when anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States was rife. Born in Riverside, California, around 1895, Rosenthal was raised on a ranch by her parents, Emil J. and Anne (Unruh) Rosenthal. She won a scholarship in 1918 to study with George Bellows and John Sloane at the New York Art Students League. Rosenthal was educated at Los Angeles State Teachers College, followed by graduate studies at Columbia University. She then worked briefly as a commercial designer of silks, saving enough money to tour Europe, where she continued the study of painting from 1920 to 1922. After returning from Europe, she married Jack Charash, a theater agent, and her early work depicted backstage scenes and New York department store dressing rooms. While teaching at Columbia Teachers College from 1924 to 1931, Rosenthal actively pursued her painting career and had her first solo show at Morton Galleries in 1928. From 1918-1919, she studied at the Art Students League in New York with George Bellows and John Sloan and then studied in Europe. For several years she taught art in schools in New York City. In 1931, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship with which she traveled in Mexico. There she found the subjects which seemed the right focus for her work--Old Mexico, its color, its people and landscape. Doris Rosenthal died in November 1971, she had made Oaxaca, Mexico, her permanent home. She appears to have had a substantial career. I recall that Life Magazine gave her a nice spread during the mid 1940s. Chase and Sanborn Coffee used her work in their ads, and I find that reproductions of these ads, clipped from magazines, show up on ebay from time to time.
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