Rita Gombinski 1919-2015 Jewish American, Oil Painting Abstract Figures, Family.

size: 8.5 x 11 matte, 17.25 x 21 outside frame. Google: ABOUT THE ARTIST: Rita Gombinski (Jewish American woman artist) grew up in the Bronx Rita Gombinski, who owned the Gombinski Gallery with her husband, Mendel, at 900 Lincoln Rd. in Miami Beach, for a decade in the 1980s and 1990s, and two other galleries in New York and Israel. Her work frequently has Jewish or Hebrew motifs, a menorah with a judaic star, Judaica, a mezuzah or megillah scroll by this talented Jewish woman artist. She has also donated paintings to the Bass Museum, University of Miami and organizations in Israel, where she lived during the 1970s. Gombinski's work, done mostly in watercolor but also crayon and ink, evolved from her most influential teacher, William Baziotes, an abstract expressionist and surrealist whose works are in the Guggenheim collection