(Re)collecting an Artist’s Dream
Re)collecting an Artist’s Dream is the inaugural exhibition inside and out “The Cottage” and on the road of open air studio Shinnecock Hills. Organized by Sandrow, to be composed of works by Artist Colleagues who participated in her projects…or she in theirs.
Madeline Goodfriend Schonberger
Madeline Goodfriend Schonberger
Bird
1951, Plaster, 11” x 7” x 7”
Collection Hope Sandrow (1951 also the year of Sandrow’s birth)
About (in the words of her daughter, Valerie Bernshaw Razavi)
She was born in 1908 and died in 1993.
Her family lived in Manhattan at her birth.
She grew up in Brooklyn.
Both her parents were Hungarian. Her father came here in 1892. He had a leather business off Gold Street in Manhattan.
We don’t know any other name for her father but Goodfriend.
She went to Pratt Institute in 1928.
She went to Europe with a friend after graduating.
She did ceramics at Alfred University one summer in the 1920s.
Studied sculpture with Jose de Creeft in the 1930s.
Taught commercial art at Manual Training High School for a few years.
Had three children: 1939, 1941 and 1947
She came to Shinnecock Hills in 1948 and was part of the local artists’ group (David Burliek, Eugene Payor, George Constant, Mike Lekakis, Theo Hiss, etc)
Worked at the Sculpture Center (called Clay Club Center) in the forties and fifties.
After that, did portraits in plasticine in her home. Some of which were cast in bronze.
She was not a frustrated woman artist yearning for success. She had many creative outlets.
Had she wanted to be a famous artist she would not have married and had children.
She belonged to a writer’s group and an experimental theatre group. The members were mostly young people who valued her and her experience.
She was a feminist.
She went to Esalen Institute in the 60s.
She was interested in Zen Buddhism.
She loved to travel, she went on one of the first tours of China (two weeks after being hit by a car) and to Egypt and Peru among other places.
Later in her life, she worked in the clay in the ceramics studio at The Katherine Engle Senior Center in NYC.
She also taught a college class at another senior center.
High School graduation 1920s
Late 1930s, early 40s
Janet and Madeline, December 1959
With Martin Schonberger and Patty Burliuk Parrish Art Museum 1950-53
1960s
Madeline with Gottlieb Helpern
Black and white portrait of Madeline
Madeline with Self Portrait in clay 14” x 7” 9” 1986, Women’s Study(room). Collection Hope Sandrow
Janet Stein "Madeline" oil on canvas, Salons of America, Forum Galleries 15 1/2” x11 1/2”
Collections Valerie Burnshaw Razavi and Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
Collections Valerie Burnshaw Razavi and Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
Collections Valerie Burnshaw Razavi and Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
Collections Valerie Burnshaw Razavi and Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
Collections Valerie Burnshaw Razavi and Rosalind Schonberger Brezenoff
"Rita Payor" clay 17” x 11” 1/2” x 11 1970’s”;"Gottlieb Helpern" clay 10” x 6” x 8’ 1960’s; "Bonnie Burnshaw" 7” x 6 1/2” x 6” 1940’s
'Bonnie Burnshaw' 5” x 4” x 2/12”
"Untitled" 1930s limestone, 10” x 10” x 9”
"Hen" clay, 5” x 6” x 4”
"Woman as Bird" clay, 6 1/2” 3” x 3 1/2”
"Bird," marble 7” x 7” x 4”
Self Portrait, clay on dressing table in the Cottage.
"Easter Eggs" 1946, oil on canvas, 11-1/2” x 15-1/4” Women’s Study(room) Collection Hope Sandrow
Women's Study Room, with "Bird" on dressing table and work on the wall.
Portrait of Gottlieb Helpern, clay