Selma Levy Oppenheimer (1898 - 3 October 1988) was an artist from Baltimore.

Education and career

Oppenheimer graduated from

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...

in 1919 and matriculated at the

Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a private art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of the oldest art colleges in the U ...

or MICA, where she studied portraiture and costume design. Oppenheimer exhibited widely in the state, as well as nationally and abroad. She was a founding member and president of the Maryland chapter of the Artists' Equity Association. She also served on the board of trustees of the

Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of ...

from 1961 to 1972.

Work

Oppenheimer worked in a range of media, including drawing, watercolor, oil painting, and sculpture. Her work is preserved in collections throughout the state, including Johns Hopkins University. A charcoal study of a woman is housed at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, and her portrait of her husband, the Hon. Reuben Oppenheimer, hangs in the Clarence Mitchell courtroom of Baltimore Circuit Court.

References

1898 births 1988 deaths 20th-century American painters Artists from Baltimore Painters from Maryland Goucher College alumni Maryland Institute College of Art alumni 20th-century American women painters {{US-painter-1890s-stub