The Reizenstein Family
The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Charlotte Louise Reizenstein Rosenberg Sherman (c1911-1999) came from a large and prominent family in Pittsburgh with a well-known glass business. She attended Peabody High School, where she was honored for graphic arts. After graduating high school, she studied art under George Bridgman of the Art Student’s League in New York but left after two years to attend the University of Pittsburgh and to study under W. Reid Hastie.
Rosenberg began exhibiting with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh at 16. She had her first solo exhibit at the B. K. Elliot gallery in downtown Pittsburgh in 1930. In the mid-1930s, she worked as a freelance illustrator for the family store and local newspapers.
Rosenberg paused her artistic pursuits for a year in the 1920s while she recovered from tuberculosis. She stopped exhibiting throughout the 1930s and 1940s after marrying Jack Rosenberg and starting a family. She resumed her artistic career in the early 1950s, studying under Samuel Rosenberg at the YM&WHA evening art school and Jean Thoburn at the Arts & Crafts Center of Pittsburgh. She joined the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and became its secretary. She also served as president of the Pittsburgh Water Color Society.
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