Dorothy Loeb 1887-1971

This information is from Kathryn Petersen, grand niece of Dorothy Loeb.

We have four Dorothy Loeb paintings dated 1956, 1959, 1960 and 1963 all with signatures. These were painted in Mexico. There are two other paintings one of me as a child that would have been painted in the early 1950's and one abstract painting with no signature or date. They are oil on paper one may be on canvas. She couldn't afford canvas in the years we knew her.

We know our aunt Dorothy studied in Paris with Leger. There was an exhibit in Provincetown in January 2002 of Dorothy Loeb and Blance Lazzell. This article mentions that Loeb and Lazzell both worked in Paris and perhaps met there.

There is an earlier WPA exhibit March 28 April 15, 1939 of Lazzell and Loeb. The Art Institute of Chicago has a Dorothy Loeb painting listed in its Ryerson-Burnham archives listed online.

Dorothy Loeb's family lived in Chicago where she grew up. My father (Bob Longini) was the son of Gertrude Loeb, Dorothy's sister, and there was at least one other sister and brother.

Our Aunt Dorothy lived most of her later years in a small town in Mexico in the province of Queretero. Four (or perhaps five) of the paintings we have were done there. She also travelled around the world on "tramp" steamers and buses. She lived on a very small annuity from her family. She returned to the US we think sometime in the early 1960s. She died in a nursing home in Los Angeles in 1971.