Shulamith WITTENBERG – MILLER

 

1908 - 1995

 

Paintings, watercolours, drawings, graphics and writings

 


 

Shulamith Wittenberg Miller in about 1968 (image archives SAJBD) 

Shulamith Wittenberg Miller in about 1968 - image archives SAJBD Johannesburg


 

Brief C.V.

 

Born 1908 in Jerusalem, attended Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, under Prof. Boris Schatz; advanced studies in Paris at the Académie Montparnasse under the cubist painter André Lhote. In 1933, married Rabbi Meyer Miller and moved to the U.S.A. that year, residing in Greenwich CT until 1950.

See further details about her CV obtained from the New York Public Library archives (PDF)

In 1950 Shulamith Wittenberg-Miller moved to Durban as her husband had been appointed the spiritual leader of the Durban Reform Congregation which he was to build up in a 20 year ministry. She continued to paint and exhibit in South Africa and abroad.

Her husband retired at the end of 1969 and moved with his wife Shulamith to the Garden City Jewish Centre, Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. in 1970. During the 1980s she lived in West Hempstead, N.Y.

 


 

Selected exhibitions

 

First Tower of David Exhibition, Jerusalem, April, 1921

SA Association of Arts, Cape Town - Paintings and etchings - March, 1962

Gallery 101, Johannesburg ("Women of the Bible") (copper etchings) – 27th April - 14th May, 1964

Durban Art Gallery, Durban - 22nd September to 3rd October, 1965

SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - Republic Festival Exhibition, 1966 (May) cat. 200

 

Durban - 8th to 22nd May, 1968 (paintings)

Durban Jewish Club, Durban - 23rd August, 1975 (etchings)

 


 

Selected Images

 

Shulamith WITTENBERG - MILLER "Portrait of an African child", 1960 - oil on canvas, 23 x 16 cm (img douglasstewart.com.au - 2012)

"Portrait of an African child", 1960 - oil on canvas, 23 x 16 cm, signed and dated lower edge ‘S.W. Miller 1960’

 

Originally private collection in Melbourne, sold at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Pasadena CA, in February 2012

Downloaded from http://douglasstewart.com.au/

 

 


 

Works in Public Museums

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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY USA

 

Shulamith WITTENBERG - MILLER “Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord”, 1963 (img Brooklyn Museum - Augustus Healy Fund 65.29.2)

“Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord”, 1963 – etching/paper 12/25 – 25.4x20.3 cm - (Augustus Healy Fund 65.29.2)

also:

“Lag Ba’Omer in Maron”, 1960 – etching/paper 7/20 – 15x2x20.3 cm - (Augustus Healy Fund 65.29.1)

 

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University of California UCLA, Berkeley CA

 

40 graphics are recorded in The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (see PDF) at

The Bancroft Library

 

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New York Public Library – The Print Collection

 

"The daughter of Jephtah", 1962 - etching 5/25

¨"But his wife looked back", 1964 - etching 4/25

"Sabbath in Meah Shearim", 1968 - etching - ed. n/av.

 

Other data - see ephemera file of NYPL (PDF)

 

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Hebrew Union College Jewish Museum, Cincinnati OH

 

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Spertus Museum, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago IL

 

Disposed of most of their collection on 15th August, 2007, by auction through Leslie Hindman Auctioneers as follows:

Sale 59 Lot 1113 – a group of 32 prints

Sale 59 Lot 1114 – 4 drawings and a linocut q.v.

Shulamith WITTENBERG - MILLER “A Yemeni tailor” linocut (download from Leslie Hindman auctioneers Sale 59 Lot 1114)

“A Yemeni tailor” linocut

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Durban Art Gallery, Durban

 

"Moses" (etching) and "Jochebed nursing the child, Moses", (etching) (donated by the artist) (see PDF)

 

 


 

 

Selected Publications and Press cuttings relating to South Africa mainly

 

“Art & Artists of South Africa” (Berman) (Balkema), 1983, pp. 516, 523, 539

Natal Daily News, Durban - 22nd April, 1958 - exhibition review

Cape Times, Cape Town - 15th March, 1962 - exhibition review by Matthys Bokhorst

Cape Times, Cape Town - 16th March, 1962, ill. article

Natal Mercury, Durban - 7th September, 1963 - exhibition review

"Jewish Affairs" (SA Jewish Board of Deputies, Johannesburg) 1964 Vol. 19, p. 23

Jewish Times, Durban - 11th March, 1966 - ill. article

Jewish Affairs, Johannesbûrg - April, 1968, p. 26, ill.

Daily News - 18th April, 1969 - exhibition review, ill. with photo of the artist

Zionist Record, Durban - 22nd August, 1975 - article

 

„WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 1564-1975 (Peter Hastings Falk, Editor), 1999

http://douglasstewart.com.au/files/catalogues/DSFB_California_2012_Web11.pdf - p.25, cat. 35, ill.

 


 

Books published and illustrated by Shulamith W Miller

 

„I remember Jerusalem“ (Olive Tree Press, West Hempstead N.Y.), 1983

“Rabbi Meyer Miller 1903-1985 – a remembrance: poems and sketches” (memorial booklet, privately printed, USA), 28 pp., abt. 1986

 


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