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Portrait of Dolores Passamaneck

Object number2018.63.2

Artist William Robert Shulgold (1897 - 1989)

Date1942

MediumPaper; Pastel

Credit LineGift of Evi Pazmanczyk

DescriptionPolychrome pastel drawing on rectangular off-white (discolored) paperboard. Drawing features bust portrait of a female in three-quarter view facing slightly proper right. Figure has brown curly hair in updo, brown eyes, and wears a light green blouse with pearl necklace and circular stud earrings. DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 21.188 x 15.375 x 0.125 in. (53.8 x 39.1 x 0.3 cm)
SignedViewer's bottom right corner has handwritten artist signature in black pastel "Wm R Shulgold / 1942".

Historical NotesPortrait of Dolores Passamaneck by William R. Shulgold. Donated by the granddaughter of Herman and Dolores Passamaneck, Evi Pazmanczyk. William Robert Shulgold was born in Kamenietz Russia in 1897. The following year he emigrated to Pittsburgh with his family. He studied art at Carnegie Tech and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Design. He lived in Pittsburgh until 1936 when he moved to New York City. He was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Art Guild of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation. Shulgold is best known for his portraits and etchings. Dolores Jaskol married Herman Passamaneck in 1932. They had one child, Stephen, who was a professor of rabbinics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Following her death from uterine cancer in 1959, the Passamaneck Award was established in her memory to promote regional young musicians in Western Pennsylvania.

Related person Dolores Passamaneck (1910 - 1959)

Related person Herman Passamaneck (1889 - 1984)

Related institution Carnegie Mellon University

Related institution Y Music Society

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