Background
Dora Deborah Kaminsky was born in New York City in 1909.
Dora Deborah Kaminsky was born in New York City in 1909.
As a child, she attended the The Educational Alliance, followed by the Art Students League of New New York
She proceeded to study in Europe in the 1930s, including in Vienna, Paris, Stuttgart, and Munich. She made money as an artists" model. She worked at the Brooklyn Museum and co-founded the National Serigraph Society.
In 1944, she visit Taos, New Mexico.
She relocated there in 1954. She also had a home in Delphi, Greece.
She worked in Hawaii for a brief period. Kaminsky married Leon Gaspard.
He died in 1964 and Kaminsky served as curator of retrospective exhibitions of his work.
From 1972-1973 she visited Africa and India. She worked in serigraph printing, pastel drawing, and painting. She died in Taos in 1977.
The Abandoned Sluice, watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia