Background
She was born in New York City, the daughter of Carrie (née Friendlich 1871-1950), and Morris Lazar (1865-1935). Her mother was born in Kansas to a German family, and her father was an immigrant from Romania.
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Elizabeth Horman
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Barnard College; Art Students League of New New York
Career
The events of her son"s death were chronicled in the 1982 film Missing. Horman is best known for her impressionist paintings. She served as president of the National Association of Women Artists from 1976 to 1979.
Horman was also an art educator working in schools and giving guest lectures.
Her son Charles Horman"s disappearance and death in 1973 in Chile was a major news story of the time. Elizabeth stayed in the United States and mostly out of the limelight.
She did attend the 1982 Cannes Film Festival premiere for the film about her family, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her husband Edmund died in 1993 at age 87.
He was portrayed in the film Missing by Jack Lemmon.
