Background
Gross, Sidney was born on February 9, 1921 in New York City. Son of Morris and Esther (Alpern) Gross.
(ca 1950)
ca 1950
1950
Gross, Sidney was born on February 9, 1921 in New York City. Son of Morris and Esther (Alpern) Gross.
Student Art Students’ League, New York City (high school scholarship 1939, Schnackenberg scholar 1941, Tiffany fellow 1949).
One man shows Contemporary Arts Gallery, 1945, 46, Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1960, 61, Frank Rehn Gallery, New York City, 1949, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 63, 67, 69. Group shows Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy, Corcoran Galleries, Virginia Biennial. Toledo Museum, Albright Gallery, Carnegie Institute, U. Nebraska, Illinois Wesleyan, University of Illinois, Hallmark Art Award show, Pepsi-Cola Gallery, U.Ga., Butler The Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis The Art Institute of Chicago, New York Armory Show, Brklyn.
Museum, Museum Modern Art, New York City, Institute Contemporary Art, Boston, W.R. Nelson Gallery, Virginia Museum Fine Arts, Detroit Institute Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Art United States of America, Washington Gallery Modern Art, Des Moines Art Center, Isaac Delgado Museum, Federation Modern Painters and Sculptors American, Audubon Artists, American Academy Arts and Letters, National Institute Arts and Letters, Riverside Museum, American Federation Artists National Tour, Hallmark European Tour. Works in permanent collection Whitney Museum American Art, Lempert Institute, Brandeis, Cornell universities, U. Omaha, Mount Holyoke College, U. Georgia, Butler The Art Institute of Chicago, American Academy Arts and Letters, Riverside Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Baltimore Museum, Chrysler Museum, Columbia University, Colby College, University of Illinois, Morgan State College, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Syracuse University, Allentown Museum, University of Rochester, Norfolk Museum, Israel Museum Jerusalem, U. Maryland., Michigan State University, Standard Financial Corporation, James Michener College of University Texas, Oklahoma Art Center. Works also private collections.
Profiles, eproductions of work in nat. mags., newspapers. Teacher Columbia University, also Art Students League. Associate professor art College Arts and Sciences, U. Maryland., 1967-1969.
Married Katherine Kranther, March 10, 1944. Married second, Juliana Penn, August 6, 1966, married third Elaine August on March 12, 1969.
(1890-1972) Sidney's portrait of his father
(1890-1974)
(1890-1974) An artist in her own right, primarily sculpture, one solo exhibition. Portrait by Sidney Gross
Semi-professional singer who worked at the Jewish Philanthropy Federation and was active in art circles. She donated over 100 painting from his estate to Art Students League. Elaine was also an advocate of social issues and the publicity director of the Women’s Division of the State of Israel Bonds, Maryland chapter. As a member of the New York Collegiate Chorale, she had met Marian Anderson, who was also photographed with Sidney. She was described as a “patron of the Art Students League” where Sidney had long taught.
Elaine went on to marry retired NYPD officer Lawrence Richman, took his name, but continued to live in New York in Sidney’s and Elaine’s old apartment on 95th Street until her death. She returned to her first love, her singing. Elaine August died in 2009.
