Sandra Wittow, a respected artist who was the first woman to have a one-person show at the Denver Art Museum, passed away Aug. 6, 2011, in Denver.
Cantor Joel Lichterman officiated at the Aug. 8 service held at BMH-BJ. Interment followed at Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
An oil-painter who used hand stretched and hand sized linen canvas, Mrs. Wittow described herself as a narrative, metaphoric and figure artist to help define the kind of realist artist I am.
Her one-woman exhibit at DAM, called Disenchantment, expressed universal truths and emotions found in fairy tales.
She credited writer Vladimir Nabokov, her literature teacher at Cornell University, as having the greatest influence on my philosophy of what makes great art.
Her major artistic achievements include The Rose and the Briar, a retrospective exhibition at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the JCC; Annunciation and Joseph and Jesus, a 2007 commission for the St. John Francis Regis Chapel at Regis University; and 10 paintings installed at CU under the State of Colorado Art in Public Places Program.
Her works are on display throughout Colorado and the United States.
Sandra Albert was born March 26, 1935, on Denvers West Side. She attended Colfax Elementary, Lake Junior and North High.
Recipient of a BFA from Cornell University, she later earned an MFA from CU.
She married Herbert Wittow on June 10, 1956.
Mrs. Wittow is survived by her husband Herbert Wittow; sons Aharon (Gila) Wittow of Israel and Shmuel Leib (Nili) Wittow of Israel; 13 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her son Eric Wittow.
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