De Escobar, Estelle Glaser, 1908-
Painter
Size: 0.01 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of painter Estelle Glaser De Escobar date from 1945 to 1969 and measure 0.01 linear feet. The papers provide scattered documentation of De Escobar's career as a painter through a résumé, a list of her works, annotated exhibition catalogues, a 1951 photograph of Estelle with her mother and daughter, and miscellany.
Estelle Glaser De Escobar (1908-unknown) was a painter who lived and worked in both Brooklyn, New York and Bogotá, Colombia. De Escobar was born in Brooklyn in 1908, and completed her studies at Cooper Union Women's Art School in 1930. She married Luis Javier Escobar Lopez in 1932 and moved to Bogotá, Colombia. During the 1950s De Escobar taught art at the University Javeriana Femenina in Bogotá before returning to the United States around 1960. Thereafter she taught at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and at Cooper Union Women's Art School. De Escobar exhibited her works primarily in Brooklyn, Bogotá, and Rome.
Donated 1960 by Estelle Glaser De Escobar.
The material is in English and Spanish.
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