LIZA
Liza Granick was born in Nova Kraruka, Ukraine, Russia and had six children with her husband, Josef, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1905. One of those children was Arthur Granick who along with his wife Anne went on to become important art collectors based in NYC.
Liza Granick began painting very late in life at 75 to relieve the pains of arthritis in her fingers. Her use of bright colors and playful pastoral imagery garnered her many fans, including the owners of Gallery Sixty Two in NYC, where she had an exhibition in the early 1950s. Liza died in 1955 just shortly after a major highlight in her painting career; the opportunity to present former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt one of her originals in person at the U.N.