Selma gubin biography

Selma Gubin, painter and printmaker, was born in Kiev, Russia to Benjamin and Dora Gubin on 1January 1903. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1909 and she became a naturalized United States citizen on 1 January 1918.

Gubin studied at Hunter College, the Art Students League, and New York University.

Her teachers included John Sloan, Bryon Brown, Raphael Soyer, and Boardman Robinson. Gubin acquired a hot dog stand on Rockaway Beach in 1933 that allowed her time to paint. She was employed by the Work Progress Administration Federal Art Project between August 1935 and June 1941, in the Art Teaching Division and in the Murals Division.

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She also gave private art lessons and managed the summer Timberline Camp at Jewett, New York.

She was a member of New York Artists Equity Association and the National Association of Women Artists. She was conferred the F.W. Weber award by the National Association of Women Artists. Gubin’s art was exhibited at the Municipal Ar Selma Gubin Biography | Annex Galleries Fine Prints NUCA