Lydia Rheinfrank, 1986
20th Century Publications
Lydia Rheinfrank, 1986
20th Century Publications
Artist
Portrait Painter
Lydia Carey (Spitzer) Rheinfrank was born on October 7, 1909 in Toledo, Ohio to Blanche Carey (Brumback) and Lyman Strong Spitzer, Sr. Her siblings are Luette Ruth Eaton, Lyman Strong Spitzer II, and John Brumback Spitzer Sr.
She graduated from Smead School for Girls in Toledo, Ohio's Old West End. Smead School became Maumee Valley Country Day School.
Before college, Lydia studied pastel painting techniques in Paris, France for a year.
She majored in Art History and graduated from Vasser College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
After college, she worked in wood engraving and etching, and designed silver objects in Florence, Italy for a year.
Lydia studied at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1931 and 1932.
Then she studied oil painting in Greenwich Village, New york for two years.
Lydia married Lamson Rheinfrank Sr. on June 27, 1935. Their children are Lamson Rheinfrank, Jr. and Jenny Barthold.
She was an award winning painter specializing in portraits especially of children.
Lydia was a member of the Junior League of Toledo, the American Garden Club and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Maumee, Ohio.
At St. Paul's Episcopal Church, she designed the sanctuary's two hundred color needlepoint kneeler cushions in the early 1960's and the memorial book in the church's foyer.
Lydia died at Harborside Health Care on December 19, 1999 in Perrysburg, Ohio.
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