Weinstein, Florence, b. 1895.

Painter and ceramist; New York, N.Y.

Weinstein was educated at Adelphi College, the Sorbonne in Paris, and Middlebury College and taught French until 1951. During that time she spent summers in art colonies such as Rockport and Provincetown, befriending many artists. Her youngest sister, Sylvie, a ceramist, died in 1945, leaving Weinstein with the desire to become an artist herself. Beginning with a free class with Barnett Newman, she continued her studies with Willem DeKooning and Josef Albers, and in 1948 at the "Subjects of the Artist" school with Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and others. After resigning her teaching position in 1951, she began exhibiting her paintings and, later, her ceramics.