She was born Dorothea Schwarcz to parents Emma and Maximilian Schwarcz in New York city on June 17 , 1893 . She studied at both the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Art Students League . In 1915 , when Dorothea was 22 , her father Maximilain drowned during the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
Dorothea Greenbaum