About

Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present a solo show of drawings by the late Dorothy F. Foster
(1903–1986).

Foster was born in Jersey City, the youngest of three girls. After her father died at an early age, her mother moved the family to Manhattan, supporting her children as a dressmaker, and renting out a room in their house. Foster attended Wadleigh High School, studied art and interior design at Cooper Union, and went on to design textiles for a living. While working for the clothier A. Sulka and Co. in New York, she painted and wrote poetry in her spare time. In the last decade of their …