1940s S Eppenstein Watercolor & Gouache 1946

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1946 Watercolor & Goauche by S Eppenstein. In excellent condition. Image size is 10"x13" , overall 18"x21". I believe this … more 1946 Watercolor & Goauche by S Eppenstein. In excellent condition. Image size is 10"x13" , overall 18"x21". I believe this to be by Sally Eppenstein, San Francisco Artist. 1927-2019. Fascinating image.

Sally Salans Sally Ann Eppenstein was born in Elgin, Illinois, in 1927 and raised in Chicago. Her parents were James F. Eppenstein, a prominent modernist architect, and Louise Kohn Eppenstein, childrens' book writer and author of 'Sally Goes to the Circus Alone", Sally Goes Shopping Alone" and other titles featuring the imagined adventures of their first-born daughter.

Sally attended The Francis Parker School in Chicago and later went to Scripps College in Claremont, California, and to The Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied painting.
After college, she worked briefly in Chicago for Weiss Geller Advertising and as a window designer for the Carson Pirie Scott department store.

Sally married Allen Harvey Salans in1952, and they moved to San Francisco where Harvey set up medical practice and where they raised four children.

Ever interested in growing as an artist, Sally joined San Francisco Women Artists and obtained a bachelor's degree in Art and Art Therapy from Lone Mountain College in 1977.

She was an art instructor in the SF public schools for eight years, worked briefly with pediatric cancer patients at UCSF, and then began teaching art to children one-on-one in her home studio.

Her grandchildren were among the welcomed students. As one said, "You felt so free in Nana's studio. She encouraged us to create without restrictions, without boundaries. I see now, as an adult, it was a deeply therapeutic process. Then, it was just pure fun!"

In later years, Sally showed equal devotion in working with geriatric patients at the San Francisco Institute on Aging.
In the early 1970's, her interest in playing the piano was rekindled, and she pursued classical instruction with the late Sasha Lieberman, of Berkeley. less