Doris Staffel
Doris Staffel was born in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in 1944 from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. In 1946 she received her MA at the University of Iowa where she studied with Philip Guston. After receiving her Masters she moved to Queens, New York. She made a living designing and producing silkscreen scarves with friends. In her free time, she attended Hans Hoffman’s painting reviews. In 1948 she moved to Philadelphia with husband Rudolf Staffel, a ceramicist. She taught at the University of the Arts from 1957–1990. She was a member of Group 55 (later the Philadelphia Abstract Artists). Her work was exhibited widely in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and her work is in many private and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Butler Institute of American Art, Bryn Mawr College, the Asheville Art Museum, and the Arkansas Art Center.
