Sandra Albert Wittow (1935–2011) was born in Denver, Colorado, on the West Side. She attended Colfax Elementary School, and Lake Junior and North High School. Mrs. Wittow is recipient of a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a Master of Fine Art (MFA) from Colorado University (CU). 

An oil-painter who used hand-stretched and hand-sized canvas. Mrs. Wittow described herself as "a narrative, metaphoric, and figure artist." She credited writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), her professor of Russian and European literature at Cornell University, as having the greatest influence on "my philosophy of what makes art great." Her major artistic achievements include: the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Entitled "The Disenchantment" series, it expressed the universal truths and emotions found in Fairy Tales. In addition, other notable achievements include The Rose and the Briar, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Mizel Art and Culture Center at the JCC in Denver; the Annunciation and Joseph and Jesus, a 2007 commission for the St. John Francis Regis Chapel at Regis University in Denver; and ten paintings installed at CU under the State of Colorado Art in Public Places Program. Her works are on display throughout Colorado and the United States. 

The current exhibition is divided into three sections: The History of Portrait Painting / Using herself and her husband Herbert as subjects, the series mimics portraiture of the past; Metaphoric Realism / Included in this series are images of fairy tales, seashells, and hats; Memories / Imagery drawing on personal tragedy and innocent victims.

Salon Gallery
6.8.25-4.10.25

Opening event: Sunday | 10.8.25 | 19:00

Sandra Wittow, Innocence Lost, 1979, oil on canvas
Sandra Wittow, Infinity, 1979, oil on canvas
Photos courtesy of the artist's family