Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Robert Bruce Posner, 72, who taught art and drafting in D.C. public schools for more than 25 years until retiring in 1992, died
Jan. 29 at Heartland of Brooksville nursing home in Brooksville, Fla. He had Parkinson's disease and strokes. Mr. Posner
worked at Wilson and Eastern high schools and Paul Junior High School.
He was born in Baltimore and raised in Washington, where he was a 1953 graduate of Eastern High School and a 1958 fine
arts graduate of American University.
After AU, he spent a year attending the Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence and studied drawing and printmaking under other
artists. He was an exhibits specialist at the Smithsonian Institution before joining the D.C. public schools.
Mr. Posner had a one-man show at American University's Watkins Gallery in 1985 and the Curb Art Space in New York in 2007.
He moved to Florida from North Bethesda in 2000.
His marriage to Alice Fins Posner ended in divorce. His second wife, Katherine Berenson Posner, whom he married in 1992,
died in 2005.
Survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Juliette Posner of Brooklyn, N.Y.; four sisters, Judy Posner of Chevy Chase,
Gail Dansky of Bethesda, Sheila Gold of Silver Spring and Linda Ricketts of Woodbury, Conn.; and two grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein