On occasion the works of Irene Friedman resurface, after spending a lifetime within an existing estate. Upon resurfacing, they get a chance to be catalogued and rediscovered. Kate Marshall Dole wrote a celebration of life article about Friedman for the Chicago Tribune (Mar. 15, 2017), where she outlined Friedman's triumphs over adversity and her compelling desire to create art. Friedman lived for more than 100 years and was driven by her love of art. She was an immigrant child of a widowed mother. Born Irene Hochfelder, April 26, 1915, the only daughter of Fannie and Armin Hockfelder, in an area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that became Czechoslovakia. She never met her father who was killed during World War I. Concerns about growing anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe following the war, Fannie Hochfelder and her daughter moved to the United States when Friedman was five. Arriving in New York City, they joined her extended family in the Bronx. There they pooled resources s