Russo, Jane O. (Jane Oppenheim), 1946-
Biography
Jane Russo is the great-granddaughter of Charles and Jenny Charsky Spivak. Jane Russo was born in Denver in 1946 to Nelson and Ruth Strauss Oppenheim in 1946. Ruth Strauss was the daughter of Herman and Deena Spivak Strauss and Deena was the daughter Dr. Charles and Jenny Charsky Spivak. Charles Spivak was a medical doctor and the long-time secretary of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society. Jane Russo became interested in art when she regularly visited her uncles Dave and Dan Spivak at the Spivak Art Store in Cherry Creek. She graduated from the University of Colorado and received a Phd in environmental design from Irkutsk State University in Russia. Jane Oppenheim Russo created and donated two printed copies of her watercolor paintings and a sculpture.