Mrs. Belfiore grew up in West Philadelphia and attended Friends Select School. She graduated from Moore College of Art and Design and studied medical illustration at Temple University. For several years, she illustrated medical textbooks.

In the 1950s and 1960s she worked for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, illustrating religious publications and painting portraits of important clergymen, including Cardinal John Krol.

She was later art director at Gulf & Western in Swarthmore and Princeton. The company had military contracts, and in 1982 Mrs. Belfiore received a medal from an international film festival for her animation of the gear that helps planes land on aircraft carriers.

In addition, for 20 years until the early 1990s, Mrs. Belfiore also operated the Peanut Gallery, an antique shop in Frazer.

She married artist Gerardo Belfiore in 1951. They met when they were illustrators for an engineering firm in Philadelphia. For several summers, when he returned to his native Italy, she traveled to New Mexico, where she had a studio in Truth or Consequences.

In 1997, her still-life paintings and her husband's social-realism art were exhibited at Sandra Giangiulio Gallery in Phoenixville along with equine paintings by their daughter, Sandra Belfiore-Severson, and abstract nudes by their granddaughter, Kristin Severson.

For the last eight years, Mrs. Belfiore volunteered at Fair Acres Geriatric Center in Lima, playing the piano twice a week. Her daughter said the last song she played, 10 days before her death, was "The Party's Over."

Mrs. Belfiore is survived by her daughter and granddaughter. Gerardo Belfiore died in 2002.

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Kish Funeral Home, Sproul and Lawrence Roads, Broomall.