Original Artist Proof Beatrice Berlin 1975

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Great graphic print from Philadelphia based artist Beatrice Berlin (1922-1999). ia. She studied at the Moore College of Art, the … Read more Great graphic print from Philadelphia based artist Beatrice Berlin (1922-1999). ia. She studied at the Moore College of Art, the Fleischer Art Memorial, and the Philadelphia College of Art, as well as with printmakers Sam Maitin and Hitoshi Nakazato. World War II put an end to her pursuit of fine art. During the war, she worked as a mechanical draftsperson and then focused on clothing design. Marriage and child rearing put her career on hold until the early 1960s.

In 1963, Berlin enrolled in what she thought was a drawing class at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which turned out to be an introduction to printmaking. Immediately inspired, she eventually learned every printmaking medium available at the school: woodcut, intaglio, collagraphy, and serigraphy. She found her stride in collagraphy and focused on sparse, deeply embossed works with areas of delicate texture. Of particular inspiration to Berlin was Japanese modernism. Between 1965 and 1989, there were over forty solo exhibitions of her work and she participated in as many group shows, including at the National Academy of Design, the Pratt Graphics Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and in Tokyo, Japan. Her work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the University of Philadelphia Museum of Art. See less