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Henrietta Berk"Taos Road" Henrietta Berk, Abstracted Landscape, Bright Red, Expressionistcirca 1966
circa 1966
$25,000
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€21,761.04
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About the Item
Henrietta Berk
Taos Road, circa 1966
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
54 x 47 inches
Provenance
The artist
The Carter Gallery, Los Angeles
Phyllis and Stanley Goldberg, Palm Springs, California (acquired from the above via interior designer Arthur Elrod)
by descent, Jared Medlinsky, Encina, California
Henrietta Berk was a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement taking place in the mid-20th century. She was born in Wichita, Kansas. She and her siblings spent some of their childhood at the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home in San Francisco, after their father left the family and their mother, a seamstress, could not support a family. She attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1955 to 1959, where she studied with Richard Diebenkorn and Harry Krell.
Berk was known for intensely-colored landscapes, portraits, still life and abstract compositions. Her paintings were described as "refreshing in their candor, warm, colorful, exciting with enormous vitality and vibrating with her dominant personality," in the words of one admirer. "With all her squeezed-from-the-tube, knifed-on impastos, there is discipline in her structure, a balance in the pull of color, of texture, an equilibrium of horizontals, verticals, and receding planes and a constant shift from surface to deep space," commented another reviewer in 1972. Berk decorated her home with her own paintings, and works by Berk were part of the US Embassy's art library.
Berk held her first one-woman show in 1959. Beginning in 1960, her artwork was exhibited at galleries and museums throughout California, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, de Young Museum, The Carter Gallery, and the de Saisset Museum. In 1972 she traveled to Israel on a study mission for the Jewish Welfare Federation of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, and made pen-and-ink drawings to benefit the United Jewish Welfare Fund. 1974 she traveled to Mexico City as a guest of the Mexico Travel Association, and made pen-and-ink drawings of her travels for the Oakland Tribune.
In her later life, diabetic retinopathy affected Berk's vision, and she was described as a blind artist. "I can't drive and I can't read very well, but I can paint," she explained in 1988. In 1989 she marked her 70th birthday with a one-woman show at Interart Gallery in San Francisco. "Because I'm seeing less, it forces me to work large, have more contrast and make a bolder statement," she told an interviewer in 1989.
A retrospective exhibit of Berk's work opened at The Hilbert Museum at Chapman University on August 28, 2021, in conjunction with a book on the artist, In Living Color, The Art
Life of Henrietta Berk, developed by Steven Stern and published by Cool Titles.
- Creator:Henrietta Berk (1919 - 1990, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1966
- Dimensions:Height: 56 in (142.24 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:Unique workPrice: $25,000
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841217213812
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