Beth Hertz Abstract Oil Painting "Allegory - Hiatus"

Item Details

Beth Hertz (New York/Ohio, born 1920)
Allegory – Hiatus, 1979
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to verso
Title and date inscribed to verso

A large 1979 oil painting on canvas by well-listed American artist Beth Hertz (New York/Ohio, born 1920). This bold work depicts large, geometric fields of flat, clean, carefully mixed pigments applied to the canvas surface with exact precisions. Artist signature is signed to the verso. This work is mounted in a simple wood frame.

Beth Hertz studied with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and was influenced by early 20th-century Synchromism, a modernist American movement that explored the relationship between color and music. Hertz studied at the Art Students League in New York, the Dayton Art Institute, and received her MFA at Ohio University. Her paintings have been collected by museums as well as private and corporate collections in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and California.

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Condition

- several long cracks to paint surface to upper right quadrant; scattered accretions including drip to lower left and mark to lower right side; wear including finish loss to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame.

Item #

ITMG188418