Anita Robertson Beach Abstract Figural Oil Painting, 1968

Item Details

Anita Robertson Beach (American, 1930 – 2020)
Untitled (abstract figural), 1968
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower left and lower right
Artist information to verso

Anita Robertson Beach aspired to be a creative and impactful artist and teacher. Before teaching art at the Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, she received the Laverne-Noyes scholarship and majored in art education at the University of Wisconsin. She studied under lithographer Dean Meeker, who inspired her to become an artist. Beach enjoyed exploring a variety of mediums including weaving and became a lifelong member of the Cincinnati Weavers Guild. She also studied metal arts such as welding at Thomas Moore University. In 1952 one of her serigraphs was chosen to be exhibited in the Library of Congress. Her works of art have been exhibited in various institutions nationally.

• Item not examined outside of mounting

Condition

- dust accretions to surface; wear to frame; minor wear and dust accretions to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 30.0" W x 36.0" H.

Item #

ITMG933190