Beth Hertz Watercolor Painting on Paper "Grandma's Ugly Wallpaper"

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A watercolor painting on deckle-edge paper titled Grandma’s Ugly Wallpaper by well-listed artist Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920), created in 1985. The work depicts an abstract color field style scene with layered geometric shapes. The work is dated, titled, and signed by the artist to the verso. The signature uses an “E”, for the artist’s full name, “Elizabeth”. Presented as a loose work without a frame or matting.

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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16CIN997-925