Beth Hertz Mix Media on Paper of Abstract Scene

Item Details

A mixed media composition using watercolor and graphite on on deckle-edge heavy stock paper by well-listed artist Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920). The work depicts an abstract space using deep black and grey space with graphite linework. Signed in graphite ‘E. Hertz 4 – 78’ to the verso. The painting is presented unmounted and without 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.

Condition

- some wear around edges of paper; puncture marks from previous mounting exist around the edges of the paper; some paint marks exist on the verso.

Dimensions

- measurements of paper.

Item #

16CIN997-910