Beth Hertz Watercolor Painting on Paper of Abstract Composition

Item Details

A watercolor painting on heavy stock paper by well-listed artist Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920). The work depicts an abstract space using gradients of browns with a bold red gradient. Signed in graphite ‘E Hertz 8-78 Elizabeth Hertz’ on the verso. Two additional inscriptions exist to the verso as well. 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; paint marks on the verso.

Dimensions

- measurements of paper.

Item #

16CIN997-952-001