Beth Hertz Charcoal Drawing

Item Details

Unknown
Charcoal on paper
Unsigned

Beth Hertz (American; b. 1920)
Untitled; mid to late 20th century
Charcoal on paper
Unsigned
Blind stamp from artist’s estate to lower right

A charcoal drawing on paper by well-listed artist Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920). This figure study depicts a nude woman seated with her arms resting on a table, chin in one palm. The work is unsigned and marked to the lower right with the artist’s embossed estate stamp. The work is presented unframed with a protective acetate sleeve.

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.

Provenance
From the artist’s estate.

Condition

- to Fair; discoloration to paper; upper edge and upper right corner torn away.

Dimensions

Item #

16CIN997-3193