biografía de Berta MARGOULIES (1907-1996)

Lugar de nacimiento: Lowitz, Poland

Direcciones: NYC, 1921-60; Flanders, NJ

Profesión: Sculptor, teacher

Estudios: Hunter College (B.A., 1927); ASL, 1929; Acad. Julian, Paris, with Landowski, 1930; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1930 (fellowship); Robert Laurent; Edward McCartan; Eugene Steinhof.

Exposiciones: Gardner Found. Fellowship, 1929; Sculptors Gld.; PAFA Ann., 1934-60 (prize, 1951); Arch. Lg., 1936 (prize); Nat. Comp. Colonial Foot Postman, 1937 (winner); WFNY, 1939 (prize); AAAL, 1944 (prize); WMAA; CGA; New Jersey State Mus.; CI; Everhart Mus., Scranton, PA; Minneapolis Inst. Art; Silvermine Guild; Arch. Lg.; North Jersey Cultural Council; Forum Gal.; ACA Gal.; Heritage Arts, South Orange, NJ; Springfield Muf. FA; AIC, 1936-43; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1946; Soc. Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, 1947 (prize); Montclair Art Mus., 1952 (prize), 1953 (prize); ACA Gal.;"Women Artists of Am., 1907-64," Newark Mus., 1965; "NYC WPA Art" at Parsons Sch. Design, 1977.

Asociaciones: An Am. Group; NAWA; Sculptors Gld. (first sec., 1937); AEA.

Obra: Willamette Univ., Salem, OR; Des Moines Pub. Schools; WMAA; Syandotte County Mus.; Bonner Spring, KS; Int. Lithographers Union, NYC; Loew Coll.; Ittleson Coll.; Peabody Gardner Coll., Boston; busts, reliefs, groups, carvings, CCNY; WPA works at USPO Bldg., Wash., DC; Monticello, AR; USPO, Canton, NY; commissioned to design, Carol Lane awards, Nat. Safety Council, 1952.

Comentarios: Known for simplified, abstracted human figures with humanistic or religious themes. A friend of direct carvers but preferred modeling, particularly in terra cotta. Teaching: Finch College, NYC, 1939-50s; NY Univ. Adult Educ.; Westbury Country Art School, LI, NY; Five Towns Music and Art Assoc., LI, NY; Somerset AA, Bernardsville, NJ.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; New York City WPA Art, 60 (w/repros.); Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 313 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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