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Bertha Landers
'Mountain Trees' — 1930s Southwestern Regionalism

c. 1938

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Bertha Landers, 'Mountain Trees', etching and drypoint, c. 1938, edition not stated but small. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 inches) in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 7 13/16 x 7 1/2 inches; sheet size 11 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches. Ex-Collection Kennedy Galleries, New York. ABOUT THE ARTIST American painter and printmaker Bertha Mae Landers was a native of Winnsboro, Texas. She studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Art Students League of New York under Reginald Marsh and later with Olin Travis at the Art Institute of Dallas and with Henry Varnum Poor and Arnold Blanch. Long employed by the Dallas Public Library, she founded its audiovisual department in 1942. She was active in California in the 1930s, while still living in Dallas, and later settled in that state. In 1956, she founded Landers Film and Video Reviews in Escondido. Landers belonged to several artists’ organizations, including the Southern States Art League, Southern Printmakers, and the Texas Fine Arts Association; she was a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 1939 she was one of eight women who founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, to challenge the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers. During her career, she exhibited widely in Texas and California, and elsewhere in the United States. In 1940 she was honored with a one-woman show at the Dallas Museum of Art. Her graphic work can be found in the museum collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas.
  • Creator:
    Bertha Landers (1911 - 1996)
  • Creation Year:
    c. 1938
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7.82 in (19.87 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Myrtle Beach, SC
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 1008301stDibs: LU532312718012
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