Bertha Landers
'Flavor of the Southwest' — 1930s Texas Regionalism
c. 1938

About the Item

Bertha Landers, 'Flavor of the Southwest', aquatint, c. 1938, edition not stated but small. A superb, richly-inked, atmospheric impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (9/16 to 1 3/4 inches); pale hinge stains on the top sheet edge, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 8 15/16 x 11 inches; sheet size 10 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches. Ex-Collection Kennedy Galleries, New York, in the original gallery mat with their label attached. 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: 8.94 in (22.71 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)

Medium:

Aquatint

Movement & Style:

American Modern

Period:

1930-1939