Beth Hertz 1977 Oil Painting on Canvas "California I"

Item Details

Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920)
California I, 1977
Oil on canvas
Signed and titled to verso

An oil painting on canvas titled California I by well-listed American artist Beth Hertz (b. 1920). Created in 1977, the work depicts an abstract and colorful scene. A green rhombus-like shape hangs over a pink-yellow gradient with stacked red, orange, and blue forms to the lower edge. To the verso are a pair of descriptive labels and the artist’s signature; each reads the artist’s full name, Elizabeth. The work is presented in a silver-tone wooden box 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

- shallow dimple near the center of the green rhombus-like shape; dime-sized light brown smudge near blue triangle in lower left corner; pair of thin graphite colored lines along stretcher bar on left and right sides of piece, each measuring 3" long; chipped off portion of frame to verso lower left.

Dimensions

- measures frame; canvas 37.5" W x 56.5" H.

Item #

18DCC632-019