Beth Hertz Oil Painting on Canvas "Allegory-Developing"

Item Details

An oil painting on canvas titled Allegory-Developing by well-listed artist Beth Hertz (Dayton/New York, b. 1920), created in 1979. This abstract composition features a variety of colored shapes overlapping and adjacent to one another. To the verso in graphite is the title, year, and artist’s signature, reading the artist’s full name, Elizabeth. Without glass, the item is presented in a silver-tone wooden box frame. The composition is accompanied by a catalog about the artist published by Cincinnati Art Galleries, LLC.

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

- dimples in canvas in upper left and lower left corner; larger than quarter-sized dirt on canvas near top of canvas, above vertical orange rectangle.

Dimensions

- measures frame; canvas measures 63" W x 46.5" H.

Item #

16CIN997-834