California artist Henrietta Berk was clearly a determined woman. At mid-life, while finishing up raising children, she began seriously painting and against the odds managed to forge a very successful art career in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

This exhibition focuses on the paintings she produced between 1960 and 1980. At that time an artistic explosion, focused on abstract figurative, still life and landscape painting was taking place on the West Coast.

Berk's creative use of color and her ability to edit subject matter to it's essence brought her acknowledgement and praise from those interested in modern American art. It also won her awards at museum exhibitions and resulted in steady gallery sales to collectors in America and abroad.

Gordon T. McClelland, Curator

Image:

Henrietta Berk

"Picnic"

c.1962-64

Oil on canvas

40 x 50"

The Hilbert Collection