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Virginia Berresford

Virginia Berresford (1902 - 1995) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Virginia Berresford is known for Abstract sea-landscape and still life painting.

Virginia Berresford, 1902-1995, was a Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts painter, printmaker and gallery owner working in a modernist style related to that of Georgia O'Keeffe.  She also worked in Paris, France.  She studied under Charles Martin at Columbia University, and at the Art Students League and Academie Moderne in Paris.  She exhibited at the Bernheim Gallery, Paris, France; The New Gallery, New York City, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the World's Fair 1939; the Pennsylvania Academy, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Salons of America.

Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum; Detroit Museum; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts.

Active on Cape Cod, Berresford was an active part of the group that raised the money to locate the local Martha's Vineyard Art Association facility.  And in the early 1950s, in Edgartown, she opened the Island's first commercial art gallery.

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