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Bernece Berkman-Hunter

Bernece Berkman-Hunter (1911 - 1988) was active/lived in Illinois.  Bernece Berkman Hunter is known for Serigraphs, etching, painting, design.

Born in Chicago, Bernece Berkman-Hunter became a painter and graphic artist in a style that combined Cubism and Expressionism. She was the child of Jewish immigrant parents, and her artistic career was bound up with her Jewish heritage and a strong commitment to political activism.

She was a member of the radical American Artists Conference and joined a printmaking group that circulated left-wing pamphlets advocating that artists and writers crusade for social reform. One of her themes was the 1937 steel strike in South Chicago where police and workers clashed and many people were injured and several killed. Her oil painting about the strike titled "Current News" had "angular shapes, compressed space, vibrant color, and distorted forms" (Kennedy 91)---abstraction that conveyed the oppression and tension of the workers.

Berkman-Hunter studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School of Social Research, and Columbia University and also took lessons from Stuart Davis   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4112 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Bernece Berkman-Hunter

   Publications  Book References:  11
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Bernece Berkman-Hunter
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Visions of the American Heartland April 2000 Maciejunes, Nannette Yes
11 Book References for Bernece Berkman-Hunter
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1959 Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies 718 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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