Unique Helen Gerardia Painting 1950-60s acrylic on canvas fmr pres NAWA 64"by52"
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ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 64 INCHES BY 52 INCHES THIS AUCTION IS FOR ONE OF THE FOUR CANVAS'S. YOU CAN BUY TWO THREE OR ALL FOUR......Helen Gerardia (1903-1988) BIOGRAPHY Helen Gerardia was born in Ekaterinislav, Russia, in 1913, and emigrated to the U.S. sometime in the first or second quarter of the twentieth century. She was a first grade teacher in the New York public schools who turned to art as a second vocation, and achieved exceptional success. She began her study of art the Art Students League in 1947. She was awarded a two-year scholarship at the Nahum Tschacbasov workshop, and continued her studies with Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann School and Brooklyn Museum of Art. Gerardia won a watercolor prize at the Village Art Center and had a watercolor show there. By 1951, she received a prize for a work in oil that resulted in an exhibition in this medium at the Center and soon became known for her hard-edged abstraction graphics. Later that year, she participated in her first exhibition held at the 8th Street Playhouse. Following her first exhibition, Gerardia participated in 125 one-man shows, and was collected by 42 major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which purchased 8 of her graphics in 1963. Her traveling shows of paintings and graphics were shown in over 150 museums, colleges and art centers in all 50 states.
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