Bertha Mae Landers is remembered as a painter and etcher and for her work at the Dallas Public Library. Landers was born and raised in Winnsboro, Texas. She attended the Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas (1928-31), receiving a bachelor of science in art. In addition, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and at the Arts Students League of New York under Reginald Marsh. At the Dallas art Institute, she was a student under Olin Travis and studied under Henry Varnum Poor and Arnold Blanch.

Landers worked for the Dallas Public Library where she established the audiovisual department in 1942. While based in Dallas, Landers was also active in California from the 1930s and later settled there. In 1956 she found...