The following, submitted February 2005, is from the artist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York October 14, 1941, Theresa Bartol has been exhibiting
her landscape paintings since 1972. She goes into America's woods for inspiration as did the Barbizon painters of France who got their inspiration at the Fontainbleu forest.

Theresa Bartol studied at Brooklyn College where she met and was encouraged by
Philip Pearlstein. From 1967 to 1970 she attended The New York Studio School Of
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture where she worked closely with Milton Resnick,
Estaban Vicente, Philip Guston and Mercedes Matter. She attended the NYSS from
Mondays to Fridays. During the eight-hour day she drew and painted and in the
evenings enjoyed the visits of Meyer Shapiro, Louis Finkelstein, Gretna Cambell, and
many prominent artists of the day available to the students as mentors and
teachers. In the summer of 1970, Theresa Bartol attended a series of lectures on The World Game conducted by Buckminster Fuller at the NYSS.

Bartol has a BA in mathematics and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She spent the
summers of 1967 -1975 in Europe studying the art of France, Italy and Germany
most importantly landscape paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries.

She has exhibited her works at the Delaware Art Museum and has had a solo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art. She was the featured artist in "American Artist Magazine", June 2004 and has appeared in "ARTnews" and the "Artist's Magazine".