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1898 Nice, France - 1970 New York. Known for: Murals, portrait, landscape and genre painting.
Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known... Read full biography
Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known for her modernist watercolors and for her abstract Depression-era, WPA murals that went against the... Read full biography
Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known for her modernist watercolors and for her abstract Depression-era, WPA murals that went against the grain of the prevalent American-Scene style. Among her work is the mural Home Life (1934), which she painted in Coit Tower in San Francisco, and which showed much influence of her teacher, Raoul Dufy.... Read full biography
Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known for her modernist watercolors and for her abstract Depression-era, WPA murals that went against the grain of the prevalent American-Scene style. Among her work is the mural Home Life (1934), which she painted in Coit Tower in San Francisco, and which showed much influence of her teacher, Raoul Dufy. It was an era when Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist, had strong influence among prominent Northern California female muralists such as Emmy Lou Packard and Marian Simpson, but Berlandina was unique for holding to her own style and for rebelling against... Read full biography
Jane Berlandina, a painter, muralist, set designer for the San Francisco Opera House, and lecturer, was a highly visible artist in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. She was especially known for her modernist watercolors and for her abstract Depression-era, WPA murals that went against the grain of the prevalent American-Scene style. Among her work is the mural Home Life (1934), which she painted in Coit Tower in San Francisco, and which showed much influence of her teacher, Raoul Dufy. It was an era when Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist, had strong influence among prominent Northern California female muralists such as Emmy Lou Packard and Marian Simpson, but Berlandina was unique for holding to her own style and for rebelling against the Rivera 'groupie' mentality among her female peers. Berlandina was born in Nice, France, and s... Read full biography
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Keywords (34)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •California Style
Art Subject
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Raoul Dufy
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Coit Tower Muralist, San Francisco
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Watercolor Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art