Berta Margoulies

Berta Margoulies (September 7, 1907 - March 20, 1996) is an American sculptor, born in Lovitz, Poland. Her family migrated to Belgium during World War I and from there to Holland and then England and then to the United States where she graduated from Hunter College. She then began studying sculpture at the Art Students League and from there she moved to Paris where she studied at the Academie Colarossi, Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.[1]

She returned to the United States and in 1937 was one of the founders of the Art Students League.

References

  1. ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986


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