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Aaron Berkman American Artist 1901-1991 Cityscape Watercolor 11x7.5”…. aron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. From 1916 to 1918 he attended the Connecticut League of Art Students, founded by Charles Noel Flagg, Connecticut's official portrait painter.[1] He attended the Hartford Art School from 1919 to 1921, alongside his fellow student and lifelong friend, Milton Avery.[2] He studied on scholarship at the Museum Art School of Boston from 1921 to 1924, then traveled through Europe for two years (1924–25). He spent time in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Belgium.[3] In 1929, during the Depression, he moved to New York City, continuing a friendship and painting relationship with Milton Avery. He married Victoria Artese in 1931.[1] Appointed in 1932 by the Works Progress Administration to a directorship position at the Federal Art Project's Contemporary Art Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City,[4] he earned a directors' salary of $23.50 per week. In charge of a 17-member WPA artist faculty, he served as director, art teacher, and lecturer on art history.[1] The school offered free classes and had several hundred students.[4] During this period, with Herman Baron as Director, Berkman established the A.C.A. Gallery in New York City at 52 West 8th St., the first artist cooperative gallery in New York City.[1] After retiring from the 92nd street Y in 1965, he established the Bercone Gallery with Janet Cohen in New York City, where he continued to teach, paint, and exhibit.[5] He received fellowships to Yaddo in 1956, and the Huntington Hartford Foundation (Pacific Palisades, California) in 1958.[1] Berkman also wrote a regular column "Articus Comments" for Art Front with Herman Baron, as the editor. He wrote two books, Art and Space, which was published in 1948 by Social Sciences Publishers and The Functional Line, which was published in 1952 by Thomas Yoseloff Publishers.[3] During 1955 - 60, he was a columnist for ART NEWS,[4] writing a column entitled, "Amateur Standing". Berkman was also on the Advisory Committee with Steve Wheeler at "THE FOUR O'CLOCK FORUMS LECTURE SERIES", 1953-55.[1] Berkman painted during the summers from 1939 to 1945 on Monhegan Island,[3][6] Maine while he spent other summers painting in Rockport, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, Vermont, the Connecticut shore, and the Adirondacks in New York State. Most of his work, however, was done in New York City. (From Wikipedia). The work is unframed