Virginia Beresford (American 1904-1995)
Savoy Dancers
2 ink wash on paper, 1938,both signed Beresford in pencil
22 x 15'' each (56 x 38 cm.)
Biography
Virginia Berresford, 1902-1995, was a Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts painter, printmaker and gallery owner working in a modernist style.
She studied under Charles Martin at Columbia University, and at the Art Students League and Academie Moderne in Paris.
She exhibited at the Bernheim Gallery, Paris, France; The New Gallery, New York City, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the World's Fair 1939; the Pennsylvania Academy, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Salons of America.
Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum; Detroit Museum; and Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts.