Provincetown Houses

 

Virginia Berresford

  1902 - 1995 (biography)

1925  

lithograph 

19 x 15" image 

pencil lower right 

not stated, presumed small 

 

National Gallery of Art, 2008.115.869 

ivory wove with heraldic watermark in lower right; indistinct seal in upper right corner for Drawing Board USA 

 

artist 

13746 

$1,800.00 

A large lithograph of Provincetown, Massachusetts from around 1925. Deftly applying the negative space, Berresford creates an elegent compostion illustrating a beachside Cape Cod village, the simplified forms of houses ascending on the matrix to rise above the sea wall and beach in the foreground.

Virginia Berresford was a Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts painter, printmaker and gallery owner working in a modernist style related to Cubism and French artist Fernand Leger. She studied in the US with Charles Martin at Columbia University (he had studied with Arthur Dow and taught Georgia O'Keeffe) and at the Art Students League in New York. She studied in Paris, France at the Academie Moderne with Leger and Amédée Ozenfant.

Berresford exhibited at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris, France; The New Gallery, New York City, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the 1939 World's Fair, and the Pennsylvania Academy. Learn more about the artist in our biography, linked above.