Beatrice Winn Berlin (

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Beatrice Winn; May 27, 1922 – August 11, 1999) was an American printmaker, painter, and teacher.

Early life and education

Beatrice Winn Berlin was born as Beatrice Winn on May 27, 1922, in

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, Pennsylvania, to parents Pauline (

Neubauer) and Benjamin Winn. She attended

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, Fleischer Art Memorial, and Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts (now University of the Arts, Philadelphia), and was a student under Samuel Maitin, Victor Lasuchin, Hitoshi Nakazato, and Kenjilo Nanao. In 1945, she married Herbert Edward Berlin, and paused her arts education to raise their two daughters. In 1963, Berlin enrolled in an introduction to printmaking course at

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, which inspired her to pursue further courses in printmaking.

Career

She found inspiration in

collagraphy Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood) to create a plate. Once inked, the plate becomes a tool for imprinting the design onto p ...

, and Japanese modernism. In the late 1960s, Berlin began teaching drawing, painting, and printmaking at various community colleges in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She married Warren Joseph Sturmer in 1971. In 1976 she moved to the

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, opened an art studio in

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. She taught printmaking at Judah L. Magnes Museum (now Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life) at the

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. By 1980, Berlin shifted her focus away from collagraphy and towards intaglio. Berlin was a member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Print Club, the American Color Print Society, and the California Society of Printmakers. Her work is in museum collections, including at the

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, and the

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. She died on August 11, 1999, in California.

References

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