Discipline: Visual Art

Herbert Beerman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Livingston, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958, 1959, 1961, 1967, 1972
Hebert Beerman (1926-2016) was an American painter, visual artist, and educator. Beerman studied at Yale University, the University of Miami and Rutgers University, and went on to teach at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Beerman also was a visiting artist and lecturer at several international venues, including the United States Air Force Art and Museum Branch in Washington, Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, the University Lund in Sweden, Secton Hall University in Offenbach, Germany, and the Hochschulen fur Musik und Darstellung in Stuttgart, Germany. Additionally, he worked as an art consultant for GTE Laboratories. Beerman’s work has been shown in several exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, New Jersey, Australia, China, Cyprus, and Germany, and his work resides in numerous collections, including those of the United States Air Force, the Pentagon Air and Space Museum, and the United States Air Force Academy. Beerman was the recipient of the 1st prize in watercolor at the Saratoga Centennial in 1963, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Saratoga Arts Festival in 1966.

Studios

Adams

Herbert Beerman worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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