Nora Kersh was born in Moscow in 1937 to a Russian mother and an American father. She immediately moved to the United State and later attended New York University, the Boston Museum School, and Boston University. She has earned the Halsey B. Knapp Award, the Boit Prize, and a fellowship at MacDowell in New Hampshire. From 1976 to 1978, she attended the National Chalcography of Rome. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions worldwide, including in New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire as well as in Rome and Venice, Italy. She has been published in National Catalog of Artists, Surrealism, and New Art Magazine.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Nora Kersh
Discipline:
Visual Art
Region: Sutri, Viterbo, ITALY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1965
Studios
Cheney
Nora Kersh worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…