Discipline: Visual Art

Vivian Berman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Lexington, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981
Vivian Berman (1928-2016) was an American printmaker and designer based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Vivian was born in New York and graduated from The Cooper Union in 1950. Her artwork has been exhibited worldwide and is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Library of Congress.

Studios

Putnam

Vivian Berman worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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