Vintage Aaron Berkman (1900-1991) WPA American Social Realist / Modernist ETCHING / Highly Listed Artist - 

Image About : 4 in. x 6.50 in.   

 Lived and worked in Hartford, Connecticut / New York City / Boston.

Director at the WPA Arts Center in N.Y. He was involved in the Federal Art Project, which was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal.

Although born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1900, he later moved to New York City in 1929. Attended the Connecticut League of Art Students, founded by Charles Noel Flagg, Connecticut's official portrait painter.  He studied on scholarship at the Museum Art School of Boston from 1921–1924, then traveled through Europe for two years (1924–25). He spent time in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Belgium. 

   In 1929, during the Depression, he moved to New York City, continuing a friendship and painting relationship with Milton Avery. Helped established the first artist cooperative gallery in New York City. During 1955 - 60, he was a columnist for ART NEWS.  

   Berkman painted during the summers from 1939-1945 on Monhegan Island, Maine while he spent other summers painting in Rockport, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, Vermont, the Connecticut shore, and the Adirondacks in New York State. Most of his work, however, was done in New York City.

Work is in many Museums, Private collections. Numerous Awards and Publications. Deeply involved  in the Federal Art Project.