Sarah Berman-She Found Beauty in the Ordinary
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Copyright, 1960, Seven Arts
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By ALFRED WERNER
One of the miracles in our
time is the emergence of artists,
some of them first-rate, from a
milieu that offered them no
stimulation, no 'encouragement
whatsoever. I refer to the scores
of painters and sculptors who
were born in the Jewish quar-
ters of drab little towns in
Eastern Europe, far away from
museums, • and among • people
who usually interpreted the
Jewish religion as forbidding
the visual arts (a misinterpre-
tation of the ban against the
worship of
In this country, such immi
grants as the
"DEATH OF A POET"—Sarah Berman Painting
cloak and
suit manufac-
turer Morris within her range of expres-
Hirshfield or sion; the honest and frugal
the cabinet little men and women that
maker Israel lived, worked and died around
Litwak be- her; chubby children, delicate
came famous birds and insects, but above
as genuine all flowers, flowers of any sort.
"Primitives," The French use the term "na-
but the late ture morte," while our language
Sarah Berman, groups her tender delineations
Sarah Berman who truly be- of roses, zinnias and marigolds
longs in this category, has yet in the category of "still lifes!
to be discovered by American ' Yet the flower bouquets of
museums and private collectors. Mrs. Berman are neither dead
She was born Sarah Ostrov- nor still. They have a life of
sky in 1893 in the Ukrainian their own—they whisper melo-
town of Romny, the daughter of dies than can be heard only by
"Flowers" . . . Painting
a store-keeper who was a "rara those who listen with the ear
by Sarah Berman
avis" himself insofar as he of the soul.
painted a bit. After the po-
groms of 1905, he took his large
family to the United S es.
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B erman, not
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ter was
as a
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Chang
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soul . . . life on the farm
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in upstate New York, and life
Southfield
on and around Union Square,
in downtown Manhattan, where
the Bermans found their per-
manent home (Mrs. Berman
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died there in 1957, but her hus-
band remains in the apartment,
filled with memories of a happy
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marriage, and with the hun-
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dreds of drawings and paint-
ings that she left him, and
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which he offers to a world that
must be educated to acknowl-
edge genius in whatever
humble garment It may reveal
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itself).
During Mrs. Berman's life-
time, her two or three one-man
shows were not overlooked by
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such astute critics as the dean
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of them all, Henry McBride,
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and, more recently, Dore Ash-
ton. The former admired her
"untrammeled i m a g ination,"
while the latter compared the
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artist to a "wild flower."
Mrs. Berman was no more a
Sunday painter, a mere hobby-
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beauty wherever it could be
found, even in subject matter
that might appear common and
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trite to the unpoetic mind, and
had hands that could shape a
welter of conflicting impres-
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