Art
Congress Hall Folk Art by Joan Berkey, Architectural Historian and Folk Artist
- Item Number
- 123
- Estimated Value
- 25 USD
- Sold
- 50 USD to lsbf9964c
The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY (tax ID 221539642) on behalf of the winner.
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Print of oil painting of "Congress Hall in 1876" which is based on an 1876 black-and-white etching (also shown). The image size of the print is 7" x 10.5" plus it has a one inch white border. Ready to frame!
Joan Berkey, a Cape May County resident, is an architectural historian with over 30 years of experience researching and writing about historic buildings, most of them in New Jersey. She is also a folk artist, an avocation she set aside while raising two children and having a full-time career working with historic buildings. With her children grown, she returned to her interest in American folk art. She has taken folk art lessons from her mother, Ruth Berkey, who was an Early American Decorator and a long-time member of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. From her, she learned false-graining, primitive painting, tole, and theorem painting (stenciling on white cotton velvet or paper). She also took lessons in drawing and oil painting from several other instructors and focused on realistic paintings inspired by the American greats of John Singleton Copley and the Peale family. Berkey specializes in historic townscapes, which are oil paintings inspired by 19th-century black and white etchings of cities, towns, and villages.
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Donated By:
Joan Berkey
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