Bertram Hartman (1882-1960) American, Still Life Oil on Board. Signed and dated 1941 bottom right. 

Overall Size: 25 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 19 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. 

Bertram Hartman was born in Junction City, Kansas on April 18th, 1882. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Royal Academies in Munich and Paris, where his modernist paintings of cities, landscapes, nudes, and still lifes brought him early acclaim. He was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, National Society of Mural Painters, American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, and American Water Color Society. Hartman exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915, the Carnegie Institute in 1933, and throughout South America in 1940. His works can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum and Randolph-Macon College for Women. He produced numerous murals as part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, and worked as an instructor for two years at the Annot Art School in New York. He struggled financially and artistically later in life due to worsening long-term health conditions, and died on July 9th, 1960 in his home in New York City. 

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