20 Facts About Jake Berthot

Jake Berthot was an American artist whose abstract paintings contained elements of both the minimalist and expressionist styles.

Jake Berthot's style changed in 1995 when he moved his studio from New York City to a rural community in upstate New York.

Jake Berthot received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1983.

Jake Berthot later credited a Pratt instructor, Hank Raleigh, with getting him a start as a professional painter.

Jake Berthot learned much from other artists, particularly Milton Resnick who, as he later said, took him under his wing and through his friendship and guidance I became more aware of the real possibility of painting.

Jake Berthot began his career making abstract paintings in the minimalist tradition.

Jake Berthot would apply a thick painterly surface to large shaped canvases that were seen to employ the reductive means of minimalism, but expressing instead of restraining emotion.

Jake Berthot's work continued to have a painterly, lyrical quality, but he added bright colors to the muted palette of earlier work and introduced rectangular bars and ovals into canvases that were now simple rectangles.

Apart from a brief period spent in Maine, Jake Berthot had lived in New York City from the time he moved there in 1959 until the day in 1994 when he moved his home and studio about 100 miles north of the city to a rural spot in Ulster County along the Hudson Valley in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.

Jake Berthot was given solo shows at the Feiner Gallery, 42 Fifth Avenue, in 1963, and the OK.

Harris Jake Berthot had been supporting himself as an art instructor.

Jake Berthot later said the gallery's owner, Ivan Karp had enabled him to work full-time in his studio by giving him a living allowance equal to his teaching salary.

Jake Berthot showed at the Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, in 1987 and the Nielson Gallery, Boston, in 1998 and 2000.

Jake Berthot's work was included in exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum, the galleries of Muhlenberg and Lafayette colleges, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Jake Berthot's works are owned by the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Jake Berthot received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1983.

Jake Berthot did well enough so that he was offered a job in the fall of 1961.

Jake Berthot was born on March 30,1939, in Niagara Falls, New York.

Jake Berthot's father was Earl H Berthot and his mother Sara Catherine Barr Berthot.

Jake Berthot went through the public school system where he lived and afterwards attended a commercial art school in Pittsburgh.