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| Selected Permanent Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Queens Museum, in New York
City, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and National Museum of Women in
the Arts, in Washington, D.C. Her work is also in the
permanent collections of the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York , the Bass Museum in
Miami, Florida, the New Jersey State Museum, the Montclair Art
Museum, the Newark Museum, the Allen Museum at Oberlin College,
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, the
San Diego Museum, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel,
the Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell University, Yale
University, the City University of New York, and many other
public, private, and corporate collections.
Selected Exhibitions
Beerman has solo exhibitions at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, (September 2006 to February 2007) and the
Aljira Gallery in Newark, NJ, ( May to July 2006) and upcoming, at the QCC Art Gallery
at Queensborough Community College in Queens, New York in
2007. She was the first woman to receive a solo show
in the history of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her work was
acquired and shown in 2004 in a new acquisitions show at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. It is currently being shown
through 2005 in a new acquisitions show at the Everson
Museum. In addition, she was given two solo
shows at New York’s Graham Gallery, a solo show at the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, a 40-year retrospective at the New Jersey State Museum
in 1991, two solo shows at the Montclair Art Museum, and many others,
both nationally and internationally.
Selected Awards and Honors
In 2005, Miriam’s papers and an oral history were accepted
by the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. She is
a recipient of awards from the Fulbright Program, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and more. She
also received the Childe Hassam Purchase Prize from the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Submitted November 2005 and updated June 2006 by William Jaffe, son of the artist.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A painter and printmaker who has won many awards and honors, Miriam
Beerman was born in Providence, Rhode Island and earned a Fine Arts
degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. She also studied in
New York City with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League, at the
New School for Social Research, with Adja Yunkers and in printmaking in
Paris with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.
In 1991, a forty-year retrospective of her work was held in Trenton,
New Jersey at the State Museum, and in 1987, she received a
Distinguished Artist Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts.
Source
Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
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