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An example of work by Roberta S. Rosenthal
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Biography from AskART:
| Roberta Rosenthal says that her two major influences were Pierre Redoute and
Georgia O'Keefe. Early in her career she was mentored by artist and sculptor Nathaniel Kaz. Her early paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and Sonia Delauney.
She attended the High School of Art and Design with peer artists Terry Winters,
Bob Pardo and Ruth Marten. After working as a staff artist for corporations and art
studios, Rosenthal had a love of design and illustration that led her, in 1976, to open her own studio, RSR Designs in Manhattan. She translated her fine artworks into commercial art as postage stamps, for the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands. Her art has been published in the New York Times, United Nations Choices, Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Kitchen Gardening, National Gardening, Simon & Schuster, and Avon Books. Additional clients include Victoria's Secret, Croscill Home Fashion, Echo Design Group, Wendy Gell Jewelry, Disney, Art Kraft Strauss Sign Corporation, and Art Scroll Publishing Corporation.
It was at this time she befriended Charmion von Weigand and abstract artist Ce
Roser. Ce Roser catalogued Charmion's work and created a film, "The Circle of Charmion von Weigand", a documentary memoir of the artist for WNET-TV NY Video Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Director and Editor was Mark
Brownstone, Roberta Rosenthal's husband.
From 1981 -1985 Rosenthal studied sumi-e painting with Koho Yamamoto and
Chinese painting with master Kou Liang Jui bringing an Asian influence into her
paintings and an award from the Asia Society. Simultaneously she was the executive director of the Graphic Artists Guilds job placement center. Her interest in business
increased, and she studied art representation with Elaine Sorel who represented illustrator Edward Sorel. Roberta graduated from the American Women's Economic Development Corporations business program.
By the mid 1980s, her paintings developed into detailed botanical artworks. She studied botanical art at the New York Botanical Gardens with Anne Ophelia Dowden and Kevin Nicolay. In 1986 she became an instructor at the NYBG's continuing adult education department where she continues to teach botanical art. She also is an art instructor at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY and at the Catskill Art Society in Hurleyville, NY. She has taught botanical art at the Horticultural Society of NY and at Star Gallery, Middletown, NY.
Roberta's art studio is located in Bloomingburg, New York. She continues to work in oils, gouache, watercolor and pastels focusing on flowers and landscapes.
EDUCATION:
NYBG, Botanical Art Certificate Program, 1986-03
AWED, Business Program, Graduate, 1979
Art Students League, 1970
Fashion Institute of Technology, AAS 1969
High School of Art & Design NY, 1967 Regents Award
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS:
The New York Times, review and editorial art. 1984 - 1990
The Riverdale Press, review s and editorial art. 1998
Art Times, review. 1999
Fine Gardening, editorial art. 1989 - 1998
Horticulture, editorial art. 1988
Jewish Week, reviews. 1998
Westchester News, reviews. 1998
The New York Post, reviews. 1989
Kitchen Gardening, editorial art. 1995
1001 Home Ideas, editorial art 1984
National Gardening, editorial art. 1985- 1991
First Magazine, editorial art . 1985
Choices United Nations Magazine, editorial art. 1994
Philatelic Monthly, reviews. 1984 - 1998
Times Herald Record, reviews. 2001 - 2004
River Reporter, reviews. 2003- 2004
Sullivan County Democrat, reviews. 2004
Delaware Valley Artist Association. 2004
COMMISSIONED INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE STAMPS:
Plants of the Bible, Sheet of Stamps for Liberia, 1994
Orchids of Palau, Series of 5 stamps, Japan Expo, 1990
Exotic Mushrooms of Palau, block of 4 stamps, 1989
Indigenous Plants of Palau, Full sheet of 12 Stamps, additional sheet of 4
stamps, 1988
Medicinal Plants of the Marshall Islands, block of 4 stamps, 1986
Floral Bouquet, International Year of Peace United Nations 50th Anniversary,
Marshall Islands, block of 4 stamps, 1986
Statue of Liberty, International Year of Peace United Nations 50th
Anniversary, Marshall Islands, 1986
First Birth Plants and Flowers of Palau, block of 4 stamps, 1984
SPECIAL AWARDS
Mona Lisa Award. Select Web site Award of the Month, Learning About Leonardo. January, 2004
Grant Award. Bronx Council of the Arts, YW-YMHA, Riverdale, New York. 1998
2nd Prize and Honorable Mention. Asia Society, Chinese Painting Competition
and Exhibit. 1985
Honor Award. Women In Design, Fashion Institute of Technology. 1984
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Botanical Art and Landscapes. Blue Victorian Gallery, Jeffersonville, NY
2004 Landscapes and Flowers. Beck Gallery, Sullivan Co. Museum, Hurleyville, NY
2003 Member Solo Exhibition. Society of Illustrators, Museum of Illustration, New York City
1997 Botanical Art and More. Fred and Anna Landau Gallery, Riverdale YM-YWHA, New York
1989 Magazines to Stamps. Horticultural Society of New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 Holiday Art Exhibit. The Blue Victorian Gallery, Jeffersonville, New York. Juried
2003 Artists in the Garden. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY. Invitational
2003 Featured Artist. Catskill Artists Gallery, Liberty, New York. Juried
2003 Our Own Show. Society of Illustrators, New York, Invitational
2003 Women Artists of the Catskills. Curated by Cortland Jessup, CAS, Hurleyville NY. Juried
2003 Come See Our Etchings and Drawings. Star Gallery, Middletown, NY.
2003 Spring Paintings. Star Gallery, Middletown, NY.
2003 Watercolor a Group Exhibition. Westchester Art Workshop, NY. Three
person Invitational
2002 Star Project Mask Exhibition and Auction. Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Our Own Show. Society of Illustrators, New York. Invitational
2002 Open Studio Event. Catkill Art Society, New York. Invitational
2002 Fall For Art. Wiltwyck Golf Club,Kingston, NY. Juried
2002 Holiday Art Show. Catskill Art Society, Sullivan County Museum, NY
2002 I Love the Hudson Valley. Star Gallery, Middletown, New York, Juried
2001 Members Exhibition. Catskill Art Society, Sullivan County Museum, New York, Invitational
2001 Botanical Art. Catskill Mountain Gallery, Hunter, New York. Invitational
1999 Our Own Show, Society of Illustrators, New York. Invitational
1999 Botanical Art. Catskill Mountain Gallery, Hunter, New York. Invitational
1998 Botanical Art. Garden Education Center, Greenwich, Connecticut. Invitational
1997 Instructor's Exhibit. New York Botanical Garden, New York. Invitational
1997 Botanical Art. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Beth Abraham Gallery, NY, Invitational
1996 Botanical Art. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Beth Abraham Gallery, NY, Invitational
1996 Botanical Art. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Bartlett Arboretum, CT
1995 New York Flower Show. Horticultural Society of New York. Juried
1991 Focus on Nature I. New York State Museum, Albany, New York. Juried
1990 Annual Art Show. Black Rose Gallery, Bronx, New York. Invitational
1984 Invitational Show . Central Connecticut State University, New York
1984 Chinese Painting Competition/Show. Asia Society, New York
1983 Alumni Show. High School of Art and Design, New York. Invitational
1982 Botanical Sumi-e Exhibit. Koho Gallery, New York. Juried
1981 Botanical Sumi-e Valentine Show. Koho Gallery, New York. Invitational
1980 Botanical Sumi-e Exhibit. Koho Gallery, New York. Invitational
1980 Alumni Exhibit. Fashion Institute of Technology, NY. Invitational
ASSOCIATIONS
Society of Illustrators
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
American Society of Botanical Artists
Catskill Art Society
Fashion Institute of Technology Alumni Association
High School of Art & Design Alumni Association
American Women's Economic Development Association
Written and submitted by the artist, February 2004
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