Jake berthot biography
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Jake Berthot papers, circa 1958-1994, bulk 1970-1992
Collection Information
Size: 3.9 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Jake Berthot measure 3.9 linear feet and date from 1958-1994, with bulk dates from 1970-1992. The papers document Berthot's career as a painter and art professor through correspondence, writings, personal business files, printed material, photographic material and artwork.
Biographical/Historical Note
Jake Berthot (1939-2014) was an abstract painter and art professor from New York. Born in Niagra Falls, NY, Berthot grew up in Clearfield, Pennsylvania before moving to New York City after high school and enrolling at Pratt Institute in 1960. In 1961 he began teaching classes at Pratt which marked the beginning of his career as an art professor. Berthot subsequently taught classes at Cooper Union (197481), Yale University (1982-92), the University of Pennsylvania (1993) and the School of Visual Arts (1994 -2013). Read More
Provenance
Donated 1996 by Jake
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Jake Berthot’s Recent Work
IN 1975 JACK TWORKOV was expounding the notion of a painted screenplay. The painter was meant to outline a series of operations analogous to the outline of shots that comprises a screenplay; then he would paint within the confines of this preestablished “text.” This is a technique for structuring the immanent or taming the aleatoric, and Tworkov’s painting was a clear example of the method, but he also considered that Jake Berthot’s painting of that time participated in this mode.
So I was not surprised to find Berthot included in a show that summer at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum entitled “Fundamental Painting.” The theme of the show was work that focused on a limited aspect of painting and stressed an iconography of self-referentiality. This vaguely defined, potentially all-inclusive, theme (which is more or less close to the received definition of modernism) was used to band together some of the new bestse
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March 20, 1939 – månad 30, 2014
Jake Berthot was born in Niagara Falls, NY in 1939. He attended the New School for Social Research and Pratt Institute in the early 1960’s. He exhibited regularly in New York since the early 1970’s with the O.K. Harris, the McKee Gallery and currently with the Betty Cuningham galleri . Berthot was included the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual in 1969 and again in 1973; The Corcoran Biennial in 1975; the Venice Biennale, 1976; New Painting – New York at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1979; American Art: 1950 to the Present at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1979; New Works on Paper in 1981 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1984; New York/Beijing, Beijing Art Institute, Beijing, China in 1987; Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S.1, Long Island City,