Bertha Luce Emery, 1873 - 1957 |
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Ackerman Creek, Ukiah 1919
Watercolor, 7 x 11
$2,000
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Bertha Luce Emery was born near Chico on February 11, 1873. At age four she moved to Ukiah with her parents. Bertha married Forest Emery in 1892 and for 42 years, she ran a millinery business in Ukiah. Bertha painted in her leisure time. A pupil of Grace Hudson and Lorenzo P. Latimer, she painted oils and watercolors of the flowering fields and mountains of Mendocino County. She exhibited with the San Francisco Art Association. |
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