Eleanore Berman

Eleanore Berman was born on September 2, 1928 in Forest Hills, New York. She was the only child of Elsie and Dr. Isidore Berman. From a very young age, she was interested in art, music and biology. At 16, she enrolled at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where she studied painting with Josef Albers and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. In 1948, at the age of 20, she sailed on the QE2 to Paris where she pursued her love of painting in the studio of the legendary Cubist painter, Fernand Leger. Later that year, her family moved to Los Angeles, California. She received her BA in Fine Art from UCLA in 1950. Eleanore married Frederick M. Nicholas in 1951, while Fred was still in law school. Together, they had three children, Deborah, Jan and Anthony E. Nicholas. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1964. Eleanore spent much of her life traveling the world and living bi-coastally between her home in Beverly Hills and her loft in lower Manhattan. She spoke French, German and Spanish. As an artist, Eleanore had prolific 30-year exhibition history both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her work is in several major permanent collections including LACMA, the Hammer/UCLA Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as many corporate collections. Examples of her work may be seen at eleanoreberman.com.

Eleanore died on August 29, 2004 at the age of 75.

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