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Esmé Berman (1929 – 4 June 2017[1]) was a South African art historian.[2] She earned a degree in visual arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1946.[3] In 1952, she married Hymie Berman, an art collector.[4] She is best known for writing Art and Artists of South Africa, the first comprehensive reference work on South African artists, in 1970.[5] Witswatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on Berman in 2016 to recognize her contributions to South African art.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Esmé Berman". SAHO. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ Barron, Chris (11 June 2017). "Obituary: Esmé Berman, pioneering historian of SA art and artists". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Esmé Berman". South African History Online. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Barron, Chris (11 June 2017). "Obituary: Esmé Berman, pioneering historian of SA art and artists". South African Sunday Times. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Berman, Esmé (1970). Art and artists of South Africa: an ill. biographical dictionary and hist. survey of painters and graphic artists since 1875. Cape Town: Balkema. OCLC 310609819.
- ^ Linde, Steve (7 May 2016). "Wits honors Esmé Berman for contribution to S. African art". Jerusalem Post.
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