Catherine Little Bert, director and owner of Bert Gallery, has passionately researched and written on the subject of local artists since the gallery's founding in 1985. The fertile artistic community of the late 19th century Providence has been a focal point of her research and exhibitions.
Sketches, an art journal funded by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and co-authored with LJ McElroy, includes early research by Bert on the early Providence Art Club artists and the important Rhode Island women artists of the 19th century. Recent lectures Bert has given include The Myth of Sydney Burleigh at the Little Compton Historical Society and Artists and Patrons of the 1901 Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the Providence Art Club.
Catherine Little Bert received a B.A. from Providence College and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut. She has served as a Board of Trustee at the Rhode Island Historical Society, Co-President of Gallery Night Providence and Chair of the National Advisory Board at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Currently, Bert is heading up the “Permanent Collection Initiative” a National Advisory Board project at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She has consulted at exhibitions at the Fall River Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society, Newport Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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