Landers, Bertha Mae. (1907-1996). B: Winnsboro. D: San Diego, California.Painter, printmaker. Bertha Mae Landers is remembered as a painter and etcher and for her work at the Dallas Public Library. Landers was born and raised in Winnsboro, Texas. She attended the Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas (1928-31), receiving a bachelor of science in art. In addition, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and at the Arts Students League of New York under Reginald Marsh. At the Dallas art Institute, she was a student under Olin Travis and studied under Henry Varnum Poor and Arnold Blanch. Landers worked for the Dallas Public Library where she established the audiovisual department in 1942. While based in Dallas, Landers was also active in California from the 1930s and later settled there. In 1956 she founded the Landers Film and Video Reviews, Escondido, California. Landers died in San Diego, California in 1996. Studied: Sul Ross State Teachers College, Alpine (B.S., Art, 1931); Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (1938, 1940); Art Students League of New York (1939); Reginald Marsh; Arnold Blanch; Adolph Dehn; Henry Varnum Poor; Boardman Robinson; Frank Klepper; Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis. Member: Dallas Art Association; Texas Fine Arts Association; Dallas Print Society; Southern States Art League; Los Angeles Art Association; Klepper Sketch/Art Club. Texas Fine Arts Association; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (founding member); Dallas Artists League; Southern States Art League; Texas Artists Group; Dallas Print Society; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C; Southern Printmakers; The Eight. Exhibitions: El Paso, 1933, (solo); Oakland Art Gallery, California, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, Mexican Church (lithograph), 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942; Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1938, 1939, West Texas (lithograph)(prize), Highway Specification, 1940, Texas Cowboy (prize), 1941, Cheyenne Mountain (lithograph) (prize), On the Rio Grande, 1942, Mexican Funeral (prize), Approaching Storm Acapulco, (lithographs), Landscape, 1943, Mining Town (print) (prize), Beaver Dam, Soldiers Without Uniform (print) 1944, Survival, Forgotten (prize) (watercolors),Market Day (prize) (etching), 1945, Red Rock Ridge Victor-Colorado Slug's Holiday (prize), Flavor of the Southwest (etching) 1947, Vesper Time, A Trout Cove (watercolor), 1948, Dressmaker (prize), Gatherers (prize); North Texas StateDenton, 1936; Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1941, Re-potting, 1942, Approaching Storm, Funeral (prize) (lithographs), without Uniform, (lithograph), 1945, Follow the Foot Trail, 1946, Street Scene-Santa1947, Floriculture, Repression's; Centennial Exposition, Mountain Trees,(etching); Dallas Print Society, 1938, 1940; Women Artists of Dallas County, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938; Klepper Sketch/Art Club, Dallas, 1936, 1938, (two lithographs), Landscape, 1939; No-Jury Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Landscape; State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1939, Nude at Rest, Dallas Art Carnival, 1939, 1940, (etchings & lithographs), 1941; Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Denver Art Museum, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944; Southern Printmakers,1940, 1941, 1942; Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Early Morning; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, (solo); Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers,1941, Waiting for the Grand March (lithograph), Mexican Funeral, Circus Zebra, Poster-Keep Out (lithographs), Early Morning, Victor Colorado, Texas Cowboy, Cheyenne Mountain, On the Rio Grande, 1942, Approaching Storm-Acapulco (lithographs), 1943, 1944, Soldiers Without Uniforms, Market Day (etching),Landscape, Evening (aquatint), 1947, Ad Infinitum, 1948, 1951, 1952; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1941, 1942, Todos Santos (lithograph), 1943, Bounteous Earth (lithograph), (prize), 1944, Market Day (etching), 1945, Evening, Proud Papa (aquatints) (prize), 1947, Approaching Storm-Acapulco, Circus Horse (lithographs), New Mexico Landscape (aquatint); Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1941, 1944, Market Day (prize), 1945, Approaching Storm-Acapulco (print); Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1942, (solo), 1946, (solo); National Academy of Design, 1943, 1944; Laguna Beach Art Association, California, 1943, 1944, 1945; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1943, Early Mass (honorable mention), 1944, Mining Town (honorable mention), 1945;Texas Panorama Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1943, Near Ft. Davis (mixed media) and American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1944, Near Ft. Davis; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1944, (joint with Jerry Bywaters and Alexandre Hogue); North Texas Artists Exhibition, Telenews Theater, Dallas, 1944, 1945, If Houses Could Talk, Bounteous Earth (lithograph), Five Ladies Exhibition, 1947; Southern States Art League, 1944, Western Slope, Market Day (etching) (prize), Soldiers Without Uniform (lithograph); Collins Art Gallery, Fort Worth, 1944, (solo), 1945, (solo); Fort Worth Art Association, 1946; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, 1945, (solo); Texas Artists Group, 1945, Near Fort Davis, 1946, Mountain Meadows; Corpus Christi Caller-Times Exhibition, 1945, Ad Infinitum, 1946; Texas Artist Group,Dallas, 1945; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1946, (solo); The Eight, Scott Hall, Dallas, 1946, Beaver Dam; Tyler Art Club, 1946; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, 1946, (solo); Sul Ross State Teacher College, Alpine, 1947, (solo); Centennial Museum Corpus Christi, Prints from the Permanent Collection of the Corpus Christi Art Foundation, 1948; Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1948, Ad Infinitum (serigraph) (prize); Coronet Theater, Dallas, 1949, (solo); Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1953, (solo), 1955, (solo); Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1953; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1975, 1976, 1977; Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 1986; Texas Printmakers, 1940-1965, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1990; Prints of the Fort Worth Circle: 1940-1960, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 1992; Women Artists of Texas, 1850-1950, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, 1993. Collections: Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Forgotten, Market Day, C-Bar Ranch, Soldiers Without Uniform, West Texas (lithograph); University of Texas, Austin; South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Ad Infinitum; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio; Southern Methodist University, Dallas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth;Denver Art Museum; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.