Edith Dinkin is a listed California artist. Very few facts are known about her life. She was born in San Francisco to George A. Culbert and Jessie E. Mosher on February 10, 1917. She died of cancer in Turlock, California on May 21, 1992. From her school days through her third decade, Edith was largely involved in theater work. She loved acting and directing. She began her visual arts studies late— just after her 30th birthday—enrolling first at the California College of Arts & Crafts with Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliviera and Jason Schoener and later at Mills College with Ralph DuCasse, Alexander Napote and Robert Watson. Edith was living on Alameda Island near Oakland in 1940 when she gave birth to a daughter named Deanna Jane (known as Dee Dee). Edith also had a daughter named Tina. Both of her children died of cancer within a few months of one another in 2009. When this family of three moved to Carmel in 1958, Edith became a juried Artist Member of the Carmel Art Association. She founded and maintained a studio/gallery on Mission Street in Carmel until 1971. Ultimately, Edith moved away from Central California to Turlock to teach art at Stanislaus State College. There she married Dr. Lawrence Berkoben (1930-2018), an English professor. Eventually opening a studio/gallery in Modesto, she ended up spending the rest of her art career in Northern California. She also returned to the stage, performing and directing with small theaters and university groups. Edith was always faithful about signing her works as DINKIN, in carefully printed capital block letters, versus cursive. “I’m an unorthodox painter” she said in an interview for the Modesto Bee, “because I think the paint belongs on the canvas—not on me or on the floor.” Painting in oil was Edith’s chief medium, life-long. Among her most successful works were her fog scenes. Some of these captured beach fog along the Carmel and Big Sur coastlines, while others featured the tule fog that is so familiar to residents of the Central Valley. Her works grew much more abstract in her late career. In addition to solo and group shows in Washington state and Texas, this prize-winning artist exhibited throughout California at: University of California, Berkeley; Oakland Art Museum; and San Francisco’s Museum of Art and the DeYoung Museum. In addition, she was represented as far north as British Columbia as well as by the Kinorn Gallery in Seattle, Veltman’s Gallery in Long Beach, Lucien Labaudt Gallery in San Francisco, Contemporary Arts in Berkeley, and Carmel Art Association. Besides the Carmel Art Association, Dinkin’s art-related memberships included the San Francisco Women Artists, East Bay Artists, Diablo Art Association in Walnut Creek (now known as the Diablo Regional Arts Association), Bay Printmakers Society, and the Society of Western Artists.