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Bertha A. Halozan
Born in Graz, Austria; birth date unknown. Has resided in New York City since 1956.
Bertha Halozan loves New York, but her unique vision of New York “the beautiful” sometimes includes the red tile roofs of the Austrian village where she grew up. Halozan paints a pigtailed, blue-eyed Statue of Liberty, surrounded by the busy activities of daily life in New York—often a Mets baseball player, John Franco, is thrown in for good measure in the middle of the harbor. “I went down to the Statue of Liberty, lay in the grass, got happy again, and just started to paint,” she explains of her unusual portrayal.
“When the weather is good, health permitting, I go into the streets and display my art—just to show it,” she says. A former singer, Halozan pastes reviews of a Carnegie Hall recital on the back of her paintings—a recital at which she sang such songs as “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?”
Halozan’s favorite subject matter includes the Statue of Liberty, John Franco, and the Goodyear blimp. Among collectors of her work, the Statue of Liberty is her most popular portrayal. Her paintings are fun to own and likely to appreciate as they find their way into museums.
*this entry was taken from: Rosenak, Chuck and Jan. Contemporary American Folk Art: a Collector’s Guide, p. 39-40. Abbeville Press, New York. 1996
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