Berta Margoulies

Berta Margoulies (September 7, 1907 – March 20, 1996) was an American sculptor, born in Lovitz, Poland. Her family migrated to Belgium during World War I and from there to Holland and then England and then to the United States where she graduated from Hunter College. She then began studying sculpture at the Art Students League and from there she moved to Paris where she studied at the Academie Colarossi, Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

She returned to the United States and in 1937 was one of the founders of the Sculptors Guild. In 1939, she executed a relief sculpture at the United States Post Office, Canton, New York. The post office and sculpture was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

She was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

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