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Avis Berman

Avis Berman is a writer, curator, and historian of American art, architecture and culture. She is the author of numerous books including Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler; and Edward Hopper's New York. She was also co-author and editor of Katharine Kuh's memoir, My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator.

Since 2001, Avis Berman has overseen the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation's oral history project.

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For 150 years a crenelated Gothic Revival castle in Connecticut has housed an art collection that was astonishing for its time—and ours
The ‘kast’, September 1991 | Vol. 42, No. 5
American art was hardly more than a cultural curiosity in the early years of this century. Now it is among the world’s most influential, and much of the credit belongs to a self-made woman named Juliana Force.
The Fraktur, February 1989 | Vol. 40, No. 1