Bertha Mae Landers was born in Winnsboro. Member:
TFAA; Texas Printmakers; Dallas Artists League 1934; Dallas Print
Society; Printmakers Guild; Southern Printmakers; Southern States
Art League; Texas Artists Group. Studied: Sul Ross College; Art
Students League; Colorado Springs FA Center; Reginald Marsh; Arnold
Blanch; Henry Varnum Poor; Boardman Robinson. She worked on the
Texas section of the Federal Arts Project, Index of American Design
1939-41. She worked at the Dallas public library and in 1942
established the audiovisual department and was later director of
Art, Music and Film for the Kansas City Public Library, KC Missouri,
1950-1958. She was a close friend of Kelly Fearing, Fort Worth
artist and sometimes experimented with the modernist print work
associated with the Fort Worth Circle. Her work as a print maker won
numerous awards in venues i.e., Dallas Allied Arts Exhibitions,
Texas Fine Arts Association, and the Southern States Art League. She
was given numerous solo exhibitions including one at the Smithsonian
Institution.