About the artist:

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 5, 1924, the daughter of Henry and Anna Braun Evers, she attended local schools and was the Valedictorian of the graduating class of 1942 at Newtown High School in Queens. Mrs. Kochta was an accomplished abstract painter and was well known in the New York City art community. She owned and operated her own gallery in Greenwich Village, Manhattan for many years. She was a resident of Flushing/Queens for thirty years until moving to Lenox in 1983. She also operated the Clark Whitney Gallery at 25 Church Street until her retirement in 1997. Ruth Martha Kochta, died October 2, 2003 at at Berkshire Medical Center shortly after being stricken at home. She is survived by her son: Alan J. Kochta of Flushing, New York; and her daughter: Carol A. Young of Elmhurst, New York; and her three grandchildren. -------------------------------------------------------------- STUDIED Queens College Privately with E.B. Whitaker and Leo Manso Art Students League with Rudolf Baranik, Julian Levi and Bruce Dorfman MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York Elizabeth Ney Museum, Austin Texas Wadsworth Atheneum, hartford Connecticut Philathea Museum, New Britain, Connecticut SELECTED EXHIBITIONS National Academy Pan American College Audubon Artists New York International Art Show Southwest Texas State University Del Mar College Texas A&I University Fairleigh Dickenson University Shiela Nussbaum Gallery, New Jersey SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Ocean County College Guild Gallery, New York City Green Gallery, North Carolina Imperial Gallery, New York City SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS First and Merchants Bank, Richmond, VA National Bank of North America, NY Fairleigh Dickenson University, NJ Sutton Publishers, White Plains, NY Webb & Athey, Virgina Beach, VA Davis & Phillips, Virginia Beach, VA Shalimar, Staten Island, NY Siben Holding Corp. NY Drs. Whitmore and Rawls, Ltd, VA Philathea Museum, Canada General Electric, Pittsfield, Massachusetts