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Roberta Rosenthal
Roberta Rosenthal was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York. At a young age she knew art was her chosen career. In junior high school she was in a special art program and designed the graduating yearbook. She attended the High School of Art and Design in New York, and received a degree in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (1969). Rosenthal continued her studies at the Art Students League and was mentored by Nathanial Kaz. Her early paintings were influenced by the pop art movement, bold graphic paintings with a deep appreciation of art from cave paintings to contemporary work. However, Rosenthals' love of drawing and painting increased her growing interest in Asian art and botanical subjects which influenced her paintings.
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Rosenthal’s professional art career began (1969) as a graphic, textile and surface designer. She opened her own studio, RSR Designs (1977) in mid town Manhattan. Her work expanded into botanical illustration and design for clients including the New York Times, Fine Gardening Magazine, Horticulture Magazine, United Nations Magazine, Hearst Publications, Avon Books, Avon Products, and many corporations. Rosenthal’s art has been published on postage stamps for the Republics of Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Liberia.
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By the early 1980s, Rosenthal’s fine art paintings had developed into large wood and paper fans using plaka paint. At this time Rosenthal was the executive director of the Graphic Artists Guild’s job placement service. At night, Rosenthal studied Asian brush painting techniques with Japanese painter, Koho Yamamoto and Guo Liang Jui a Chinese master followed by Dogu Choegal Rimpoche a Tibetan monk master painter. Rosenthal strives to combine many forms of meditation and yoga into her paintings. Rosenthal’s work is primarily ink, watercolor, gouache or oils featuring flowers, landscapes or a combination of both where the touch of scientific botanical art, still life and landscape backgrounds blend Western and Eastern influences. Rosenthal studied botanical art at the New York Botanical Gardens Botanical Certificate Program where she is a botanical art instructor (1987 – current).
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Rosenthals' first fine art exhibition was at an Alumni Invitational at the Fashion Institute of Technology and later at the Asia Society Museum (1984) where she won an award. Her first of seven one-person exhibitions was in New York City at the Horticulture Society of New York (1989); she was subsequently included in the New York State Museum Natural Science Exhibition (1991. Her most recent one- person exhibit was at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Newburgh New York. Rosenthal' work has been exhibited in numerous museum and gallery shows.
Rosenthal works and teaches at her studio, Squirrel’s Nest in Bloomingburg, New York. Roberta Rosenthal is the designer of the logo of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance.
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Selected Collections
Weston Nurseries Inc., MA
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, NY
Hunt Institute For Botanical Documentation Library, PA
Republic of Palau and Republic of the Marshall Islands
New York Botanical Garden Library, NY
Horticulture Society of New York Library, NY
Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, NY
Mafcote Industries
Gryphon Corporation
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Memberships
The Society of Illustrators
American Society of Botanical Artists
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Catskill Art Society
Wurtsboro Art Alliance Honorary member, current President.
Shawangunk Garden Club
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Awards and Grants