Betty Warren, later known as Betty Warren Herzog, was an acclaimed portrait artist, born in New York City.
Background
Warren was born in New York City. She was the daughter of illustrator Jack A. Warren, the co-creator of Pecos Bill. At the age of 16, her father convinced her to become an artist like him.
She studied art with her father, as well as Henry Hensche in Provincetown, and at the National Academy of Design.
Career
Warren, known for her bright colorist portraits, was one of the top paid female portraitists of the 20th century. Her last formal portrait was of Governor Hugh Carey for the State of New York in 1991. Hensche painted a portrait of Warren as a young woman.
Warren was the youngest woman to be given a solo exhibit at a major United States Museum (Berkshire Museum 1940), when she was twenty years old.
She became nationally known as a portraitist by the 1980s. She started an art school at Malden Bridge, New New York
In 1987, the Albany Institute feature a major retrospective of four decades of her work. Warren"s legacy includes the many students who she taught art at her own school in Malden Bridge, as well as her classes at the Albany Institute.
Lorraine Lans was one of her students.
Philip Gianni studied two summers, under a scholarship, with Warren at Malden Bridge. Nelson Shanks, noted portrait painter was her student. Susan Goetz, and Maryanna Goetz also studied with her.
Both are noted painters.