Halleluja, 1943
Oil on canvas
34 x 28 inches
Framed: 39 x 32 1/2 inches
Signed: Bernice Cross 1943 lower left
artist
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Bernice Cross became a muralist and a painter on canvas in abstract style of figure, genre and botanical subjects. She lived in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia and studied in Wilmington, Delaware at the Wilmington Academy of Art, and in Washington, D.C. at the C.L. Watkins Studio House, and the Corcoran School of Art. Her murals can be found at the Children's State Tubercular Sanitarium in Glendale, Maryland, and the Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.