WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture

Artists›Jake Berthot

Jake Berthot

Jake Berthot

Artist

WA-00026219

Printmaking

Representation

None documented

5

Institutional Exhibitions

39

Works in Collection

77

Assets Indexed

0

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

60%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

No influence edges encoded yet.

Authority Records (2)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

View all exhibitions →

No image

Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

No image

Contemporary Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984–1985

No image

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

No image

Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Part II

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

No image

New Work on Paper 1

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/529
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Jake Berthot was an American painter whose abstractions emerged from careful observation of light, color, and the materiality of paint itself. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas from the 1960s onward, his compositions balance gestural mark-making with structured compositional discipline, reflecting a sustained engagement with postwar abstraction. His work occupied a distinctive position between the expressive abstraction of the 1950s and the conceptual developments of later decades.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

—

Medium

Printmaking

Related Artists

6 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (39)

Untitled

1998 · Pencil on paper

20 1/8 x 26 1/8" (51.1 x 66.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Black Oak for Kristen

Black Oak for Kristen

1998 · Charcoal and pencil on paper

19 5/8 x 24 1/8" (49.8 x 61.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1997 · Oil and graphite on wood

Overall: 15 in. × 12 5/8 in. (38.1 × 32.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for "Reece's Meadow"

1997 · Graphite on paper

15 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (38.4 × 32.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tree on Bracklow Farm

1997 · Graphite on paper

13 x 11 in. (33 x 27.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dartmouth Suite #7

Dartmouth Suite #7

1995 · Ink and pencil on prepared paper

30 1/8 x 22 1/2" (76.5 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1989 · Ink on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1989 · Ink on paper

29 3/4 x 22" (75.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

For Adorno #1-6

1989 · .2 pen and ink on blue-gray paper mounted on paper / 3., .6 pen and ink and ink wash / .5 pen and ink on torn paper pasted onto pen and ink and ink wash on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1989 · Ink on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1989 · Ink and crayon on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

For Adorno #4

1989 · Ink and crayon on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

For Adorno #5

1989 · Ink on torn paper on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1987 · monotype

Cleveland Museum of Art

Anawanda

1985 · Oil on linen

48 1/4 x 35 1/4" (122.6 x 89.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1985 · Ink, gouache and pencil on paper

10 1/2 x 10 3/4" (26.7 x 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1984 · Ink and crayon on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1984 · Ink, crayon and pencil on paper

30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

1982 · Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper

30 1/4 x 22 1/2" (76.8 x 57.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait

1981 · Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper

30 1/8 x 22 1/2" (76.5 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (skull)

Untitled (skull)

1981 · Ink, gesso and pencil on paper

4 5/8 x 3 5/8" (11.7 x 9.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1981 · Oil on canvas

6' 1 1/2" x 49 1/4" (186.7 x 125.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

1981 · Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper

30 1/8 x 22 1/2" (76.5 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

How Briefly - The Tale of Two Meeting

1981 · Synthetic polymer paint and pencil on paper

30 1/8 x 22 1/2" (76.5 x 57.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

View all 39 artworks →

Artwork sources (4)

39 published of 76 catalogued · 54 with image

MoMA
35 publishedof 70 catalogued54 img
The Met
3 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published
+ 1 more source · 2 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1987 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Relationships

2

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate