Bertram Hartman

C. Bertram Hartman (1882–1960) was an American oil and watercolor painter. His paintings are exhibited in museums in the United States.

Early life C. Bertram Hartman was born in Junction City, Kansas in 1882. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

Hartman was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the American Watercolor Society and the Mural Painters of America. His address: 11 MacDougal Alley, located on the other side of 20 West 8th Street where his friend Gaston Lachaise had a studio from Nov. 1924-1926/27.

Personal life and death Hartman and his wife Augusta (1885-1960), known as Gusta, resided in New York City and had a number of artist friends. They were very close with the Lachaises, to whom they introduced Dorothy Norman. Gaston Lachaise sculpted a portrait of Gusta known as "The Girl with Bobbed Hair" 1923. Casts can be seen at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Bertram wrote numerous letters to Isabel Lachaise, which are held by the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Bertram died in New York in 1960.