About
Continuing the Tradition
bg Fine Art is a regional American art gallery with roots dating to 1985, when it was founded as Bert Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island. Now located at the Rumford Center, the gallery continues to showcase and preserve the rich artistic traditions of Rhode Island and New England within the broader context of American art.
We rediscover historically significant artists whose work reflects major American styles and movements from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. A selection of paintings, drawings and woodcuts are always on view at the bg Fine Art Gallery Suite.
bg Fine Art offers professional art advisor & appraisal services. Catherine Little Bert is the curator and manager of the Walter Feldman Art Trust, Brown University.
Catherine Little Bert
Bert, director and owner of bg Fine Art formerly Bert Gallery, has passionately researched and written on the subject of regional artists within the culturally rich arts community of Providence. She has mounted over 100 exhibitions and given numerous lectures during forty-plus years of business, investigating and exploring historical artists and their alignment in the canon of American art.
She has an undergraduate degree from Providence College and a graduate degree from the University of Connecticut. Bert earned a Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts from New York University and is an appraiser compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
Bert co-authored the catalogue Making Her Mark: The Women Artists of the Providence Art Club 1880 and has authored three chapters in Infinite Radius: Founding Rhode Island School of Design.
Sketches, an art journal funded by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and co-authored with LJ McElroy, includes research by Bert on the early Providence Art Club artists and the important Rhode Island women artists of the 19th century.
Recent lectures include “Woman Printmaker Grace Albee 1890 - 1985: From Providence to Paris” and “Walter Feldman 1925 – 2017: The 1950’s” for the Providence Art Club, “Walter Feldman: The Art of the Book” and “Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890 – 1960)” at the Providence Athenaeum, “The Magical Realism of Louise Marianetti” at the North Providence Historical Society, “The Myth of Sydney Burleigh” at the Little Compton Historical Society and “Artists and Patrons of the 1901 Arts and Crafts Exhibition” at the Providence Art Club.
Bert was a member of the National Advisory Board at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC for decades. She has served as a Board of Trustee at Providence College, a board member at the Rhode Island Historical Society, Co-President of Gallery Night Providence and Chair of the National Advisory Board at NMWA. She has consulted at the American College of Greece, in Athens and on exhibitions at the Fall River Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society, Newport Art Museum, the Providence Art Club and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
