Dee Herget
Master Screen Painter
1935 ~ 2024
After quitting her City job due to a hearing loss, Dee asked elder artist Ben Richardson for a lesson. A quick study and natural artist she worked from her Highlandtown home, offering her work through hardware stores and ads in the East Baltimore Guide. She works from her own little waterside bungalow in Essex, turning out hundreds of traditional images on demand.
After retirement from screen painting, Dee passed away on February 11, 2024.
Delores A. ‘Dee’ Herget, practitioner of Baltimore tradition of window screen painting, dies - The Baltimore Sun News/Obituaries, Sat, February 15, 2024
Obituary
Screen paintings by Dee Herget.
