About Gloria

Gloria Goldsmith Hersch is a well-known award winning regional artist specializing in paintings of scenes of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Many of her scenes include vehicles and people in order to convey a sense of time and place to the viewer. Most of Gloria’s work is done in acrylic on canvas, but she also enjoys working in other media and on varied subject matter.

Since entering competition in 1991, Gloria has received over 200 awards including many “Best of Show” and “People’s Choice” and received the “Best of Show” award at the 2003 Arts & Heritage Festival in Greensburg. She has had numerous one-person exhibits, has taught and conducted demonstrations and served as an art juror. She has participated in many prestigious exhibitions including the Butler Museum in Youngstown and Salem, Ohio, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto and Ligonier, Westmoreland Museum in Greensburg, the Hoyt Museum in New Castle, the Robeson Gallery at Penn State in State College, the Art Institute in Pittsburgh, the Olin Gallery at Washington & Jefferson in Washington, Pennsylvania, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickly, Pennsylvania and the 73rd Hudson Valley Art Association Exhibit at Hastings-on-Hudson in New York.

Her paintings are in private and corporate collections in the United States and overseas, including the H. J. Heinz World Headquarters in Pittsburgh, the Greater Latrobe School District Art Collection, the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, the Monroeville Public Library Collection, and a portrait of the late young hero John Minadeo on display in the Pittsburgh Public School that is named for him.

Gloria’s biographical profile is included in “Who’s Who in American Art.” She is a member of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, a board member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Hoyt Artist’s Association, and a member of the East Suburban Artists League and the Penn Art Association.