Mary DeWitt Painting
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Cyd Berger, high-fired 6" tile, 2022
Cyd Berger Ceramic Paint, 2000, exhibited in 2025 in the Pardon Garden
Mural Portrait of Cyd Berger, hand-made, hand-painted, high-fired 6"x6"tile, 2024
Portrait of Cyd Berger, oil on linen, 24"x18+, 1992 with text added in 2020
6" mold-made ceramic plate portrait of Cyd Berger, 2020, dispplayed in Pardon Garden 2025
Cyd Berger, 60"x60", oil on grommetted canvas, City Hall Politico Cafe, Philadelphjia, 1993
Twenty four years later, my grandaughter, 18, and I, visited the Cyd Berger Mural, on Kaplan's Bakery at 3rd and Poplar. Little did I know, in 2000, that Cyd Berger would still be trapped in prison.
Narrative on the 2000 Cyd Berger Mural:
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Cyd Charisse Berger has been in prison in Pennsylvania since 1980. She is sentenced to life without parole although she did not commit the murder. Previously, she tried to escape from him but he beat her until she returned. Just before he killed the victim, he practiced on Cyd Berger. She helped her abuser flee and reported him to the police. Cyd Berger is asking the governor to pardon her sentence and needs support. Her abuser was the murderer. For information about the details of her case, contact the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women. 215-351-0010.
Portrait of Cyd Berger, 4'x5', oil on canvas, 2022
on exhibit at the Painted Bride Art Center
Portrait of Cyd Berger at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral in 2018
Portrait of Cyd Berger, reverse glass painting, 24"x24", 2000