Virginia Berresford was a Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts painter, printmaker and gallery owner working in a modernist style related to that of Georgia O'Keeffe.... Active on Cape Cod, Berresford was an active part of the group that raised the money to locate the local Martha's Vineyard Art Association facility. And in the early 1950s, in Edgartown, she opened the Island's first commercial art gallery. In her memoirs, she writes that in her second year in Edgartown, she rented a little "fish-house on the harbor for a gallery" to show both her work and that of others. Berresford then describes her second gallery, a shack in Menemsha basin, which she leased in 1954. In the hurricane of 1954, all the harbor shacks were toppled, all that is save Virginia's Berresford Gallery. She claims that a 300-pound statue of Adam and... [http://granarygallery.com/artist-item.php?itemId=3288791&title=Sand+Dunes%2C+Martha%27s+Vineyard+1935&artistId=196726&artist=Virginia+Berresford&fromCart=1]