Berta Golahny (born Bertha Rosenbaum; February 7, 1925 – November 4, 2005) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

As a child, she began to draw while watching her father design wrought-iron pieces for the company he founded, Liberty Ironworks.

[1] She was educated at Detroit's Cass Technical High School and then in 1943-4 the Art Students League of New York, having received a National Scholarship.

At Iowa, she studied printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky, art history under William S. Heckscher, and painting under Eugene Ludins.

When Yehuda began to pursue a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering at MIT (class of 1954), the couple moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

One series of works, begun around 1964 with a multi-block color woodcut, was titled Landscape of Man in Nuclear Age.

Golahny reprised this composition of a whirligig (a central pole with carts swinging from it) in a 1987 woodcut and in several subsequent large paintings.

In comparing Crab Nebula to the photographs that inspired the work, it is fascinating to see how much more vivid and complex the artist's interpretation is.

Inspired by this series and other paintings, Boston-based musicians Paul and Rosalie DiCrescenzo wrote a four-movement score to accompany a slide-show of the images, titled The Watchers and the Watched.

[citation needed] In Spring 2018, Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) hosted a large exhibition of her work, Berta Golahny: The Human Abstract.