Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958) is an American painter.
[2][3][4][5][1] She was born in Paterson, New Jersey and graduated from the Cooper Union in 1980.
[1] She received an Arts and Letters grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013,[6] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year.
[7][8][9] The Brooklyn Museum holds examples of her work.
[10] Often working in large-scale and in oil paint, a recurring motif in Berkenblit’s work is a magical female protagonist, frequently depicted as a cartoonish women in profile, with long lashes, rosy cheeks, and wild hair.