My Bestfriend: Painted and donated by Roberta Gottesman. You can enjoy the beautiful array of colors on this acrylic on canvas painting. Roberta Gottesman retired from careers as a children's legal rights attorney and publisher of local books, to find that she had always harbored a secret desire to become an artist. She has studied at the Art Students' League in Alexandria, the Art Students' League in New York City, the Cape Cod School of Impressionist Art, and the Smithsonian. Her work has been shown at the Glen Echo Exhibition, the King Street Gallery in Alexandria, and in Soho in New York City. She is a Post-Impressionist with Expressionist leanings who loves the color purple.