Beatrice Mandelman (1912-1998) was an American abstract artist associated with the group known as the Taos Moderns. This group of artists was inspired by Taos, New Mexico’s scenery and culture that included Agnes Martin and Emil Bisttram. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Mandelman studied at the Art Students League of New York. Associated with New York School artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, Mandelman was included in important exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. In the 1940s, she relocated to Taos, a hasty move that may have been to evade the FBI, who’d been tracking Mandelman and her husband because of their communist sympathies. In New Mexico, the landscape and culture had a profound influence on Mandelman's style, influencing it towards a brighter palette, more geometric forms, flatter surfaces, and more crisply defined forms.One critic wrote that the "twin poles" of her work were Cubism and Expressionism. Her work is included in many major public collections, including large holdings at the University of New Mexico Art Museum and Harwood Museum of Art.