Draft:Minnette Lehmann

Minnette Lehmann (nee Berns) is a San Francisco artist.

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• Comment: Living people need sourcing inline, see WP:BLP, then WP:REFB.
  More importantly, notability is not shown here, this requires getting through the WP:GOLDENRULE, with 3 pieces of independent reliable sourcing with significant coverage. Or WP:NCREATIVE, such as evidence of permanent collections. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. MalkaToby1928 (talk) 01:22, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Born in Sacramento in 1928 to a Polish-Jewish immigrant family.

Berns attended UC Berkeley from 1945-1949. At Berkeley, she majored in Sociology and was active in the UC Berkeley student movement opposing the Loyal Oath. In 1949, Berns married student leader Bob Martinson, chairman of the Berkeley Socialist Youth League and divorced him two years later.

Minnette Berns married Herbert Lehmann in 1953 and had three children: New York-based actress and artist, Barbara Lehmann; filmmaker Michael Lehmann; and novelist Stephanie Lehmann.

In the 1950s, Minnette Lehmann was involved founding of City Lights Books along with Peter Martin and experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson, and was a member of the Model's Guild at the San Francisco Art Institute.

In the early 1960s, Minnette Lehmann was the assistant editor for Sausalito-based review of arts and culture, Contact Magazine.

In 1968, Lehmann documented the anti-Vietnam War protests, burgeoning women's movement, and student strike at San Francisco State University (SFSU), and returned to the San Francisco Art Institute to study in the Photography Department. She received her MFA in 1972.

In 1975, she won a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant for her portrait series contemplating marriage and divorce, Couples (To Have and To Hold, Till Death Do Us Part).