Born in 1922 in Cluj, Romania, to a Hungarian family (Cluj was in Hungary till the end of WWI), Edith Lowinger immigrated to the U.S. as a young child with her parents, older sister, and younger brother. While still in grade school, she decided she wanted to be called Linda instead of Edith, and so Linda she became.  ​

 

After graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York City, Linda married Herbert Beers and won a scholarship to the Art Student League (also in New York City). She also won the scholastic art prize out of 15,000 entries that year. Her winning entry—the cover of the People gallery—was then reproduced in Life Magazine in June 1941. She was very proud of the fact that she was the only female artist to be featured in the magazine.​

 

In her 40s, Linda went back to school to Brooklyn College and became a registered nurse. But after her family—which included her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren—painting was her first love. She found a lot of inspiration in her family for many of her paintings. And even after becoming a mother and a nurse, Linda continued to paint. She also studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, and later, after moving to Florida, at the Norton Museum Art School, Palm Beach Community College, and the Armory Art School in Palm Beach.​

 

Linda has had paintings hung at different museums and some were sold. Three were sold for charity on the public television station. Linda eventually stopped working as an RN, though she maintained her license till she was about 90 years old. But she continued to take on new challenges with her paint brush well into her 90s: On her 97th birthday, she painted her grandson's cats. And at 99, she painted her great-granddaughter's wedding portrait. She loved to paint her world; to feel, to express what she saw. When she knew a painting was good—true and right—then it was her high. If someone else saw it that way too, then great. How could she lose?

 

Linda passed away in the summer of 2024, at the age of 102.