West Palm Beach artist Maxine Schreiber said she is always trying to be a master painter like her father Herman Schreiber.

To honor her late father and also show some of her own work, the URS Gallery Group has an exhibit running through Jan. 10 with nine pieces from the father-and-daughter combo at the URS studio, 802 N. Federal Highway.

“Four of the paintings are my father’s in pastels and five are mine in oil,” Maxine Schreiber said. “It is nice to get his work out to show. We have 70 of his tucked away.”

Herman Schreiber was a well-known artist in New Jersey and Delray Beach before his death in 1995. He was featured in numerous exhibits, including the Montclair Museum of Art in New Jersey and the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach.

Maxine Schreiber took a more roundabout route into the professional painting business.

After not being able to make money in the painting industry in the 1970s and '80s, she turned to professional psychology, but was drawn back after 20 years. In 2001, she could not fight the painting fever anymore and started to pursue the craft full time.

Since returning to her passion, Maxine Schreiber has become a member of Women in the Visual Arts and has exhibited in numerous shows including the Armory Art Center, Palm Beach County Art in Public Places and the All Florida Juried Fine Art Exhibit in the Cornell Museum.

Suzette Urs, owner of the URS Gallery Group, said the quality of the work of the two artists was the first thing that caught her eye.

“We have regular clientele and we want them to have something to talk about and bring in new guests,” she said. “The second thing that caught my eye was that there is a lot of violence and anger in our climate today and these paintings don’t reflect that at all.”

Urs said the art from the father-daughter combo shows attention to detail and the appreciation for beautiful things in the world.

Information about the art can be found at www.schreiberstudio.com. For information about the gallery, call 561-734-6926.

Read more about this story in the Nov. 4 issue of the Boynton Forum.

Mike Rothman can be reached at mkrothman@tribune.com.