Beatrice Winn Berlin, printmaker and painter, was born on 3 October 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Moore College of Art, the Fleischer Art Memorial, and the Philadelphia College of Art, as well as with printmakers Sam Maitin and Hitoshi Nakazato. World War II put an end to her pursuit of fine art. During the war, she worked as a mechanical draftsperson and then focused on clothing design. Marriage and child rearing put her career on hold until the early 1960s.

In 1963, Berlin enrolled in what she thought was a drawing class at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which turned out to be an introduction to printmaking. Immediately inspired, she eventually learned every printmaking medium available at the school: woodcut, intaglio, collagraphy, and serigraphy. She found her stride in collagraphy and focused on sparse, deeply embossed works with areas of delicate texture. Of particular inspiration to Berlin was Japanese modernism.

In the late 1960s, Berlin began teaching drawing and painting at various community colleges throughout Philadelphia, and taught printmaking at the Trenton Jewish Community Center in Pennsylvania and the Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences in New Jersey. She exhibited regularly throughout Philadelphia and established a reputation as a leading printmaker. A member of the Philadelphia Print Club, she was also invited to perform printmaking demonstrations in the Philadelphia public schools from 1964-1968.

In 1976 she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, opening a studio in Martinez and teaching at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley. By 1980 her focus had changed from collagraphy to metal-plate intaglio, with a particular interest in power-tool engraving and drypoint. Her subjects became more representational and she frequently depicted rocky landscapes and trees with great attention to minute details and shading. To gain inspiration, she frequently traveled alone to the Southwest to camp in the desert, photographing rock formations and old, gnarled plant life. These she would bring back to her studio to sketch and finally etch into the plate.

Berlin was a member of and exhibited with the Philadelphia Print Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the American Color Print Society, and the California Society of Printmakers. Between 1965 and 1989, there were over forty solo exhibitions of her work and she participated in as many group shows, including at the National Academy of Design, the Pratt Graphics Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and in Tokyo, Japan. Her work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the University of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Beatrice Winn Berlin died in California on August 11, 1999.