Etching/Aquatint, 1931
11.75 x 14.75
Edition: 40
Matted
Price: $2,200.00
Harry Sternberg was born in Manhattan’s lower east side, Harry Sternberg began his art education at the age of eleven by taking Saturday art classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He continued his studies through 1922 at New York’s Art Students League, studying printmaking techniques under Harry Wickey. Sternberg returned to the Art Students League in 1933, this time as an instructor teaching etching, lithography and composition. Harry Sternberg’s first published prints date from 1928 and were commissioned by the New York publisher and art dealer, Frederick Keppel. Almost from the beginning Sternberg’s primary artistic concern was life in the modern urban environment. He rose to national recognition in the mid 1930’s when he produced a series of paintings and prints depicting the plight of American laborers. His lithographs and etchings on this subject are both vivid and horrific in their portrayals, with the steel mills and industrial sites taking the form of vast mazes that trap and eventually imprison the workers.
By 1940 Harry Sternberg began depicting the rise in Europe of fascism. His prints during the following years concentrated upon the war against fascism and racial injustices. In 1966 Sternberg, on the advice of his doctor, moved permanently to Escondido, California. There he continued to both practice his fine art as well as teaching at colleges and universities in Southern California.
Harry Sternberg art can be found in most major American collections including, the Butler Institute of American Art, Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, New York Public Library, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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Etching/Aquatint, 1931 11.75 x 14.75 Edition: 40 Matted Price: $2,200.00 |
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