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Harry Sternberg

Harry Sternberg (1904 - 2001) was active/lived in New York, California.  Harry Sternberg is known for Modernist genre, mural, graphics, portrait painting.

Biography photo for Harry Sternberg
Photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son. Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Born in New York City, Harry Sternberg was a painter, muralist, lithographer and educator. During the Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania. From 1934 to 1968, he taught painting and graphics at the Art Students League in New York, from 1942 to 1945 graphics at the New School of Social Research, and from 1959 to 1969 was head of the Art Department in the Idylwild School of Music and Art at the University of Southern California.

He studied at the Art Students League and graphics with Harry Wickey. He wrote several books on graphics including silk screening, etching, and wood cutting.

Source: Who Was Who in American Art by Peter Falk   ...  [Displaying 734 of 2248 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

.  askART lists Harry Sternberg in 0 of its research Essays. Harry Sternberg has 13 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Harry Sternberg

   Publications  Book References:  36
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Harry Sternberg
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2001 Editor, Art In America Yes
36 Book References for Harry Sternberg
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1990 Acton, David A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress 310 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 West Publishing Company West '82 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1981 Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries Social Art in America 1930-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
62 No
1980 Minnesota Museum of Art West '80 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1977 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Power
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)
39 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
284 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Lozowick, Louis One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors 207 No
1942 Zigrosser, Carl The Artist in America 24 Close-ups of Contemporary Printmakers 207 No
1936 American Art Congress First American Art Congress 1936 104 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1935 Morrow, B F The Art of Aquatint 140 No
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