Harry Sternberg was an American painter, printmaker, muralist, lithographer and educator. He was born in New York City on July 19, 1904. He studied at the Art Students League of New York, graphics with Harry Wickey. During the Depression, he was a Works Progress Administration artist and his murals are in post offices in Chicago as well as Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania. In 1936, Sternberg was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for creating a series of drawings, prints and paintings showing the principal American Industrial and agricultural occupations. He confined his investigations to the coal and steel industries of eastern Pennsylvania, immersing himself for several months in the lives of the coal miners in Mahanoy City. When he returned to New York, he made a series of 11 prints that emphasized the bleak lives and dangerous work of the miners. Sternberg wished to point out the dangers of working in the mines, the diseases caused by the inhalation of coal dust, mine collapses and maiming dynamite accidents that would result in such mutilations. From 1934–68, he taught painting and graphics at the Art Students League of New York, from 1942–45, graphics at the New School for Social Research and 1959–69, he was the head of the Art Department in the Idyllwild School of Music and Art at the University of Southern California. He wrote several books on graphics including silk screening, etching and woodcutting. Sternberg died on November 27, 2001, in Escondido, California.
original lithograph
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1956 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
Lithograph
Modernist Rabbi In Synagogue Judaica Watercolor Harry Sternberg
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Harry Sternberg, artist, teacher, and political activist was born in New York City's lower east side in 1904. He was the youngest of eight children born to his mother, a hungarian im...
Ink, Watercolor
original lithograph
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1957 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
Lithograph
$1,500
Harry Sternberg Pencil Signed Etching, 1931, New York City “Nudes in Landscape"
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Phoenix, AZ
New York and California Artist, Harry Sternberg (1904-2001) Ooriginal etching. Pencil Signed lower right. The edition size is small, only 40, seen lower center on the print. It is un...
Paper
THOMAS HART BENTON
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (American, 1904-2001) THOMAS BENTON, 1943. Color screenprint on gray card stock wove paper. Edition of 30. Signed "Benton by Sternberg" in ink, by hand by the artist...
Screen
EVENING
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Portland, ME
Sternberg, Harry (American, 1904-2001). EVENING. Screenprint in colors, 1941. Signed and titled in the screen. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8. In excellent condition.
Screen
original lithograph
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
Lithograph
original lithograph
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1957 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...
Lithograph
original lithograph
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1953 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1953 Spr...
Lithograph
Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
A contorted Rabbi looking upward is depicted in a naive, and almost child-like manner. Vibrant colors, and gestural brushstrokes fill the composition, enhancing the flatness of the f...
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Harry Sternberg, Mount Zion Cemetery, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Whitney and ACA, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, (Chasing) Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Commercial High School from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
Harry Sternberg, Girlfriends, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
$6,800
H 15.5 in W 14.5 in D 16 in
Saturday Evening Post Illustration. “ The Devil’s Stronghold” Original Magazine
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
The work is mostly black and white to indicate that this is a night scene. On closer inspection, you will see areas of magenta and ivory throughout The publisher's label on verso ide...
India Ink, Gouache, Pencil, Illustration Board
Swimmer - Screenprint (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
By Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Located in Paris, IDF
Ronard Brooks KITAJ Swimmer Screen print Signature printed in the plate On heavy paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch) Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972 Excellent condition
Screen
Splash Girl - Original painting, Signed
By Philippe Pasqua
Located in Paris, IDF
Philippe Pasqua (1965-) Splash Girl, 2010 Mixed medias : ink, watercolor and acrylic painting Signed bottom right Authenticated with the artist red stamp On...
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Pablo Picasso, vintage poster
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Texte : vintage original poster published by the famous Paris Gallery Claude Bernard for a Pablo Picasso exhibition in 1980. This poster depicts a Pi...
Paper
$2,000
H 49 in W 39.5 in D 1.35 in
"Women with Dove" very large colors serigraph with embossing.
By Sunol Alvar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sunol Alvar Title: Women with dove Year: c.1980 Medium: Colors serigraph with embossing Edition: Numbered E.A. 22/50 in pencil Paper: Wove Artwork (image) size: 36.25 x 27....
Screen
Paysage, Saules
By Charles-Emile Jacque
Located in Middletown, NY
Etchings with drypoint on laid Japon paper, 5 x 6 3/4 inches (128 x 172 mm); sheet 9 x 11 3/8 inches (230 x 290 mm), full margins. In very good condition with some minor uniform toni...
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Firebird, Art Deco Screenprint by Erte
By Erté
Located in Long Island City, NY
Erté Title: Firebird Date: 1987 Medium: Screenprint with foil stamping, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: CCXXVIII/CCL (228/250) Size: 39.5 x 25.7 in. (100.33 x 65.28 cm) Frame...
Screen
BADENDE MANNER: (THREE MALE BATHERS AT THE SHORE)
By Max Kaus
Located in Portland, ME
Kaus, Max. BADENDE MANNER: (THREE MALE BATHERS AT THE SHORE). Lithograph, c. 1924. Signed, lower left, in pencil, and numbered 6-10, further inscribed, lo...
Lithograph
"Daughters" Large color original serigraph
By Don Hatfield
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Daughters" 1992 is an original color serigraph on heavy Coventry paper by noted American artist Donald (Don) Hatfield, b.1947. It is hand signed and numbered 72/...
Screen
Birds in Flight
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern Chinese watercolor painting depicting birds soaring under a red sun.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
Jazz Composition - Bass and Trumpet
By Leo Meiersdorff
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Leo Meiersdorff – German/American (1934-1994) Title: Bass and Trumpet Year: ca 1965-70 Medium: Watercolor and ink Sight size: 14.25 x 17.5 inches. Matted size: 22 x 24 inch...
Ink, Watercolor
$7,500
H 31.5 in W 37.5 in D 1.5 in
“Six Figures, c. 1965-70” by Sakti Burman (b. 1935) Indian Folklore Watercolor
By Sakti Burman
Located in Yardley, PA
“Six Figures, c. 1965-70” by Sakti Burman (b. 1935). A wonderful example of Burman’s distinctive fusion of Indian folkloric imagery with European surrealist and fantastical sensibil...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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H 20 in W 24 in D 0.02 in
Harry Sternberg Original Pencil Signed Etching, 1929, "Roundhouse #1"
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Phoenix, AZ
New York and California Artist, Harry Sternberg (1904-2001) Original Etching created 1929. Pencil Signed lower right, pencil titled lower left. Edition size is seen lower center: 40 ...
Paper
Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
A contorted Rabbi looking upward is depicted in a naive, and almost child-like manner. Vibrant colors, and gestural brushstrokes fill the composition, enhancing the flatness of the figure. Harry Sternberg, artist, teacher, and political activist was born in New York City's lower east side in 1904. He was the youngest of eight children born to his mother, a hungarian immigrant, and his father, an immigrant from Russia, . His passion for art came early; by age 12 he had begun saturday art classes at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sternberg continued to advance his formal art education through 1922, studying at at New York's prestigious Arts Students League alongside Raphael Soyer, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and other notables of the day. His career as a professional artist began in 1928 when he consigned a group of his early prints with the dealer Frederick Keppel in New York. In 1933 he returned to the Art Students League of New York as an instructor, where he taught etching, lithography and composition, continuing to teach there for over 34 years. During the Great Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Sternberg came to national prominence as a printmaker, painter, and muralist, in the Depression era and during World War II. Sternberg was an acclaimed member of a vital generation of American artists dedicated to exposing social injustices and offering support for an egalitarian society. His interest in the plight of American workers...
Acrylic, Illustration Board
PRINCIPLE
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HARRY STERNBERG (1904- 2001) PRINCIPLE #2 - Aquatint and etching, Signed, titled and numbered /40 in pencil. Image 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches.. Sheet 13 1/8 x 16 3/4 inches. In very go...
Etching, Aquatint
“The King”
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Southampton, NY
Original 1965 oil on masonite painting of a king on his throne with embellishments of gold and silver leaf by the well known American artist, Harry Sternberg. Signed lower right. Ci...
Gold Leaf
“The Queen”
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Southampton, NY
Original 1965 oil on masonite painting of a queen on her throne with embellishments of gold and silver leaf by the well known American artist, Harry Sternberg. Signed lower left. Ci...
Gold Leaf
Driving Across the US, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
Painting the Mountains, from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
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H 28 in W 38 in
Television #2, WPA Figurative American Modernism Realism Mid-Century Color Field
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
Television #2, WPA Figurative American Modernism Realism Mid-Century Color Field Harry Sternberg (1904 - 2001), Television #2, 1949, Oil on canvas, Sig...
Canvas, Oil
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H 12.75 in W 10 in
Harry Sternberg, A. S. L (Art Students League) from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
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H 12.75 in W 10 in
Harry Sternberg, Wildlife in the Lower East Side from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of...
Woodcut
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H 12.75 in W 10 in
Harry Sternberg, (California Characters) from My Life in Woodcuts, 1991
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
In 1991 Harry Sternberg published a book with Brighton Press, San Diego. It was My Life in Woodcuts. At the time it was the only known woodcut autobiography. The deluxe editions of the book, of which there were 40, came with a set of all the images, in sheet form, each signed and numbered in pencil. The woodcuts were 'spoon printed' on Okawara paper. This image addresses the interesting people...
Woodcut
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H 29 in W 34 in D 2 in
"Barber Shop" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modernism NYC
By Harry Sternberg
Located in New York, NY
"Barber Shop" Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modernism NYC. 24 x 29 ½ inches. Oil on Canvas. c. 1940s. Signed lower left. The painting has been cleaned and reline...
Canvas, Oil