Harry Sternberg (1904-2001)

Harry Sternberg was born and raised in New York City. He studied printmaking privately with Harry Winckey for two years and then spent five years at the Art Students League. Following the completion of his studies, Sternberg taught various classes at the League from 1933 until 1968.

During the Depression he was a WPA mural painter and created murals for post offices in Chicago and both Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Sternberg received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936. Between 1949 and 1962 Harry Sternberg wrote five different books on art and printmaking technique. In 1975 the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University in Kansas held a retrospective exhibition of his prints and published a Catalog Raisonne. Sternberg’s works are in the permanent collections of over twenty museums.

The Fine Art of [Harry Sternberg] // 12.31.2024