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Harry Sternberg

Harry Sternberg

born New York, New York, 1904; died Escondido, California, 2001

BiographyHarry Sternberg was a New York City native who became a painter, printmaker, and educator. He trained at the Art Students League and later returned to teach painting and graphics. He also taught at the New School for Social Research and from 1959 to 1969 was head of the Art Department at the Idyllwild School of Music and Art at the University of Southern California. During the Depression he worked for the Federal Art Project painting murals for post offices in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Sternberg was a prolific printmaker who was interested in the new industrial age. Many of his prints focus on factories and the men who worked in them.

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