Harry Sternberg

The Poodle and The Clown

Harry Sternberg's original lithograph, "The Poodle and the Clown" is a brilliant examination of light, shade, space and movement. It is constructed almost entirely with circular forms, from the galleries in the background to the hoop and spotlight in the foreground. A masterwork of Sternberg’s lithographic style, "The Poodle and the Clown" was commissioned by the Associated American Artists in 1946 and published by them in a sole, limited edition of 250 signed impressions. The A.A.A. was created in the mid 1930’s and was responsible for publishing original lithographs and etchings by such great artists as Reginald Marsh, Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. Harry Sternberg contributed three original graphic works of art to the A.A.A

Original Lithograph by the American artist, Harry Sternberg

The Poodle and The Clown

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Title:	The Poodle and The Clown
Artist:	Sternberg, Harry (New York City, 1904 - Escondido, CA, 2001)
Date:	1946
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Associated American Artists, New York
Edition:	Limited edition of two hundred and fifty impressions.
Note:	Harry Sternberg: 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 an even greater evil -- the rise in Europe of fascism. His prints during the following years concentrated upon the war against fascism and racial injustices and are among his most poignant. 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.
	Today the art of Harry Sternberg will 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.
	During the 1930’s and 1940’s, the city of New York was home to an influential grouping of social realist artists. One scholar writes, “Many of these artists worked extensively in lithography; others chose the intaglio print as their primary medium. Working principally in New York, they together created a body of work which accurately reflects the varied character of the period: the bawdy vitality of burlesque shows, street fairs and Coney Island; the quiet lives of the city’s people in their rooms and apartments; and the unhappy existence of lonely, unemployed men on the Bowery and in all-night missions. Among the many artists who dealt with at least some of these themes in their prints of this period are Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Mabel Dwight, Harry Gottlieb, William Gropper, Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, Benton Spruance and Harry Sternberg” * Clearly, this listing includes many of America’s greatest artists from this period.
Raisonne:	James C. Moore, Harry Sternberg, A Catalogue Raisonne of his Graphic Work, Wichita, Kansas, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art: Wichita State University, 1975. Catalogue #186, First and only state as published by the A.A.A. in New York in 1946 in the limited, signed edition of 250.
Reference:	* Clinton Adams, American Lithographers: 1900-1960, Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Press, 1983: Quotation on p. 131.
Size:	11 7/8 X 9 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Buy Now	Price: $675.00 US
Condition:	Printed on smooth wove paper and with full margins as published in New York in 1946. Signed in pencil by the artist along the lower margin. In excellent condition throughout without a trace of toning or staining. The Poodle and the Clown represents a superb, original example of the famous lithographic art of Harry Sternberg.
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