Hedda Sterne
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Hedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock
, Willem de Kooning
, Barnett Newman
, Mark Rothko
, and others. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with the group by Nina Leen for Life magazine in 1950. In her artistic endavors she created a body of work known for exhibiting a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism
and Abstract Expressionism
, with which she is often associated.
Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene. At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first-generation of the New York School
, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than as definitive statements. In 1944 she married Saul Steinberg
the Romania
n-born American
cartoonist
and illustrator
, best known for his work for The New Yorker
.
During the late 1940s she became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art
's policy towards American painting
of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning
, Adolph Gottlieb
, Ad Reinhardt
, Richard Pousette-Dart
, William Baziotes
, Jimmy Ernst
, Jackson Pollock
, James Brooks
, Clyfford Still
, Robert Motherwell
, Bradley Walker Tomlin
, Theodoros Stamos
, Barnett Newman
, and Mark Rothko
.
Her works are in the collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA) in New York, the National Gallery of Art
in Washington D.C., and the National Museum of Women in the Arts
, also in Washington D.C. She turned 100 in August 2010.
in 1910 as Hedwig Lindenberg. Born to Simon Lindenberg, a high school language teacher,and Eugenie (Wexler) Lindenberg. She was the second child with her only sibling, Edouard, who later became a prominent conductor in Paris. Sterne was raised with artistic values from a young age, most notably, her tie to Surrealism, which stemmed from a family friend, Victor Brauner
. Sterne was homeschooled until age 11. Upon her high school graduation in 1927,at age 17, she attended art classes in Vienna, then had a short attendance at the University of Bucharest studying philosophy and art history before she dropped out to pursue artistic training independently. She spent time traveling, especially to Paris developing her technical skills as both a painter and sculptor. Hedda Sterne married a childhood friend Frederick Sterne in 1932 when she was 22. In 1941 she escaped a certain death from Nazi encroachment during WWII when she fled to New York to be with Frederick. In 1944 she remarried Saul Steinberg
and became a U.S. citizen. It is not mentioned if she ever had children. She was involved in many shows and exhibits in New York and practiced her art up until macular dgenration set in and she could no longer paint, but continued to draw. Then when she was 94 Sterne had a stroke that affected her vision and movement and thereafter was unable to make art at all.
, Willem de Kooning
, Barnett Newman
and Mark Rothko
. These artists were also thought to be a part of the New York School
as well as Sterne (although she preferred not to be aligned with any artistic group). "The Irascibles" are the artists who signed a letter protesting conservative group-exhibition juries to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life
where the infamous Nina Leen photograph was published of all members of "The Irascibles".
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
, and others. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with the group by Nina Leen for Life magazine in 1950. In her artistic endavors she created a body of work known for exhibiting a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
, with which she is often associated.
Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene. At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first-generation of the New York School
New York School
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City...
, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than as definitive statements. In 1944 she married Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
the Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n-born American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
and illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
, best known for his work for The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
.
During the late 1940s she became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
's policy towards American painting
Visual arts of the United States
American art encompasses the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style. A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement,...
of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist.-Biography:Gottlieb was born in New York to Jewish parents. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which he traveled in France and Germany for a year...
, Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Frederick Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism...
, Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Pousette-Dart was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.-Biography:He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937...
, William Baziotes
William Baziotes
William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.-Life and career:...
, Jimmy Ernst
Jimmy Ernst
Jimmy Ernst was an American painter born in Germany.-Early life:Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus, a well-known art historian and journalist. His parents divorced in 1922 and Ernst staying with his mother in Cologne...
, Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, James Brooks
James Brooks (painter)
James Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island. In 1947 he married artist Charlotte Park...
, Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:...
, Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
, Bradley Walker Tomlin
Bradley Walker Tomlin
Bradley Walker Tomlin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. He participated in the famous ‘’Ninth Street Show.’’ According to John I. H...
, Theodoros Stamos
Theodoros Stamos
Theodoros Stamos , was a Greek American artist. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters , which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko...
, Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, and Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
.
Her works are in the collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
(MoMA) in New York, the National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
in Washington D.C., and the National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts , located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay...
, also in Washington D.C. She turned 100 in August 2010.
Biography
Sterne was born in Bucharest, RomaniaRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
in 1910 as Hedwig Lindenberg. Born to Simon Lindenberg, a high school language teacher,and Eugenie (Wexler) Lindenberg. She was the second child with her only sibling, Edouard, who later became a prominent conductor in Paris. Sterne was raised with artistic values from a young age, most notably, her tie to Surrealism, which stemmed from a family friend, Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images.-Early life:He was born in Piatra Neamţ, the son of a timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years. It is there that young Victor attended elementary school...
. Sterne was homeschooled until age 11. Upon her high school graduation in 1927,at age 17, she attended art classes in Vienna, then had a short attendance at the University of Bucharest studying philosophy and art history before she dropped out to pursue artistic training independently. She spent time traveling, especially to Paris developing her technical skills as both a painter and sculptor. Hedda Sterne married a childhood friend Frederick Sterne in 1932 when she was 22. In 1941 she escaped a certain death from Nazi encroachment during WWII when she fled to New York to be with Frederick. In 1944 she remarried Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
and became a U.S. citizen. It is not mentioned if she ever had children. She was involved in many shows and exhibits in New York and practiced her art up until macular dgenration set in and she could no longer paint, but continued to draw. Then when she was 94 Sterne had a stroke that affected her vision and movement and thereafter was unable to make art at all.
Chronology
- 1910 - Born in Bucharest, Romania.
- 1919 - Her father Simon dies. Her mother remarries Leonida Cioara, the partner in their family business.
- 1927 - Finishes high school.
- 1928 - Enters University of BucharestUniversity of BucharestThe University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest.-Presentation:...
to study Art History and Philosophy but finds curriculum limiting and leaves after a year to do independent study. - 1932 - Marries childhood friend Frederick Stern. They divorced in 1944.
- 1939 - WWII begins.
- 1941 - Barely escaping a massacre of Jews in her apartment building Hedda flees to New York. Meets Peggy Guggenheim through which she meets several artists.
- 1944 - Marries Saul Steinberg. Sterne Becomes U.S. citizen.
- 1950 - Named one of country's best artists under age of 36 in the March 20 issue of LifeLife (magazine)Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
. Signs a letter to President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 20 to protest aesthetically conservative group-exhibition juries. All signers are dubbed "The Irascibles" in an articles about the letter wherein the famous Nina Leen photograph of the artists is published for the first time. - 1960 - Sterne and Steinberg separate but remain close friends. Begins to disengage socially with the art world and leads an increasingly private life.
- 1992 - In November, meets the art dealer Philippe Briet, the beginning of a sustainable friendship leading to several projects, which will be interrupted by his prematured death in February 1997. In October 1994, he introduces writer Michel Butor to Hedda Sterne, being at the origin of their collaboration for the book he would publish in September 1995, "La Révolution dans l'Arboretum".
- 1997 - Macular degeneration causes Sterne to stop painting, however she continues drawing.
- 1999 - Her second husband Saul Steinberg dies.
- 2004 - Suffers stroke. Makes a remarkable recovery but her eyesight fails causing her to stop practicing her art.
- 2006 - "Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne; A Retrospective" is written.
- 2010 - Sterne reaches her 100th birthday in August.
- 2011 - Dies in New York at age 100.
Quotes
- "I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one."
- "Nobody tried to influence me, I just worked."
- "I always thought that art is not quote self-expression but communication."
- "It's malentendu to consider me Abstract Expressionist. I was invited to participate in many things, but I never considered myself part of that group, or any group, and it shows in my work."
- "I cannot stand that every time people talk about you they immediately want to place you in a box--influenced by so and so...But you do not derive directly from anyone."
- "My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see."
- "I always painted ideas, I have to say. It was always some set of ideas that get me going."
The Irascibles
Sterne the only woman in a group of rogue artists who were dubbed "The Irascibles". The term was coined to represent the group consisting of 18 prominent artists of their day, including Jackson PollockJackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
and Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
. These artists were also thought to be a part of the New York School
New York School
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City...
as well as Sterne (although she preferred not to be aligned with any artistic group). "The Irascibles" are the artists who signed a letter protesting conservative group-exhibition juries to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
where the infamous Nina Leen photograph was published of all members of "The Irascibles".
Legacy
From the very beginning of her outstanding but unknown career, Sterne maintained an individual profile in the face of Jackson PollockJackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, Willem de KooningWillem de KooningWillem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Mark RothkoMark RothkoMark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
, and Barnett NewmanBarnett NewmanBarnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, all of whom she knew personally. Her independence reflected an immense artistic and personal integrity. The astonishing variety of Sterne's work, spanning from her initial appropriation of surrealist techniques, to her investigation of conceptual painting, and her unprecedented installations in the 1960s, exemplify her adventurous spirit. Yet, the heterogeneity of her styles, and her complete disinterest in the commercially driven art world, have contributed to her exclusion from the canon. When the heroic male narratives of modernism begin to fade, we may, eventually, be ready to recognize this amazingly idiosyncratic body of work. Sterne's art is, indeed, a manifesto in favor of the untamable forces of the mind and the continually changing flux of life.
Career
Sterne's career did not bloom until she came to New York, even though she had had a few exhibitions in Romania. She showed her work for the first time in a group show, the 11th Exposition du Salon des Surindépendants, in Paris in 1938. Sterne was included in group and independent art shows throughout her entire career.Artistic Style
"Hedda Sterne views her widely varied works more as "in flux" than as definitive statements. She has maintained a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism". Hedda never liked to define her art or herself into any group socially or artistically. She never followed a boundary of a certain style. Sterne was a self taught, uninfluenced artist who just worked and made her art as she pleased and how she pleased without having a single concern to try to define her art into any category. "Although she never developed a signature style, Ms. Sterne's explorations have produced a small universe of evocative images".Artworks
- New York VIII, 1954 - The Museum of Modern Art
- Violin Lesson, 1944 - Carnegie Museum of ArtCarnegie Museum of ArtThe Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie...
, Pittsburgh - Machine 5, 1950 - Krannert Art MuseumKrannert Art MuseumThe Krannert Art Museum is a museum of art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, USA. It is the second-largest museum in Illinois, with of space devoted to all periods of art, from ancient Egyptian to contemporary photography...
and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Tondo #22, 1953 - Illinois State MuseumIllinois State MuseumThe Illinois State Museum is the official museum of the natural history of the U.S. state of Illinois. The headquarters museum is located on Spring and Edwards Streets, one block southwest of the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, the state capital...
- Third Avenue El, 1952-53 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- New York No. 1, 1954 - Toledo Museum of ArtToledo Museum of ArtThe Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its present location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B....
- New York, N.Y., 1955 - Whitney Museum of American ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtThe Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
- New York, 1956 - The Art Institute of Chicago
- Barnett Newman, 1952 - Frances Lehman Loeb Art CenterFrances Lehman Loeb Art CenterThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. It was originally founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. It displays works from antiquity to contemporary times...
, Vassar CollegeVassar CollegeVassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,... - Diary, 1976
Awards
- 1957 - Second Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Annual
- 1963 - Fulbright Fellowship, Studied in Venice
- 1967 - First Prize, Art Institute of Newport Annual
- 1971 - American Academy of Arts & Letters, "Childe Hassam Purchase Award"
- 1984 - American Academy of Arts & Letters, "Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund Award"
One Woman Shows
- 1945 - Wakefield Gallery, N.Y.
- 1945 - Mortimer Brandt Gallery, N.Y.
- 1947 - Betty Parsons Gallery, '48, '50 '53, '54, '57, '58, '61, '63, '66, '68, '70, '74, '75, '78
- 1953 - Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, '61
- 1953 - Museo de Arte, SaoPaulo, Brazil
- 1955 - Arts Club of Chicago
- 1956 - Vassar College
- 1956 - Saidenberg Gallery
- 1968 - Rizzoli Gallery
- 1971 - Sneed Gallery
- 1972 - Clinton, N.J.
- 1973 - Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton
- 1973 - "Hedda Sterne: Recent Painting", Rush Rhees Gallery, University of Rochester, NY (November 26-December 15).
- 1975 - "Hedda Sterne: Portraits", Lee Ault & Company, New York (October 15-November 8).
- 1977 - "Hedda Sterne: Retrospective Exhibition", Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey (April 24-June 26).
- 1982 - "Hedda Sterne: A Painting in Life", CDS Gallery, New York (March 17-April 12).
- 1985 - "Hedda Sterne: Forty Years", retrospective, Queens Museum of Art, New York (February 2-April 14).
- 1993 - "Hedda Sterne", Philippe Briet Gallery, New York (January 23-February 27).
- 1995 - "Hedda Sterne, New Paintings", CDS Gallery, New York (February 18-March 31).
- 1998 - "Hedda Sterne: Dessins [1939-1998]," Bibliothèque Municipale, Caen (April 1–30).
Group Shows (Abbreviated list)
- 1943 - Art of This Century gallery, N.Y., "Exhibition of 31 Women"
- 1949 - Whitney Museum Annual, '59, '67
- 1951 - Los Angeles County Museum
- 1951 - Third Tokyo International Art Exhibition
- 1954 - Art Institute of Chicago Annual, '55, '57, '60, '61
- 1955 - Museum of modern Art
- 1955 - Corcoran Gallery Annual, Washington, D.C., '56, '58, '63
- 1955 - Whitney Museum, "New Decade Show"
- 1955 - Carnegie International, '58, '61, '62, '64
- 1955 - Rhode Island School of Design, '56
- 1956 - Venice Biennial
- 1956 - Smithsonian Institution
- 1956 - Art Institute of Chicago, "American Artists Paint the City"
- 1957 - Minnesota Institute of Art, "American Painting"
- 1958-59 - American Federation of Arts, University of Iowa, "Contemporary American Paintings"
- 1960 - Mexico City Biennial
- 1961 - Art Institute of Chicago, "Painting & Sculpture"
- 1962 - Molton Gallery, London "Four American Painters"
- 1964 - Cincinnati Art Museum
- 1964 - Das Kunstwerk, "The Work of Art"
- 1966 - Heron Museum of Art
- 1969 - Phillips Collection, Westmoreland Museum
- 1971 - Finch College, "Artists at Work"
- 1972 - Guild Hall, East Hampton, "Then & Now"
- 1971 - Minnesota Museum of Art, "Drawings USA/71"
- 1971 - Heckscher Museum, Huntington, N.Y.
- 1983, May 25-June 18, Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery. Mino ArgentoMino ArgentoMino Argento is an Italian artist, whose works comprise abstract paintings on canvas and paper.-Life and work:Mino Argento was born in Rome, Italy in 1927. He worked in architecture as a young man...
, Jack YoungermanJack Youngerman-Biography:Jack Youngerman, was born 1926, St. Louis, MO, moved in Louisville, KY in 1929. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947....
, David Budd, Calvert CoggeshallCalvert Coggeshall-Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
, Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
, Lee HallLee HallLee Hall may refer to:People:* Lee Hall , US lawyer and animal rights activist* Lee Hall , English playwright and screenwriter* Lee Hall , news anchor for WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois...
, Minoru KawabataMinoru KawabataMinoru Kawabata Japanese artist, whose works comprise Abstract Expressionist, Color field paintings.-Life and work:Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 191. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy 1937-39. Beginning in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University,...
, Richard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-Dart was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.-Biography:He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937...
, Leon Polk SmithLeon Polk SmithLeon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders....
, Hedda Sterne, Ed Zutrau and Sari Dienes (among others). - 1994 - Galerie de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, "Le Temps d'un Dessin", curated by Philippe Briet, drawings by 86 artists living in the United States (March 16-April 6).
Collections
- Metropolitan Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Whitney Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Virginia Museum, Richmond
- University of Illinois, Urbana
- Rockefeller Institute
- Detroit Institute of Art
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection
- Albrecht Gallery, St. Joseph, Mo.
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- U.S. Dept. of State
- Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo
- University of Nebraska Art Gallery
- Carnegie Institute
- Inland Steel Co., Chicago
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- Toledo Museum of Art
- Childe Hassam Purchase
- Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul
Books
- Eleanor C Munro. Originals : American women artists (New York : Da Capo PressDa Capo PressDa Capo Press, is an American publishing company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of Plenum Publishers. it had additional offices in offices in New York City, Philadelphia and Emeryville, California...
, 2000) (Worldcat link: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/43365794&referer=brief_results) ISBN 0-306-80955-9; ISBN 978-0-306-80955-2 - Hedda Sterne; Sarah L Eckhardt; Josef Helfenstein; Lawrence Rinder; Krannert Art Museum.; University of VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
. Uninterrupted flux : Hedda Sterne, a retrospective. (Champaign, Ill. : Krannert Art MuseumKrannert Art MuseumThe Krannert Art Museum is a museum of art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, USA. It is the second-largest museum in Illinois, with of space devoted to all periods of art, from ancient Egyptian to contemporary photography...
and Kinkead Pavilion, 2006) (Worldcat link: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/63660382&referer=brief_results) ISBN 1-883015-37-5; ISBN 978188301537 - Hedda Sterne; Queens Museum of ArtQueens Museum of ArtThe Queens Museum of Art is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States.-Overview:...
. Hedda Sterne, forty years : the Queens Museum, February 2-April 14, 1985. (Flushing, N.Y. : The Museum, 1985) (Worldcat link: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/12215770&referer=brief_results) OCLCOCLCOCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs"...
12215770 - Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 38
- Michel Butor, Hedda Sterne, La Révolution dans l'Arboretum (New York : Philippe Briet Editions, 1995). A collection of four poems by Michel Butor written for Hedda Sterne, and fifteen drawings by Hedda Sterne selected by Michel Butor from four series. Published in 500 copies, this work was printed in May 1995 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The fifteen color plates are of the same dimensions as the original drawings. The set of twelve folios is presented in a white case made in Phoenix, Arizona.
Articles
- "U.Va. Art Museum Exhibits Works by Abstract Impressionist Hedda Sterne", "UVa Today," January 2, 2007. Accessed July 25, 2007.
- Glueck, Grace. "Art in Review; Hedda Stern", "The New York Times," March 10, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2008.
- Simon, Joan. "Patterns of thought: Hedda Sterne". Art in America, 95.2 2007. 110-59