Bernhard H. Berntsen papers
name: label: Creator
content: Berntsen, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Hilmar), 1900-1992
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Norwegian Art and Craft Club (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Willard Parker Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Kahlo, Frida -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Suzuki, Sakari, 1900- -- Photographs
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American
label: Topic
content: Art museum attendance -- Pictorial works
label: Topic
content: Norwegian American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 2787 transferred from the National Collection of Fine Arts, who received it from Berntsen, 1975. Unmicrofilmed material donated 1993 and 2002 by Berntsen's great-grandson, Cliff Miller.
creator: label: Creator
content: Berntsen, Bernhard H. (Bernhard Hilmar), 1900-1992
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, mural painter, ironworker; Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y. and Va. Born in Oslo, Norway. Berntsen also was the model for the laborer who stands behind Lenin in the controversial Diego Rivera mural for Radio City Music Hall.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((60 items partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bernbern
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 2787 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sketches, photographs, notes, a scrapbook, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 2787: A notebook containing sketches and notes on the completion of the Willard Parker Hospital mural, New York City, which Sakari Suzuki painted with the assistance of Berntsen for the Federal Arts Project in 1936-1938; and 9 photographs of the Willard Parker mural, 2 of which show Suzuki and 2 of Suzuki and Berntsen at work. The Willard Parker Hospital was later demolished.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: A chronology of Berntsen's career; 24 sketches in pencil and in pen and ink of ironworkers and construction workers, ca. 1933-1934, and of visitors to the National Gallery where Berntsen was a guard, ca. 1966-1971; three letters from Bernsten to his wife Alma, 1947-1952; loose newspaper clippings, ca. 1933-1985, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (in Norwegian and English) concerning Berntsen's involvement with the Norwegian Art and Craft Club, and his paintings and sketches of workers at construction sites where he worked as an ironworker, ca. 1931-1976; two exhibition announcements, 1964 and 1986; photographs, ca. 1933-1987, mostly snapshots, include Berntsen painting, Bernsten in his National Gallery of Art guard uniform with Chief Justice Earl Warren, one of students and faculty of the Art Students League (ca. 1933-1934), one of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in New York, several of Berntsen and Suzuki at work on the Willard Parker Hospital mural, ca. 1938, of events sponsored by the Norwegian Art and Craft Club, and of works of art. Also included are photocopies of works of art.