Oral history interview with Harry Sternberg
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 23 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sternberg, Harry, 1904-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Yard, Sally
label: Interviewee
content: Hoehn, Robert
topic: label: Topic
content: Philosophy
label: Topic
content: Art -- Philosophy
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for this interview provided by Robert Hoehn grant.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sternberg, Harry, 1904-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Yard, Sally
label: Interviewee
content: Hoehn, Robert
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Harry Sternberg (1904-2001) was a Graphic artist/painter of Escondido, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1999 March 19-2000 January 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sternb99
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Harry Sternberg, conducted 1999 March 19-2000 January 7, by Sally Yard, for the Archives of American Art, in Sternberg's studio and nearby restaurant in Escandido, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sternberg discusses his early life in New York, his studio, teaching and the WPA in NYC in the 1930s, including artists' camaraderie and causes. He remembers his childhood and youth; he speaks about his religion and culture. Robert Hoehn also participated in the interview.
label: Scope and Contents
content: During a discussion about printmaking, Sternberg recalled a Martin Schongauer print and the first meeting with Bob Hoehn at the San Diego Museum of Art. He talks about the nature of doing prints and the dialogue with and challenge of the medium. In this context he mentions printer Will Barnet. Among his early exhibition activity, Sternberg recalls his first gallery exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery in NYC, his first review, which was in New Yorker, and his first museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.