Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sternberg, Harry, 1904-2001
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content: Harry Sternberg papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1, 4; 0.2 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940s-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sterharr, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Writings by Sternberg include draft typescripts and manuscripts for a book on etching, a draft of a lecture "Art as Skilled Activity", a guide on buying art written with Verna Small for the Artists Equity Association, and other miscellaneous drafts of essays, talks, and autobiographical writings. Writings by others include a homemade newsletter written by artist Arthur Secunda, a statement written and signed by artist and political activist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and a thesis about Sternberg's work. Among the miscellaneous writings about Sternberg is an article by gallery owner Harry Salpeter. The author of a talk entitled "The Lost Island" is unidentified, but may have been written by Sternberg.