Harry Sternberg (1904-2001)
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"Blast Furnace #1" dated 1946 (see comments below), Etching and Crayon Aquatint. Edition: 250 (?). Signed in pencil lower right, H Sternberg. Title from Warner (1994)
Image: 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (302 x 216 mm). Sheet: 14 7/8 x 12 inches (378 x 305 mm).
References: Fleurov 2000:65, Plate 26; Moore 1975 #147; Warner 1994:75, Plate 54; Reese 1949:194.
Inventory ID: 1170
Image: 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (302 x 216 mm). Sheet: 14 7/8 x 12 inches (378 x 305 mm).
References: Fleurov 2000:65, Plate 26; Moore 1975 #147; Warner 1994:75, Plate 54; Reese 1949:194.
Inventory ID: 1170
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Comments:
Very good condition. Generous margins. A fine print published by the Associated American Artists. A Purchase Prize winner in the AAA's National Print Competition, 1946. A larger lithographic version was made of the same subject (see Moore 1975 #148 Blast Furnace #2). Based on Sternberg's observations of the steel industry in 1936 and 1937. There is some confusion about this print. The catalogue raisonné by Moore (1975), who worked with input from Sternberg, dates this print as 1937, with no statement of edition size. A later volume on Sternberg's prints (Warner 1994) states a date of 1946 and publication through Associated American Artists in an edition of 250. Warner, who also had input from Sternberg, may be correct. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year 1938 (Dodgson 1938:Plate 95) is the larger, and reversed, Blast Furnace #2 image (also seen in Fleurov 2000:65, Plate 26). It seems safe to assume that Blast Furnace #1 is not the 1937 print, but rather the 1946 issue.
Very good condition. Generous margins. A fine print published by the Associated American Artists. A Purchase Prize winner in the AAA's National Print Competition, 1946. A larger lithographic version was made of the same subject (see Moore 1975 #148 Blast Furnace #2). Based on Sternberg's observations of the steel industry in 1936 and 1937. There is some confusion about this print. The catalogue raisonné by Moore (1975), who worked with input from Sternberg, dates this print as 1937, with no statement of edition size. A later volume on Sternberg's prints (Warner 1994) states a date of 1946 and publication through Associated American Artists in an edition of 250. Warner, who also had input from Sternberg, may be correct. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year 1938 (Dodgson 1938:Plate 95) is the larger, and reversed, Blast Furnace #2 image (also seen in Fleurov 2000:65, Plate 26). It seems safe to assume that Blast Furnace #1 is not the 1937 print, but rather the 1946 issue.
