The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) made
and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century.
This authoritative book about Bernstein provides an overview of her
life and artistic career, examining her relationships with
contemporary artists.
Bernstein's work is noteworthy, even among her more famous male
contemporaries such as John Sloan, Stuart Davis, and Edward Hopper,
all of whom she knew. Working in realist and expressionist styles,
she treated the major subjects of her time, including the fight for
women's suffrage, the plight of immigrants, World War I, jazz,
unemployment, racial discrimination, and occasionally explicitly
Jewish themes such as a synagogue interior or ritual objects such
as a menorah. She was a member of the American Artists' Congress
and painted a mural for the U.S. government during the Great
Depression.
Bernstein's portrait subjects include Albert Einstein, Martha
Graham, Judy Garland, Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, and Billie
Holiday, yet it is her particular sensibility and empathy with
those subjects that set her apart from her mostly male
contemporaries.
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"Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art" includes thematic essays
by Michele Cohen, Patricia M. Burnham, Elsie Heung, Sarah Archino,
Stephanie Hackett, Gillian Pistell, and by the editor, Gail Levin.
It features more than two hundred images, including full-color
reproductions of her art and rare documentary photographs, many
published here for the first time. It also includes a detailed
chronology of Bernstein's life, a list of public collections, and a
list of her writings.
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