Central Park
Artist
Harry Sternberg
(American, 1904 - 2001)
Date1930
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Toni and Robert Crisell
CultureAmerican
Inscribedll: 'Central Park'; center '50 proofs'; lr: 'H. Sternberg'
Catalogue raisonnéMoore 69
Object numberPC2019.14.01
ClassificationsPrint Collection
DescriptionGroups of figures lounging on grass in Central Park (NY). Gnarled tree in center of composition.Interpretations Raised by Austro-Hungarian immigrant parents in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, Harry Sternberg (1904-2001) trained at the Art Students League of New York from 1922 until 1926. In his etchings from the 1920s Sternberg found inspiration in his New York milieu, representing the city’s subways, streets, parks, and denizens. Central Park is a pastoral idyll in the bustling metropolis, with various figures dozing, reading, sitting, and strolling through New York’s iconic Central Park. The composition revolves around the twisting, gnarled oak tree in the middle foreground, which anchors the print with its talismanic presence. During the Great Depression Sternberg served as a supervisor in the graphic arts division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) while earning recognition for his socially conscious lithographs and serigraphs. - John Murphy, Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints
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