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Theresa Bernstein Figurative Paintings

American, 1890-2002
Born in Philadelphia in 1890, Theresa Bernstein showed early talent and interest in art. At the age of seventeen, she won a Board of Education scholarship to attend the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art, studying under Elliott Daingerfield, Daniel Garber, Harriet Sartain, Henry B. Snell and Samuel Murray. After her parents moved to New York City in 1911, she studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City. In the 1920s, along with John Sloan, she helped form the Society of Independent Artists. Bernstein was among the youngest of the urban realist painters, later known as the Ashcan School, to embrace what was then a bold modernist subject: city life as she observed it in the streets and public gathering places. The artist’s first solo exhibition was at the Milch Gallery in New York City in 1919. Bernstein also enjoyed countless exhibitions throughout the United States, and her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Bernstein’s powerfully organized, often monumental canvases of everyday people at concerts, parade or the beach have illuminated each decade of the 20th century and establish her as a unique genre painter with her own style of Modernism.
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Artist: Theresa Bernstein
Theresa Bernstein, "Crowded Beach, Coney Island, " Beach Scene
Theresa Bernstein, "Crowded Beach, Coney Island, " Beach Scene

Theresa Bernstein, "Crowded Beach, Coney Island, " Beach Scene

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in Rockport, MA

Painting size without frame: 9"x12" Painting size with frame: 14"x17" Painting is signed lower right corner. An energetic beach scene by Theresa Bernstein, dated 1915, depicting vac...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Theresa Bernstein Figurative Paintings

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Theresa Bernstein, American Modernist, "Coney Island", Foster Bros period frame
Theresa Bernstein, American Modernist, "Coney Island", Foster Bros period frame

Theresa Bernstein, American Modernist, "Coney Island", Foster Bros period frame

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in Rockport, MA

Painting size without frame: 15"x20 1/2" Painting size with frame: 21"x26 1/2" Period Foster Brothers Frame Painting is signed lower right. A lively boardwalk scene by Theresa Ber...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Theresa Bernstein Figurative Paintings

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"Woodland and Stream" Theresa Bernstein, Red Green Yellow Abstracted Landscape
"Woodland and Stream" Theresa Bernstein, Red Green Yellow Abstracted Landscape

"Woodland and Stream" Theresa Bernstein, Red Green Yellow Abstracted Landscape

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in New York, NY

Theresa Bernstein Woodland and Stream, circa 1980 Signed Lower Right Oil on canvas 19 x 23 inches Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class im...

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1980s Expressionist Theresa Bernstein Figurative Paintings

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"Untitled" Theresa Bernstein, Expressionist Work by American Ashcan Artist
"Untitled" Theresa Bernstein, Expressionist Work by American Ashcan Artist

"Untitled" Theresa Bernstein, Expressionist Work by American Ashcan Artist

By Theresa Bernstein

Located in New York, NY

Theresa Bernstein Untitled, circa 1990 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class immigrant par...

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