Biografie von Albert Edward STERNER (1863-1946)

Birth place: London, England (of Am. parents)

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Newport, RI; NYC, 1894; Pittsfield, MA

Profession: Painter, etcher, lithographer, lecturer, writer

Studied: Birmingham, England; Académie Julian, Paris with Boulanger and Lefebvre; also with Gérôme in Paris.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1891; PAFA Ann., 1893-99, 1908-13, 1921, 1929-37, 1943-44; NAD, 1894, 1935 (prize); Paris Expo, 1900 (medal); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal); Munich, 1905 (gold); Corcoran Gal biennials, 1907-43 (8 times); Newport AA, 1912 (inaugural); S. Indp. A., 1917, 1920, 1936; AIC.

Member: ANA, 1910; NA, 1935; AWCS; NIAL; Am. Soc. PS&G; SAE.

Work: CI; MMA; Toronto Mus.; BM; South Kensington Mus.; Victoria and Albert Mus., London; Kunstgewerbe Sch, Mus. Pinacothek, Munich; Kunstgewerbe Schule, Dresden; Royal Print Coll., Italy; Honolulu Acad. A.; NYPL; LOC; Speed Mem. Mus., Louisville, Ky.; Yale Univ. Library; Harvard Club, Steinway Hall, NYC; portrait and dec., National Golf Links of America.

Comments: Spending periods of time in the U.S. as well as abroad, he created and exhibited paintings throughout his career, but he primarily won recognition as an illustrator and lithographer. Illustrator: Ten Tales of Francois Coppee," "Prue and I," by G.W. Curtis, "Eleanor," "Marriage of William Ashe," "Fenwicks' Career," by Mrs. H. Ward; article, "The Cezanne Myth," Harper's (between 1893 and 1905); Prosper Merimee's "Carmen" (translated from original 36 drawings). Author: "Prints Without Ideas," "Odilon Redon"; article in Prints.

Sources: WW40; 300 Years of American Art, 575, which cites a death date of 1957; Falk, Exh. Record Series.