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Bernard Joseph Steffen
Born(1907-11-24)November 24, 1907
Neodesha, Kansas, US
DiedJuly 10, 1980(1980-07-10) (aged 73)
Flushing, New York, US
Known forPainter, printmaker

Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907 – 1980) was an American artist known for his lithographs. He was part of the American Scene and worked at the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Biography

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Steffen was born on November 24, 1907[1] in Neodesha, Kansas.[2] He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League of New York. His teachers included Thomas Hart Benton.[1][3]

He created lithographs for the New York Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.[3] In 1938 he painted the mural Neodesha’s First Inhabitants for the Neodesha Post Office.[4][1] Steffen's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.[5] He was also included in the Whitney Museum of American Arts 1940 and 1942 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting.[6]

Steffen died on July 10, 1980, in Flushing, New York.[2]

His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[8] the Library of Congress,[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the National Gallery of Art,[11] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[12] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] the Whitney Museum of American Art.[6] and the Worcester Art Museum.[13]

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  • Blown Soil, 1930s
    Blown Soil, 1930s
  • Dusty Plowing, c. 1939
    Dusty Plowing, c. 1939
  • Windy Day, c. 1935-1943
    Windy Day, c. 1935-1943

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Bernard Joseph Steffen". AskArt. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Bernard Steffen". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Benton, Thomas Hart; Steffen, Benard Joseph; Curry, John Steuart; Jones, Joe; Bacon, Peggy; Wolfe, Meyer; James, E. Allen; Baker, James; Gág, Wanda; Leighton, Clare; Taylor, Prentiss; White, Elizabeth (October 20, 1999). "The American Scene - Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 | Exhibitions". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  4. ^ ""Neodesha's First Inhabitants"". Living New Deal. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  5. ^ "National Serigraph Society Exhibition | Dallas Museum of Art". Dallas Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Bernard Joseph Steffen". whitney.org. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  7. ^ "Bernard Joseph Steffen". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  8. ^ "Haying - Bernard Steffen, Associated American Artists Inc". FAMSF. May 8, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  9. ^ Steffen, Bernard Joseph (1933). "Dusty plowing". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "Desolation". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  11. ^ "Bernard J. Steffen". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  12. ^ "Bernard Steffen". Worcester Art Museum. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
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