Bernard Joseph Steffen Explained

Bernard Joseph Steffen
Birth Date:November 24, 1907
Birth Place:Neodesha, Kansas, US
Death Place:Flushing, New York, US
Field:Painter, 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

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bernard Joseph Steffen . AskArt . 11 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Bernard Steffen . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 11 July 2022.
  3. Web site: 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 . The American Scene - Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 Exhibitions . Library of Congress . 11 July 2022 . 20 October 1999.
  4. Web site: "Neodesha's First Inhabitants" . Living New Deal . 12 July 2022.
  5. Web site: National Serigraph Society Exhibition Dallas Museum of Art . Dallas Museum of Art . 8 July 2022.
  6. Web site: Bernard Joseph Steffen . whitney.org . 12 July 2022 . en.
  7. Web site: Bernard Joseph Steffen . The Art Institute of Chicago . 12 July 2022 . en.
  8. Web site: Haying - Bernard Steffen, Associated American Artists Inc. . FAMSF . 12 July 2022 . en . 8 May 2015.
  9. Web site: Steffen . Bernard Joseph . Dusty plowing . Library of Congress . 12 July 2022 . en . 1933.
  10. Web site: Desolation . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 12 July 2022.
  11. Web site: Bernard Joseph Steffen . National Gallery of Art . 12 July 2022.
  12. Web site: Bernard J. Steffen . Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . 12 July 2022.
  13. Web site: Bernard Steffen . Worcester Art Museum . 12 July 2022 . en.

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