1940s Signed Print of “Girl With Chickens” by Harry Sternberg

A long vertical signed print of a girl holding a chicken in front of 2 chicken crates or boxes. Heavy bold lines with colorful accents on her dress and the chickens. Framed in a midcentury gilded wood frame with linen and off white mat.

Harry Sternberg (1904 – 2001) was active/lived in New York, California. Harry Sternberg is known for Modernist genre, mural, graphics, portrait painting. As an acclaimed member of a generation of American artists devoted to exposing social injustices, Harry Sternberg painted many important, great works of art. Sternberg was one of the great advocates of twentieth-century Social Realism. He worked with themes such as the nobility of labor, the despair of unemployment and the de-humanizing aspect of industrial labor. The artist’s prints and paintings addressed the labor movement, the war against fascism, and racial injustice. Sternberg’s level of dedication to the issues he used as inspiration ran parallel with his commitment to producing meaningful art.

Signed Sternberg in crayon or pencil in the bottom right corner. Unnumbered.

45″ x 26 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ in frame
28″ x 11 1/2″ image