Education
Ine late 1890s, Sterne studied under Alfred Maurer and Thomas Eakins at the National Academy of Design, and then traveled widely in Europe and the Far East.
Ine late 1890s, Sterne studied under Alfred Maurer and Thomas Eakins at the National Academy of Design, and then traveled widely in Europe and the Far East.
He began his career as a draftsman and painter, and critics noted the similarity of his work, in its volume and weight, to sculpture. A trip to Greece in 1908 introduced him to archaic Greek statues, inspiring him to experiment with the form himself in stone. His reputation was established by a show at the Scott and Fowles Gallery in 1926 and furthered by a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1933.
In the mid-1930s, Sterne lived in San Francisco and taught at the California School of Fine Arts. he returned to the East Coast in 1945 and established a studio in Mountain.
Kisco, New New York He was named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938. From 1945 to 1950, he served on the United States. Commission of Fine Arts.
In addition to his murals in the library of the Department of Justice in Washington, District of Columbia, Sterne"s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection. Sterne died in 1957.