With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Painting/Drawing
1920 – 2003
- Biography/Description of Work
Charlotte Joan Sternberg, illustrator and fine artist, was born in Meriden and attended the Yale School of Art with classmates Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator, and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. It was at Yale that Charlotte learned how to paint in egg tempera, and was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium. She exhibited with the Hartford Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and was a resident of Darien.
- Sources view
- Uconn database, http://charlottejoansternberg.com/about.html, http://www.askart.com/AskART/S/charlotte_joan_sternberg/charlotte_joan_sternberg.aspx, http://charlottejoansternbergbackstory.wordpress.com/, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rVEmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GwAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4022%2C494056, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlotte-Joan-Sternberg/363378133678986, Darien - New Canaan 1964 City Directory
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