THERESA FERBER BERNSTEIN
Birth place: Philadelphia, PA / Death place: New York, NY
Addresses: NYC; East Gloucester,
MA, 1998
Profession: Painter, writer,
etcher
Studied: Philadelphia School of
Design (now Moore College) with Henry B. Snell, Eliot
Daingerfield, Daniel Garber, Harriet Sartain, Sam Murray,
1907-11; Art Students League with William Merritt Chase
Exhibited: Art Institute of
Chicago, 1914-40; Greene Traveling Fellowship; Pan-Pacific
Expo, San Francisco, 1915; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art,
1916-38; National Academy of Design, 1916-46; Soc.
Independent Artists, 1918-44 (except for 1932); Milch
Gallery, NYC, 1919 (first solo); Corcoran Gallery, 1921-41;
Philadelphia Plastic Club, 1925 (Shilliard Gold Medal);
Sesqui-Centennial Intern. Expo, Philadelphia 1926; French
Institute of Art & Letters (Jeanne d'Arc Medal); Dayton Art
Institute, 1930-38; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1935-39;
National Association of Women Artists (jury awards,
1938-59); American Color Print Society (prize); Philadelphia
Print Club (prize); Golden Gate Exhibition, 1939; Carnegie
Institute; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Fine
Art; Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum of Art, 1930-39;
American Painters, Metropolitan Museum of Art,1950;
Smithsonian Institute,1956; Grand Central Gallery, NYC and
Bar Harbor (ME) Gallery, 1970s; North Shore Art Association,
1971 (Johnson award); NYC Works Progress Administration
Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, 1977; Stamford Museum
(Centennial Exhibition) 1990; Museum of the City of NY,
1990; J. Whalen Fine Arts, NYC, 1998 (70-year
retrospective); Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia,
PA, 1998 (retrospective, "The Philadelphia Ten"); Salons of
America
Member: North Shore Art
Association (charter member); American Color Print Society;
Society of Artists and Etchers; Society of Independent
Artists; Gloucester Society of Arts; Cape Anne Fine Arts;
Plastic Club; Ten Philadelphia Painters; National
Association of Women Artists ; Audubon Artists Am. (jury
member, 1950-); SAGA; Allied Artists America; NY Society of
Women Artists (director,1928-).
Work: Art Institute of Chicago;
Library of Congress; PMG; Brooklyn Museum; Princeton
University; Dayton Art Institute; Whitney Museum of American
Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harvard University;
Phillips Art Gallery, Washington, DC; National Museum,
Smithsonian Institute Commissions: First Orchestra in Am.,
Treasury Department for Mannhein, PA, 1940; portrait of
Prof. David Lyons, Harvard Univ. Biblical Mus. Faculty,
1954; portrait of Pro. Robert Pheiffer, Harvard Universty,
1956; portrait of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah,
1959.
Comments: A realist painter and
expressive colorist known for her urban and shoreline
scenes. In 1998, at age 108, she revealed that her secret to
longevity was, "I don't count." Married to painter and
etcher William Meyerowitz for 62 years. Teaching: director,
summer art course, Gloucester, MA, 1932-69. Works Progress
Administration artist. Publications: William Meyerowitz (1958); History of Jewish Artists (1958, Zukunft); History of Cape Ann Artists (Gloucester Times, 1970); History North Shore AA (1972); History New York Soc.
of Women Artists (1972).
Sources: Who’s Who 1973; Who’s Who
1947; J. B. Nelson, article, Int. Studio (1925);
Dorothy Adlow, article, Christian Science Monitor (1929); E.A. Jenell, articles, New York Times, (1945); Menorah Journal (1948); Pisano, One
Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 30; New York City WPA Art, 9 (w/repros.); Talbott and
Sidney, The Philadelphia Ten. |