Bernard Joseph Steffen

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.

Bernard Joseph Steffen
Born	(1907-11-24)November 24, 1907 Neodesha, Kansas
Died	July 10, 1980(1980-07-10) (aged 73) Flushing, New York
Nationality	American
Known for	Painter, printmaker

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^[7] in Flushing, New York.^[2]

His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,^[8] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[9] the Library of Congress,^[10] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[11] the National Gallery of Art,^[12] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,^[13] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[2] the Whitney Museum of American Art.^[6] and the Worcester Art Museum.^[14]

Gallery

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  Blown Soil, 1930s
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  Dusty Plowing, c. 1939
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  Windy Day, c. 1935-1943

References

1. "Bernard Joseph Steffen". AskArt. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
2. "Bernard Steffen". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
3. 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 (October 20, 1999). "The American Scene - Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 | Exhibitions". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
4. ""Neodesha's First Inhabitants"". Living New Deal. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
5. "National Serigraph Society Exhibition | Dallas Museum of Art". Dallas Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
6. "Bernard Joseph Steffen". whitney.org. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
7. "Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907-1980)". Find a Grave. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
8. "Bernard Joseph Steffen". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
9. "Haying - Bernard Steffen, Associated American Artists Inc". FAMSF. May 8, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
10. Steffen, Bernard Joseph (1933). "Dusty plowing". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
11. "Desolation". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
12. "Bernard Joseph Steffen". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
13. "Bernard J. Steffen". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
14. "Bernard Steffen". Worcester Art Museum. Retrieved July 12, 2022.

External links

•   Media related to Bernard Joseph Steffen at Wikimedia Commons