Forty autobiographical woodcuts
by Harry Sternberg on Kitakata
and Gutenberg papers. Text hand
set in Emerson. Case binding
covered in Richard de Bas paper
with silk spine and printed with a
woodcut by the artist that frames
a family photograph, circa 1918,
which is inset into the cover.
Edition of 40. 1991.

Bound volume $2,000.

Suite of forty hand printed
woodcuts $3,000.

Deluxe edition includes both the
suite of prints and the bound
volume $4,500.

Born in 1904 to immigrant parents on New York’s Lower East Side, Harry Sternberg took his fi rst art lesson
at the Brooklyn Museum at the age of ten. During the years 1922-26 he studied at the Art Students’ League
where he later taught for thirty-four years. In 1936 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the coal and steel industry. This resulted in a series of graphic works of great strength and renown. He moved to
California in 1967 and collaborated with Bella Lewitzky, a leading West Coast choreographer of modern dance at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts. His art was always centered on social commentary and in this
autobiography in pictures, he has cast his eye backward to the intimacy and idiosyncrasy of his own richly lived life. Harry died in 2001, still working at ninety-seven.