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Biography |
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1910 |
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Born in Bucharest, Romania as Hedwig Lindenberg |
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1928 |
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Enters University of Bucharest to study Art History and Philosophy but finds curriculum limiting and leaves after a year to do independent study. |
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1932 |
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Married Frederick Sterne |
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1938 |
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Exhibits in Paris |
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1941 |
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Barely escaping a massacre of Jews in her apartment building Hedda flees to New York. Meets Peggy Guggenheim through which she meets several artists.
Emigrated to New York, USA, to escape Nazi persecution |
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1942 |
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Exhibits with Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and Marcel Duchamp in "First Papers of Surrealism"; the first exhibition of surrealism in the United States |
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1944 |
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Divorces Frederick Sterne Becomes US citizen and marries Saul Steinberg |
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1942 - 1950 |
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Became the only female member of the "Irasible Eighteen" who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American Painting in the 1940s, was in famous photograph of the group published in Time Magazine in 1950. |
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1950 |
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Named one of country's best artists under age of 36 in March 20 issue of Life. |
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1957 |
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Awarded Second Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Annual |
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1960 |
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Sterne and Steinberg separate but remain close friends. Begins to disengage socially with the art world and leads an increasingly private life. |
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1963 |
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Fulbright Fellowship, Studied in Venice |
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1967 |
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First Prize, Art Institute of Newport Annual |
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1971 |
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American Academy of Arts & Letters, "Childe Hassam Purchase Award" |
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1984 |
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American Academy of Arts & Letters, "Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund Award" |
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2004 |
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Suffers stroke. Makes a remarkable recovery but her eyesight fails causing her to stop practicing her art. |
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2011 |
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Dies in New York, NY on April 8th |
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Exhibitions |
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2006 |
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Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Stern a Retrospective, Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois
Paintings and Drawings From Over 50 Years, CDS Gallery, New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Hedda Sterne: Forty Years, the Queens Museum, NY |
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1977 |
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Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey |
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1975 |
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Lee Ault & Company, NY |
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1973 |
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Rochester University
Upstairs Gallery, East Hampton |
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1972 |
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Clinton, NJ |
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1971 |
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Sneed Gallery |
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1968 |
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Rizzoli Gallery |
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1956 |
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Saidenberg Gallery
Vassar College |
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1956 |
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Art Institute of Chicago, "American Artists Paint the City" (group) |
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1955 |
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Corcoran Gallery Annual, Washington, D.C., '56, '58, '63 (group) |
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1955 |
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Museum of Modern Art, NY (group) |
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1955 |
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Arts Club of Chicago |
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1954 |
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual, '55, '57, '60, '61 (group) |
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1953 |
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Museo de Arte, SaoPaulo, Brazil
Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome |
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1949 |
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Whitney Museum Annual, '59, '67 (group) |
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1947 |
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Betty Parsons Gallery, '48, '50 '53, '54, '57, '58, '61, '63, '66, '68, '70, '74, '75, '78 |
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1945 |
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Mortimer Brandt Gallery, NY
Wakefield Gallery, NY |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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Hedda Sterne; Sarah L Eckhardt; Josef Helfenstein; Lawrence Rinder; Krannert Art Museum.; University of Virginia. Uninterrupted flux : Hedda Sterne, a retrospective. (Champaign, Ill. : Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 2006) |
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1985 |
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Hedda Sterne; Queens Museum of Art. Hedda Sterne, forty years : the Queens Museum, February 2-April 14, 1985. (Flushing, N.Y. : The Museum, 1985) |
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