Details: This lot includes the group of Albert Sterner ephemera shown in the corresponding image(s). This collections contains a number of love letters addresed to "Flora," illustrated letters, Christmas cards, pamphlets, photos and sketches. It should be noted that a number of these items have original drawings by the artist. Also present is a printer's proofs for "Who's Who in America" for the period 1942-43 (Volume 22) and for "The International Who's Who" (no date provided), with entries relating to Albert Sterner.

Albert Sterner (1863 – December 16, 1946) was an American illustrator and painter. Sterner was born in London, and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. After a brief period in Germany, he eventually moved to the United States in 1879 to join his family who had previously moved to Chicago. He soon began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began doing illustrations for magazines including Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Collier's. In 1888 he became a student at Académie Julian in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1918.
Nude, circa 1916

In 1918 he returned to America and began teaching at the Art Students League in New York.

Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941.

His New York Times obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations."


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Condition / Notes: These items are well preserved in plastic pouches kept within a black three-ring binder showing light shelfwear.

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