SHADOW AND LIGHT: The Life, Friends and Opinions of Maurice Sterne

by Charlotte Leon -Ed. Mayerson ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The recollections of artist Maurice Sterne, written shortly before his death in 1957, have been pieced together with sympathy and insight by Charlotte Mayerson and complemented to advantage by the words of others throwing light on his life and work. The result is an intimate and vivid book in which Sterne's presence is felt with constancy and immediacy. Born in Libau in 1878, Sterne came to America as a young boy when pressure on Jews in Moscow became unbearable. He worked at various jobs, in shops and factories, then studied at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. As a young man, he went to Paris, where Cezanne and Matisse were dominant as painters and Gertrude and Leo Stein predominant as patrons. He lived at Mt. Hymettus, Greece, then Anticoli, Italy, to which he returned throughout his life and which at his death named a street for him, then travelled through the Far East, staying for two years in Bali. A sojourn in America encompassed his marriage to the dynamic Mabel Dodge; he later married the serene Vera and lived happily with her. His works include a self portrait at the Uffizi in Florence, the Rogers-Kennedy War Memorial in Worcester, Mass.; his honors, many, include the first retrospective showing given an artist at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION