Man and War
1942
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etching and aquatint in black
Dimensions
plate: 54.93 × 35.24 cm (21 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7993
Art Historical Context
Harry Sternberg’s *Man and War* (1942) is a powerful etching and aquatint captures the harrowing human toll of conflict during World War II. amid the global upheaval of the early 1940s, when the United States had just entered the war following Pearl Harbor, the print reflects the era’s widespread anxiety and anti-war sentiment. Sternberg a prominent American printmaker associated with Social Realism, used his art to comment on social injustices and the brutality of modern warfare, making this work a poignant artifact of its time. The medium—etching combined with aquatint in black ink—allowed ...
About the Artist
Harry Sternberg · 1904–2001
Harry Sternberg (1904–2001) was an American printmaker, painter, and educator whose long career made him one of the most influential figures in the development of American graphic arts during the twentieth century. Born in New York City, he studied at the Art Students League, which was then the principal training ground for socially engaged American artists, and the League's emphasis on draftsmans...