Theresa Bernstein

Art Brokerage: Theresa Bernstein American Artist: b. 1890-2002. Theresa Bernstein was known for her expressive, even Fauvist, beach scenes and urban scenes with startling color contrasts and bright accents of light. She studied with and exhibited with a Who's Who of American artists during her long and fruitful career. Among her teachers were Daniel Garber and William Merrit Chase. She exhibited with the Ashcan artists including Robert Henri and John Sloan. She had her first exhibition at the Milch Gallery in 1919. Her husband was the noted modernist painter William Meyerowitz. At a time when the contributions of women to art history is being reevaluated, it is important to note how rare it was for a woman to achieve the kind of acclaim that Bernstein did she had more than 50 solo exhibitions during her lifetime. As a woman crossing the gender threshold at the beginning of the 20th century, Bernstein experienced the excitement of that moment but was not spared the indignity of discrimination. Either paying a reluctant compliment or implying criticism, reviewers often described her work as having a "masculine" style. Whatever the gender construction of her style, she saw as a woman, incorporating into her art types and activities ignored by others, such as women at work, women artists, and suffragist parades. Listings wanted.