Harry Sternberg: A Voice for Labor and Surrealist Vision Harry Sternberg (1904–2001) stands as a singular figure in American art history—a painter, printmaker, and educator whose career spanned decades of artistic exploration and unwavering commitment to social justice. Born in New York City on July 19, 1904, the youngest son of Russian and Hungarian immigrants residing in a tenement apartment on the Lower East Side, Sternberg’s forma…