Sterne, Stella Meyer (Mrs. Joseph Johnson Sterne). (1870-1963). B: New York. D: Philadelphia.Painter, watercolorist, craftsperson.San Antonio.Studied: Alabama; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts;Philadelphia School of Design for Women; Xavier Gonzalez;José Arpa; Robert Jenkins Onderdonk; Robert Julian Onderdonk; Thomas Pollock Anschutz.Exhibitions: Wanamaker's Belmaison Galleries, New York,1921; José Arpa Student Exhibition, 1926, 1927, 1928, A Study in Purple, Bathing Girls, A Road in Autumn; Leon Springs Art Colony Exhibition, 1930; San Pedro Playhouse Gallery, 1931, (joint with J. J. Sterne), 1932; San Antonio Local Artists Exhibition, 1931, Still Life, 1932, 1933, The Studio, 1943, Lobster Shacks (watercolor); Arts and Crafts Exhibition, San Pedro Playhouse, San Antonio, 1932, (hand painted boxes); San Antonio YMCA, 1933; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1941 (watercolor).Sterne's husband was artist J. J. Sterne. She entered a painting in the Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio in1928. She spent parts of 1932 painting on the New England coast. After her husband' death in 1935, she spent a year in New York. Sterne moved to Philadelphia where she remained active as an artist.Sources: Powers; 1930 Census; Witte Memorial Museum Art8, 1937.Files; San Antonio Light, November 22, 1931 and February
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