Bernard Steffen
Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907 – 1980) was an American artist known for his Lithography, lithographs. He was part of the American scene painting, American Scene and worked at the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Biography Steffen was born on November 24, 1907 in Neodesha, Kansas. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League of New York. His teachers included Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Thomas Hart Benton. He created lithographs for the New York Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1938 he painted the mural ''Neodesha’s First Inhabitants'' for the Neodesha United States Post Office, Neodesha Post Office. Steffen's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. He was also included in the Whitney Museum of American Arts 1940 and 1942 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting. Steffen died on July 10, 1980, in Flushing, New York. His work is in the c ...
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Lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps.Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. (1998) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p 146 Carter, Rob, Ben Day, Philip Meggs. Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Third Edition. (2002) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p 11 Lithography can be used to print text or images onto paper or other suitable material. A lithograph is something printed by lithography, but this term is only used for fine art prints and some other, mostly older, types of printed matter, not for those made by modern commercial lithography. Originally, the image to be printed was drawn with a greasy substance, such as oil, fat, or wax onto the surface of a smooth and flat limestone plat ...
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