One of the most prolific, popular and longest living student of Robert Henri’s “Ashcan” style of American modernism,
Theresa Bernstein – studying at the Art Students League in New York – contributed to and lead the clarion call of
a liberating, personalized American modernism. Nothing captures her diverse and inclusionary modernist ethos than
her beloved beach figures – squint and imagine this provocative scene today!
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Italian Fishing Boats, Gloucester Harbor, 1926
Gloucester Beach, 1920
Fishermen at the Wharf
A leading modernist and artistic innovator of his time, William Meyerowitz applied his vast creativity to the mediums of print, etching, watercolor, and oil painting. Meyerowitz and his wife, Theresa Bernstein, split their time between Manhattan and Gloucester, and his Gloucester scenes are the most sought-after by collectors.
Cripple Cove
William Meyerowitz exhibited his early street and harbor etchings at the Gallery-on-the-Moors (1916-1922), Ledge Road, East Gloucester, alongside Bernstein, Beaux, Peterson, Duveneck, Lever, Mulhaupt, Hassam, Pendergrast, Lie, Sloan and Davis. Known for capturing the spontaneity of these scenes, favored subjects were the
colorful encounters along the cow path up Mount Vernon Street.