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Harry Sternberg Born
Harry Sternberg is born in New York City, New York. His parents were Hungarian and Russian immigrants who moved, with their children, to Brooklyn in 1910. -
Lewis Rubenstein Born
Lewis Rubenstein is born in Buffalo, New York. Throughout his life Rubenstein attends Albright Art School, Buffalo and Harvard College. He learns painting with Leger and Ozenfant in Paris, fresco (with Rico Lebrun under Galimberti in Rome, lithography with Emil Ganso, composition with Hans Hoffman, and plastic paint-ing techniques with Jose Guttierez in Mexico. -
Foundry Created
Lewis Rubenstein creates the lithograph Foundry which depicts a steel worker on the job. -
Forest of Flame Created
Harry Sternberg creates Forest of Flame. The lithograph depicts a factory with bellows of smoke rising from its immense smokestacks. -
World War II Starts
America is rapidly industrialized as it becomes one of the only producers capable of keeping up with the world's demands. Factories were converted for the war effort and more factories were created to meet demand. -
Assembly Line Created
Jolan Gross Bettelheim creates the lithograph Assembly Line for an exhibition for the groups Artists for Victory.
