1916, Theresa F. Bernstein, In the Elevated -- de Young Museum (San Francisco)
From the museum label:
Theresa F. Bernstein enrolled in 1907 at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women before moving in 1912 to New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. Working at a time when women artists were unfairly judged by all-male exhibition juries, Bernstein often concealed her first name so that her work would be judged fairly by all-male exhibition juries. She became known as the ninth member of The Eight, affiliated with the Ashcan School.
This work depicts a passenger car on the Ninth Avenue Elevated railway, which Bernstein took between her parents' apartment on West 94th Street and her studio on West 55th Street. Like Honoré Daumier's Third Class Carriage, on view at the Legion of Honor, In the Elevated captures the experience of modern city dwellers in close physical proximity but psychologically isolated from one another.
1916, Theresa F. Bernstein, In the Elevated -- de Young Museum (San Francisco)
From the museum label:
Theresa F. Bernstein enrolled in 1907 at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women before moving in 1912 to New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. Working at a time when women artists were unfairly judged by all-male exhibition juries, Bernstein often concealed her first name so that her work would be judged fairly by all-male exhibition juries. She became known as the ninth member of The Eight, affiliated with the Ashcan School.
This work depicts a passenger car on the Ninth Avenue Elevated railway, which Bernstein took between her parents' apartment on West 94th Street and her studio on West 55th Street. Like Honoré Daumier's Third Class Carriage, on view at the Legion of Honor, In the Elevated captures the experience of modern city dwellers in close physical proximity but psychologically isolated from one another.