Artist Statement
From the earliest efforts to irrigate the desert, to the postwar population explosion, to present-day suburban sprawl and conservation efforts, human enterprise has shaped the landscape of Los Angeles. It is perhaps appropriate that Robert von Sternberg, who has lived and worked most his life in Los Angeles County, identifies human incursions into the natural world as a recurring theme at the heart of his photographic practice.
On Robert von Sternberg’s Photography
Caitlin Silberman
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
ROBERT E. VON STERNBERG
Malibu, California 90265
rvsatzuma@yahoo.com
www.robertvonsternberg.com
Born: Glendale, California 1939
EDUCATION
BA, California State University, Long Beach, California, 1965
MA, California State University, Long Beach, California, 1969
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chairman, Art Department, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California, 1970-1971
Professor of Art (Emeritus), California State University, Northridge, 1971-2006
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF ART (a partial list)
Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, UC, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
CU Art Museum, UCB, Boulder, Colorado
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Eire Art Museum, Eire, Pennsylvania
Ekstrom Library Special Collections, UL, Louisville, Kentucky
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
Federal Reserve Board Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
Godwin-Tarnbach Museum, Queens College, Flushing, New York
Grinnell College Art Collection, Grinnell, Iowa
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Haverford College Library Special Collections, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hunter Museum of Modern Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
International Center of Photography, New York, New York
International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York
Museum of Art, UNH, Durham, New Hampshire
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Newark Public Library Special Collections, Newark, New Jersey
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, USU, Logan, Utah
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Saint Louis University Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York
Texas Tech University Museum of Art, Lubbock, Texas
The City of Raleigh Art Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Tweed Museum of Art, UM, Duluth, Minnesota
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, New York
Weismann Art Museum, UM, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, TSU, San Marcos, Texas
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