Sandor bernath biography examples

SANDOR BERNATH

(1892-1985?)

            Sandor Bernath was born in Hungary on December 30^th, 1892, far removed from the New England coast and the Yankee sailing ships that would become his favorite subjects.

He immigrated to New York either in his teens or early twenties, and began there a career in watercolor that flared with the urban lights of the Jazz Age before dissipating into the pastoral and, eventually, the unknown.

            In the landmark exhibition catalogue, Sandor Bernath: Watercolors, issued by the Smith Gallery of New York, Jennifer Krasinski suggests that Bernath’s January, 1922 solo exhibition at Mrs.

Malcolm’s Gallery on East 64^th Street served as the artist’s mainstream debut. In fact, he had exhibited prominently before, displaying In a Studio at the 52^nd Annual Exhibition (1919) of the American Water C