- Artist/Maker:
- Theresa Bernstein
- Bio:
- American, b. Austria, 1890-2002
- Title:
- Waiting Room Employment Office
- Date:
- 1917
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 29 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (74.9 × 100.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Soledad and Robert Hurst
- Accession Number:
- 2011-8
Not On View
Theresa Bernstein depicted the immigrant experience in her portrait of a diverse group of newly arrived women seeking household employment. As a late participant in the Ashcan School, a group of realist artists working in New York just before World War I, Bernstein captured the immediacy of urban life through her predominantly working-class subjects, focusing mainly on women.
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