Online Publications & Interviews
“To Sing Close,” an essay by Eleanor Nairne
Published online by Victoria Miro as part of their “Long Read” series, this essay was first published on the occasion of the exhibition Hedda Sterne at Victoria Miro Mayfair, the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK, and appears in the accompanying book.
January 2020
Hedda Sterne: Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968
Published online by Van Doren Waxter, including new scholarship by Nancy Princenthal. First published on the occasion of the exhibition Hedda Sterne: Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1969 at Van Doren Waxter, New York.
November 2018
Hedda Sterne: Machines, 1947-1951
Published online by Van Doren Waxter, first published on the occasion of the exhibition Hedda Sterne: Machines, 1947-1951 at Van Doren Waxter, New York.
March 2016
Interview Transcript
Hedda Sterne interviewed by Phyllis Tuchman for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project
December 17, 1981
Select Bibliography
Eleanor Nairne, “To Sing Close,” in Hedda Sterne, Exhibition catalogue (London: Victoria Miro, Mayfair, 2020).
Nancy Princenthal, “Hedda Sterne: Variable Terrain,” in Hedda Sterne: Structures & Landscapes, 1950-1968, Exhibition catalogue (New York: Van Doren Waxter, 2018).
Hedda Sterne: Machines, 1947-1951, Exhibition catalogue (New York: Van Doren Waxter, 2016).
American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, and Politics (New York and London: Routledge, 2016).
Women of Abstract Expressionism, Exhibition catalogue (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2016).
Sarah Boxer, “The Last Irascible,” The New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010.
Joan Simon, “Patterns of Thought: Hedda Sterne,” Art In America, February 2007, 110-119, 159.
Sarah Eckhardt, Josef Helfenstein, Lawrence Rinder, and Hedda Sterne, Uninterrupted flux: Hedda Sterne, A Retrospective, Exhibition catalogue (Champaign, IL: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 2006).
Philippe Coste, “Témoignages: Hedda Sterne,“ Lire, Hors-Série March 2006, 40-42.
Annette Reich, “Hedda Sterne,” in Abstrakter Expressionismus in Amerika: Lee Krasner, Hedda Sterne, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Exhibition catalogue, Kaiserslautern: Pfalzgalerie, 2001, 73-103.
Mary Ann Caws, “Hedda Sterne: Re-Cognizing the Last of the Irascibles,” Art Papers, September/October 2000, 22-27.
Grace Glueck, “Hedda Sterne: Over the Years; Paintings and Drawings from the 1950s to 1990s,” New York Times, March 6, 1998, sec. E, 42.
Dore Ashton, essay in Hedda Sterne, dessins (1939-1998), Exhibition catalogue (Caen, France: Bibliothèque Municipale, 1998).
Ann Eden Gibson, Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Siobhan M. Conaty, Art of This Century: The Women, Exhibition catalogue (New York: Stony Brook Foundation / Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997).
Michel Butor and Hedda Sterne, La revolution dans l’arboretum (New York: Philippe Briet, 1995).
Michael Leja, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
Anney Bonney, “Interview with Hedda Sterne,” Bomb, Spring 1992, 54-59.
Bradford Collins, “Life Magazine and the Abstract Expressionists, 1948-1951: A Historiographic Study of a Late Bohemian Enterprise,” Art Bulletin, June 1991, 283-308.
Dore Ashton and Ileen Sheppard, Hedda Sterne: Forty Years, Exhibition catalogue (Queens, NY: Queens Museum, 1985).
Fred Licht, Hedda Sterne: A Painting Life, Exhibition catalogue (New York: CDS Gallery, 1982).
Eleanor C. Munro, Originals: American Women Artists (New York: De Capo Press, 1979).
Lee Hall and Katherine Gamble, Hedda Sterne: A Retrospective, Exhibition catalogue (Monclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1977).
“The Artist in the Tractor Works: A Portfolio of Paintings by Hedda Sterne.” Fortune, July 1961, 132-137.
Nathaniel Pousette-Dart, American Painting Today (New York: Hasting House, 1956).
Katherine Kuh, American Artists Paint the City: XXVIIIth Biennale, Venice, Exhibition catalogue (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956).
Hedda Sterne, “Documents: From Studio to Gallery,” Art Digest, October 15, 1954, 4.
Rosalind Constable, “Seven Painters and a Machine,” Fortune, June 1954, 127-131.
L. C., “Hedda Sterne e suas máquinas,” Habitat - Revista das Artes no Brasil, 1952, 21-24.
Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, and Bernard Karpel, Modern Artists in America (New York: Wittenborn Schultz, 1951).
“Steinberg and Sterne: Romanian-Born Cartoonist and Artist-Wife Ambush the World with Pen and Paintbrush,” Life, August 27, 1951, 15.
“Irascible Group of Advanced Artists Led Fight against Show” Life, January 15, 1951, 34.
“19 Young Americans,” Life, March 20, 1950, 82-93.
Hedda Sterne et al., “The Ides of Art: The Attitudes of 10 Artists on their Art and Contemporaneousness,” Tiger's Eye, December 1947, 42-46.