Sandor Bernath was born in Hungary in 1892 and immigrated to the United States as a youth. In the early 1920s, Bernath was an up and coming artist in New York City. He studied under Edward Hopper and was granted membership to the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Modern Artists. Though there are no records known, several works produced around 1922 indicate that Bernath was studying abroad in France and Czechoslovakia.
His last show on record was in Brooklyn in 1927. After that, his whereabouts have been speculated to include Maine, Pennsylvania, South America and New Mexico. It is thought that Bernath followed his contemporaries to Taos. Though he died in Belize in 1984, his last listed address showed him residing in Maine in 1945.
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Studied: National Academy of Design
Member: American Watercolor Society; New York Watercolor Club
Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923-1925, 1927; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1923-1926
Works Held: Brooklyn Museum
Further Reading: Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S., Vol. 1. Howard Creps et al. Dealers Choice Books: 2002.; Mantle Fielding's Dictionalry of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, 2nd Edition, Apollo, Poughkeepsie, NY: 1987.; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols.
