Maurice Sterne

American, born Latvia

1877, Libau, Latvia
1957, New York, New York

Works in the Collection

Maurice Sterne

Seated Indian

1918
Maurice Sterne

Reclining Woman

1915
Maurice Sterne

Untitled (Reclining Nude)

1910
Maurice Sterne

Balinese Girl

1914
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Detail from Plate 15, "Environment," from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Detail from Plate 6, "Tradition," from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Detail from Plate 5, Intolerance , from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Detail from Plate 13, "False Witness," from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Detail from Plate 16, Ambition , from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Scale of Justice: Reason, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Scale of Justice: Cause and Effect, Sowing and Reaping, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Belief in Magic, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Competition and Monopoly, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

False Witness, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Scientific Evidence, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Environment, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C..

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Ambition, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Red Tape, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Scale of Justice: Intuition, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Superstition, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Greed, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Cruelty, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Justice Mitigated by Mercy, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Intolerance, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Continuity of the Law [triptych]The Future, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Continuity of the Law, flanked by the Spirit of Law & the Letter of the Law, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Continuity of the Law [triptych] The Past, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Tradition, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Ansel Adams, Maurice Sterne

Brute Force, from the portfolio Maurice Sterne: Murals in the Library of the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

1939
Maurice Sterne

Girl's Head

n.d.
Maurice Sterne

Two Figures

ca. 1912

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