For sale is one of three original Maurice Sterne(1878-1957) drawings that we are selling here in our eBay Store 

These drawings came to us via Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barrie Pennsylvania from the donated collection of Helen Farr Sloan, wife of John French Sloan

This drawing features what looks like a seated Balinese figure possibly in prayer or smoking. We cannot discern. 

It is done in pencil on paper.

This piece is estate Stamped with the know. Ink stamp of Maurice Sterne's estate.

Condition: overall Toning. Stain/toning mark down center of drawing. See all pictures

Measurements 

Matting - 18" x 14"

Sight - 9 1/2" x 9"

Sheet - 12" x 10 1/2" (approx.)

Maurice Sterne (August 18, 1878 in Latvia – July 23, 1957 in Mount Kisco), was an Americansculptor and painter remembered today for his association with philanthropist Mabel Dodge Luhan, to whom he was married from 1916 to 1923.

He began his career as a draftsman and painter, and critics noted the similarity of his work, in its volume and weight, to sculpture. Ine late 1890s, Sterne studied under Alfred Maurer and Thomas Eakins at the National Academy of Design, and then traveled widely in Europe and the Far East. A trip to Greece in 1908 introduced him to archaic Greek statues, inspiring him to experiment with the form himself in stone.

1911-1914 he and his friend Karli Sohn-Rethel, a German painter, traveled together to India, the Far East and settled in Bali to paint and sketch, which further informed his later work.

Sterne came to New Mexico in 1916 at the suggestion of his friend, Paul Burlin, and settled in Taos until 1918.

His reputation was established by a show at the Scott and Fowles Gallery in 1926 and furthered by a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Artin 1933. In the mid-1930s, Sterne lived in San Francisco and taught at the California School of Fine Arts. he returned to the East Coast in 1945 and established a studio in Mount Kisco, New York. He was named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1938. From 1945 to 1950, he served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

In addition to his murals in the library of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Sterne's works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection. Sterne was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927, which he failed to win. Sterne died in 1957.