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1913 Biddeford, Maine - 1999. Known for: Genre, native figure, portrait.
Some of the following biography is based on information provided by Dr. C.P. Estes. A painter of portraits, especially Indian subjects, Bettina Steinke was raised in New York City, where she studied... Read full biography
Some of the following biography is based on information provided by Dr. C.P. Estes. A painter of portraits, especially Indian subjects, Bettina Steinke was raised in New York City, where she studied at Cooper Union and at the Phoenix School. She worked as an illustrator and married photographer Don... Read full biography
Some of the following biography is based on information provided by Dr. C.P. Estes. A painter of portraits, especially Indian subjects, Bettina Steinke was raised in New York City, where she studied at Cooper Union and at the Phoenix School. She worked as an illustrator and married photographer Don Blair, and they often worked together with her as the artist-illustrator, and he, the documentary photographer. They traveled to Central and South America, the Arctic and Alaska where she did... Read full biography
Some of the following biography is based on information provided by Dr. C.P. Estes. A painter of portraits, especially Indian subjects, Bettina Steinke was raised in New York City, where she studied at Cooper Union and at the Phoenix School. She worked as an illustrator and married photographer Don Blair, and they often worked together with her as the artist-illustrator, and he, the documentary photographer. They traveled to Central and South America, the Arctic and Alaska where she did portraits of the natives. At age 24, she earned acclaim for portraits of maestro Arturo Toscanini and all 108 members of the NBC orchestra. In 1949, she and her husband moved West, first to Claremore, Oklahoma, then Taos, New Mexico, and in 1955 settled in... Read full biography
Some of the following biography is based on information provided by Dr. C.P. Estes. A painter of portraits, especially Indian subjects, Bettina Steinke was raised in New York City, where she studied at Cooper Union and at the Phoenix School. She worked as an illustrator and married photographer Don Blair, and they often worked together with her as the artist-illustrator, and he, the documentary photographer. They traveled to Central and South America, the Arctic and Alaska where she did portraits of the natives. At age 24, she earned acclaim for portraits of maestro Arturo Toscanini and all 108 members of the NBC orchestra. In 1949, she and her husband moved West, first to Claremore, Oklahoma, then Taos, New Mexico, and in 1955 settled in Santa Fe. Of her favorite subject, which was Indians, she said the Caucasian blue bloods she had painted literally paled in compa... Read full biography