Navajo of Monument Valley, 1973 |
Brought up in New York City, Bettina Steinke began winning prizes
for her portraits in high school. She studied at the Fawcett
Art Institute in Newark, New Jersey, and later at Cooper Union
and the Phoenix Art Institute in New York. Her first big job
was a series of 108 heads for the NBC Symphony Orchestra when
she was 23. Later, her portrait subjects included Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas
MacArthur and Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek. Steinke moved to Taos, New
Mexico, in 1955 and began the western phase of her career. |
Hall of Fame of American Portrait Painting