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Maurice Sterne was born in Russia in 1877 and came to the U.S. in 1888 and began his art training at Cooper Union, studying in the class of Thomas Eakins and under William Chase. After first exhibiting in 1902, he received a traveling fellowship and spent four years in France and Italy studying in the museums. In 1908 he studied, sculptured, and painted in Greece, then Africa, British India, Burma, and Java. He lived and painted on the Island of Bali for two years. In 1914 he began dividing his time between Anticoli, Italy and America. He executed murals for the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., a statue for Fairmount park in Philadelphia, and a War Memorial in Worcester, MA. Much of his later years he spent in Provincetown, MA, painting landscapes. Sterne was the first American artist to have a one-man show in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.