John E. Berninger (American, Pennsylvania, 1897 to 1981)
John Berninger from Allentown, Pennsylvania, is considered to be part of the New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists who were influenced by the work of Walter Emerson Baum. Berninger was a student in Baum’s first art class in 1926 and in 1932 became an art instructor himself at the Kline-Baum Art School. In 1936 he became the first curator of the Allentown Art Museum.
Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Galleries, Inc., March 2009.