Harry Sternberg (1904–2001) was an American painter, printmaker, muralist, and teacher associated with Social Realism. Born on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and raised in Brooklyn, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1922 to 1926 and established himself as a printmaker in the late 1920s.

During the Great Depression, he worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), producing murals and developing work focused on labor and social conditions, often based on direct observation.

He taught at the Art Students League for more than three decades and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936.

His work is held in major museum and institutional collections.