Born in 1900 in Ostre Aker, Norway, Bernhard Berntsen came to America when he was 19, settling in New York. Soon he was building skyscrapers, threading across open I-beams hundreds of feet in the air; at the same time the open steel and the men who worked there became the subjects of his oils, pastels and charcoals. Over the decades following Berntsen worked with artistic luminaries including Deigo Rivera, Suzuki and J. S. Curry and extended his vision...