Sandor Bernath was born in Hungary and lived in Budapest before coming to the United States, where he spent time in New York City and Eastport, Maine. An illustrator and painter, Bernath is perhaps best known for his crisp, stylized watercolors of sailing yachts, but he also painted genre and village scenes, birds, and coastal views. He was a member of the New York Watercolor Club and the American Watercolor Society. His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1920s and at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Some of his paintings are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, which featured them in its 1984 publication, American Watercolors, Pastels and Collages. Bernath moved to Belize, Honduras for the last few years of his life and died there in 1984.