Subsequently, she attended Yale University School of Art and the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute. Sharrer was reared in the Philippines, Paris and in several American cities before graduating from The Bishop’s School (La Jolla) in La Jolla, California.Īt 18, she was chosen out 230,000 applicants to win a national graphic arts Youth Forum prize sponsored by The American Magazine. Her mother, the former Madeleine Sachs, was also a painter. Her father, Robert Allen Sharrer, was an Army officer attached to the United States Military Academy there. Honoré Desmond Sharrer was born at West Point, N.Y. The term Magic Realism applied to other American painters including Paul Cadmus and George Tooker is often used to describe her later work.
Unlike many of her New York contemporaries including Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Sharrer did not take the turn to abstract expressionism and continued to paint in a figurative and academic style, although the content of her work was often mordantly witty. Sharrer and her painting Man at Fountain were featured in the Maissue of Life Magazine, in a cover story featuring "Nineteen Young American Artists." The "Fourteen Americans" show at the Museum of Modern Art, while often thought to proclaim the arrival of abstract expressionism did not do so unambiguously since it included those like Sharrer and George Tooker who are not modernists based on the litmus test of abstraction. This show featured a selection of up and coming artists including Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi (sculpture), and Saul Steinberg. She first received public notice when her work Workers and Paintings (1943) was included in the legendary 1946 "Fourteen Americans" show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated by Dorothy Canning Miller. It was the subject of a 2007 retrospective at the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Meticulously painted in oil on composition board in a style and color palette reminiscent of the Flemish Masters, the finished work is more than six feet long and three feet high and took her five years to complete. Flanking this central figure are smaller scenes of ordinary people-at a picnic, in a parlor, on a farm and in the schoolroom.
She first received public acclaim in 1950 for her painting Tribute to the American Working People, a five-image polyptych conceived in the form of a Renaissance altarpiece, except that its central figure is a factory worker and not a saint. Honoré Desmond Sharrer (J– April 17, 2009) was an American artist.
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