RONALD
SHERRs portraits of notable Americans include former
presidents, Supreme Court justices, senators and governors
as well as leaders in business, medicine, academia and
the arts.
His portraits of General Colin Powell and of President
George H. W. Bush, commissioned by the National Portrait
Gallery, were presented to the public in December 2012
and in November 1995, respectively. His portrait of Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy will hang in the Supreme Court, upon
Kennedys retirement. Sherrs historic double
portrait of the Bush Presidents 41 and 43 (who posed for
him at Camp David) hangs at the George H. W. Bush Library
in College Station, Texas.
In 1991, he won the Hubbard Art Award ($250,000.00) from
the Hubbard Art Museum in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Other awards
include an Allied Artists of America Gold Medal of Honor,
1986; International Editorial Design Competition; cover
art for Time Magazine (a portrait of Andreas Papandreou);
Benjamin Altman Figure Prize, National Academy of Design;
the Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize, National Academy
of Design; Greenshields Foundation Grants and a Stacey
Foundation Grant.
Among the institutions representing Sherr are the National
Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
DC; Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, DC;
US Department of the Treasury, US Department of Energy
and US House of Representatives, all in Washington, DC;
Yale University; Princeton University; Duke University;
Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, Gerald Ford
School of Public Policy; Pomona College, Claremont McKenna
College; The State House, Trenton, New Jersey (official
portrait of former Governor James J. Florio); The State
House, Boston, Massachusetts (official portrait of Governor
Argeo Paul Cellucci). He is also represented in private
collections throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His teaching
career spanned twenty-five years, with long tenures at
the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League
of New York. Additionally, he has taught at the Fashion
Institute of Technology and conducted painting seminars
at the Gallery of San Juan, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sherr was born in New Jersey in 1952. He studied at the
DuCret School of Art in New Jersey and at the National
Academy of Design with Daniel E. Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein,
and privately with Burton Silverman. Sherr currently splits
his time between his studios in Hong Kong and New York
City.
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