RONALD SHERR’s
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 Kennedy’s retirement. Sherr’s 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 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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