Sarai Sherman was a Pennsylvania-born Jewish American artist whose work, both in America and Europe shaped international views of women and abstract expressionism.
16 Facts About Sarai Sherman
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Sarai Sherman was a significant twentieth century painter and sculptor known for her abstract paintings, prints and ceramics.
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Sarai Sherman showed an early predisposition towards painting and was enrolled in an arts and graphics program around the age of 10.
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Sarai Sherman attended Kensington High School and continued to explore artistic themes and painting.
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Sarai Sherman studied at the prestigious Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania where she was exposed to seminal works of modern masters and she attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, headed at the time by Russian-born artist Boris Blai with faculty including Earl Horter and Honga Holm.
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Sarai Sherman graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in education and then enrolled into the Master of Arts program at the University of Iowa, graduating with a degree in art history and painting.
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Sarai Sherman was awarded a Fulbright Grant to paint in Italy.
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The experiences touched Sarai Sherman and became a turning point in her artistic development.
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From 1955 to 1960 Sarai Sherman worked in the United States.
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Sarai Sherman retracted her steps from Picasso to the Impressionists.
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Sarai Sherman was a part of the emergency response to the 1966 flood of the Arno in Florence Italy.
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Sarai Sherman was represented by the ACA Galleries in New York throughout the 1950s and then by the Forum Gallery.
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Sarai Sherman won numerous awards and prizes for her work including a Pepsi Cola award, Fulbright Foundation fellowship to Italy, a painting award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City and their Childe Hassam Prize ; in addition to many medals, citations and prizes in exhibitions throughout Italy and the Proctor Prize, National Academy of Design, New York City.
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Overarching themes in Sarai Sherman's work focused on concerns with humankind's inhumanity to one another, where form and content are one.
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Sarai Sherman began exploring three-dimensional form in ceramic sculpture in the early 1980s.
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Between 1987 and 1994 Sarai Sherman created major site-specific fresco and altarpiece commission in Cortona, Italy for the Guzzetti Chapel on the grounds of the Villa Corono.