Sherman Drexler was an American figurative expressionist painter best known for his paintings of female nudes.
13 Facts About Sherman Drexler
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Sherman Drexler later taught at several institutions, including Cooper Union School of Art and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sherman Drexler was married to Pop artist and playwright Rosalyn Drexler.
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Sherman Drexler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925.
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Sherman Drexler spent his infancy in Seagate, Coney Island but he grew up mainly in the Bronx.
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Sherman Drexler was admitted to University of California, Berkeley as an English major, but began studying the works of Old Masters, Da Vinci in particular, and left Berkeley without completing his studies there.
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Sherman Drexler returned to New York in the same year and began teaching at a local junior high school.
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In 1958, Sherman Drexler made his New York premier with an exhibition at the Seven Arts Gallery.
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Sherman Drexler enrolled at Hunter College where he studied under prominent artists including Robert Motherwell.
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Sherman Drexler met and befriended Franz Kline, Andy Warhol and Alex Katz.
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In 1966, Sherman Drexler was awarded a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
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In 1983, Sherman Drexler made a journey to the Cave of Altamira in Spain and the Grotte Chauvet in southern France.
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Sherman Drexler died on July 19,2014, of cancer at his studio in Newark, New Jersey.