Tony Scherman was known for his use of encaustic and portraiture to depict events of historical, cultural and popular significance.
16 Facts About Tony Scherman
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Paul Scherman relocated to London by 1958, and Tony Scherman arrived there by 1959 to live with his father.
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Tony Scherman was the youngest of the 48 artists, which included Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Peter Blake and Henry Moore.
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Tony Scherman returned to Toronto in 1976 with his wife, British artist Margaret Priest.
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Tony Scherman was recognized as an emerging artist with a growing international presence.
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Tony Scherman continued to be based in Toronto with more than 100 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, England and Europe and has been a visiting lecturer at numerous universities, art schools and public galleries in England, Canada and the United States since the mid-1970s.
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Tony Scherman was a sessional instructor at the University of Guelph Department of Fine Art and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Tony Scherman was part of the competition team for the Toronto public commission Cloud Gardens in the 1990s.
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In 2015, Tony Scherman was commissioned by Western University to paint the portrait of former Chancellor Joseph Rotman.
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Tony Scherman's painting Poseidon, 2007, is featured on the cover of Dr Gerald Cupchik's book The Aesthetics of Emotion, Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body.
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In 2005, Tony Scherman was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Tony Scherman died from cancer on February 28,2023, at the age of 72.
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Tony Scherman's work considers the human condition in paintings and works on paper that are done in thematic series.
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In contrast to Eugene Delacroix's 1830 heroic-image painting Liberty Leading the People Tony Scherman devised Jacques: The New Boss The rooster is an old Gallic symbol revived to express national resurgence during The French Revolution and now the unofficial national symbol of France.
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Tony Scherman expressed the horror of the Third Reich in a painting with a horse subject for Oradour.
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Tony Scherman stated that the term difficult "is often reserved for women of principle and determination; it is rarely applied to men".