Painter. In an age of abstraction, she continued to embrace realism and attention to detail, with a large dose of fantasy as time went on. The child of a career Army officer and an artist mother, she was raised in a variety of places, including the Philippines and Paris, before graduating from high school in La Jolla, California. After winning a nationwide contest sponsored by "The American" magazine, she studied at Yale, and the San Francisco Art Institute, before working as a shipyard welder during WWII. Through the late 1940s, she created what is generally accounted her masterpiece, "Tribute to the American Working People". Completed in 1951, the five-part polytych is part of the Smithsonian collection, and was the subject of an exhibition in 2007. Her later work, such as "Resurrection of the Waitress" (1984) often focused on women's place on society. Sharrer has paintings on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and other facilities. She married historian Perez Zagorin (deceased April 26, 2009) in 1947, and lived her final years in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Painter. In an age of abstraction, she continued to embrace realism and attention to detail, with a large dose of fantasy as time went on. The child of a career Army officer and an artist mother, she was raised in a variety of places, including the Philippines and Paris, before graduating from high school in La Jolla, California. After winning a nationwide contest sponsored by "The American" magazine, she studied at Yale, and the San Francisco Art Institute, before working as a shipyard welder during WWII. Through the late 1940s, she created what is generally accounted her masterpiece, "Tribute to the American Working People". Completed in 1951, the five-part polytych is part of the Smithsonian collection, and was the subject of an exhibition in 2007. Her later work, such as "Resurrection of the Waitress" (1984) often focused on women's place on society. Sharrer has paintings on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and other facilities. She married historian Perez Zagorin (deceased April 26, 2009) in 1947, and lived her final years in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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