RONALD N. SHERR

George Bush, forty-first President
of the United States (1989-1993) - Smithsonian Institution,
National Portrait Gallery
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AWARDED ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA GOLD
MEDAL
RONALD N. 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. In 1991, he won the Hubbard Art Award (worth $250,000)
from the Hubbard Art Museum in Ruidoso, New Mexico. In 1995, his official
portrait of President George Bush was unveiled for the National Portrait
Gallery, in Washington, DC. 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.
Mr. Sherr is represented in the Phoenix Art Museum; the Smithsonian
Institution; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Yale University;
Princeton University; the State House, Trenton, New Jersey (official
portrait of former Governor J. Florio); the Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston,
South Carolina; US Dept. of the Treasury and in many private collections
in the US, Europe, and Japan. He has previously taught at the National
Academy of Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Art Students
League of New York and has conducted painting seminars at the Gallery
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