ARTIST: L William Scharf (Pennsylvania, New York, 1927-2018)
NAME: The Mirror Moves on (titled on verso)
YEAR: 1963
MEDIUM: gouache on paper
CONDITION: Very good.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 12 inches / 27 x 30 cm
MAT SIZE: 17 x 17 inches / 43 x 43 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
William Scharf was an American artist from New York City, he taught at The Art Students League of New York. Painting with acrylics, he was a member of the New York School movement. He apprenticed with Mark Rothko and was influenced by his color field paintings. He creates groups of paintings around the theme of a single color, working in a variety of scales and using shapes both geometric and biomorphic. Series have been dedicated to blue, silver, and gold, but black and white appear with the most frequency. The surrealist painter Arshile Gorky and the Abstract expressionism style found in the 1950s in New York City also influenced Scharf. His exhibits include San Francisco Art Institute (1969), the Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (2001), and Richard York Gallery in New York City (2004). Scharf's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Meredith Ward Fine Art, and Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City.