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William Scharf
William Scharf (February 22, 1927, Media, Pennsylvania – January 15, 2018, New York City, New York)[1] was an American abstract artist from New York City. Early lifeScharf grew up on Ridge Road in Media, Pennsylvania, the eldest of two children of Lester William Scharf and Ebba Scharf, née Anderson, of German and Swedish descent. At age ten he was befriended by the illustrator N. C. Wyeth, who encouraged him, gave him art supplies, and later recommended him to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, writing: "This boy has the stuff".[2] Scharf would remain in touch with Wyeth until his death in 1945. Education At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts he studied under Franklin Watkins, Daniel Garber, and Walter Stuempfig,[2] as well as under Abraham Chanin at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania.[2] In 1948 he received the Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, went to Paris and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.[2] During this time he also travelled to Italy, Belgium, and England, and in England became friends with Leslie Illingsworth of Punch magazine, to whom he sold drawings.[2] Personal lifeIn 1947 Scharf married Diana Denny, with whom he had one son, William Denny Scharf. The couple divorced in 1951. In 1952 Scharf moved to New York City,[3] where he became associated with the New York School of the Abstract Expressionist movement.[3] The following year he moved to a studio on West 53rd Street, adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art, where he secured employment as a museum guard. During this time he became friends with Dorothy Miller and Mark Rothko, as well as the photographer Jack Manning, the jazz musician Willie Dennis, and other artists frequenting the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village, including Julius Hatofsky, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning.[2]  In 1956 Scharf married Sally Kravitch — an actress with the stage name of Sally Jessup — daughter of the Savannah, Georgia lawyer Aaron Kravitch, and sister of Phyllis Kravitch. Mark Rothko was best man and his wife Mel was matron of honor. The reception was held at the Rothkos' apartment.[2] William and Sally had one son, Aaron Anderson Scharf, born in 1964. TeachingScharf taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford University, the Pratt Institute,[4] and The Art Students League of New York,[5] from which he retired in 2015.
Influences and styleScharf worked with Mark Rothko, and was influenced by his color field paintings;[3] other influences include the surrealist painter Arshile Gorky and the artists Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann.[6] Scharf's style draws on these influences to create compositions of organic and geometric shapes, that are immediately recognizable. In 1964 Scharf assisted Rothko on preliminary studies for the Rothko Chapel in Houston.[3][2]  On the Hollis Taggart Gallery website his work is described as follows:
Writing in Artforum in 2018, Christopher Rothko described Scharf as:
A history of Scharf's exhibits include San Francisco Art Institute (1969), the Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (2001),[9] and Richard York Gallery in New York City (2004),[10] as well as a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, and Meredith Ward Fine Art Gallery. He is currently represented by the Hollis Taggart Gallery[11] in New York City.[12][13] Exhibitions and collectionsSolo exhibitions2020 William Scharf: Elemental Color, Works from the 50s and 60s, Hollis Taggart, New York, New York [online][14] 2018 Primordial Language: Small Works by William Scharf, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, New York[15] 2016 William Scharf: Imagining the Actual, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, New York[16] 2012 William Scharf: Gold Dust, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, New York[17] 2010 William Scharf: Within White, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, New York[18] 2009 William Scharf: Blue Is, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, New York[19] 2008 Mercury Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts[20] 2005 Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, New York[21] 2004 William Scharf: Recent Paintings, Richard York Gallery, New York, New York[22] 2002 P.S.1/MOMA, Queens, New York[23] 2001 The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California[24] 2000–2001 William Scharf: Paintings, 1984–2000, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[25] 1993 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1993 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1987 The Armstrong Gallery, New York, New York 1987 The Elizabeth Bartholet Gallery, New York, New York 1987 Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, New York 1985 Saint Peter's Church, New York, New York 1984 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi 1982 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi 1978 High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia 1977 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, New York 1976 Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, New York[26] 1969 San Francisco Art Institute, California 1964 Griffin Gallery, New York, New York 1963 Zabriskie Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts 1962 The American Gallery, New York, New York 1962 David Herbert Gallery, New York, New York 1960 David Herbert Gallery, New York, New York 1950 Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Group exhibitions2020 Hollis Taggart, New York, New York 2014 Freeman Art, New York, New York 2005 National Academy of Design, New York, New York 2005 Peter McPhee Fine Arts, Stone Harbor, New Jersey 2003 National Academy of Design, New York, New York 2002 Richard York Gallery, New York, New York 2000 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York 2000 League Masters Now, Arts Student League, New York, New York 2000 The Twenty-Fourth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University, Kansas 1999 Artists/Mentors, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, New York 1998 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 1998 Germillion Gallery, Houston, Texas 1998 Self-Portraits, Art Students League, New York, New York 1996 Hot Art, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York 1995–96 Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. 1994 X Sightings, David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1993 American Painterly Abstraction, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1992 The Fifties, Part Two, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York 1991–92 National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C. 1991 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York 1991 American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York 1989 American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York 1988 National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C. 1982 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York 1980 Hirschl-Adler Gallery, New York, New York 1980 The Papier, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey 1979 Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1978 E. P. Gurewitsch Gallery, New York, New York 1977 Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey 1976 Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium 1976 Les Ateliers Du Grand Hornu Galerie D'Art, Brussels, Belgium 1974 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1973 New Images, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York 1970 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1963 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 1963 American Gallery, New York, New York 1963 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut 1963 The New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1962 American Gallery, New York, New York 1962 University of Illinois Annual, Urbana, Illinois 1962 The Vanderlip Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1959 Charleston Gallery of Art, Charleston, West Virginia 1959 The National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1959 Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1958–59 New Talent, American Federation of Art (Travelling Exhibition) 1957 Avant Garde Gallery, New York, New York 1958 MOMA, New York (European Travelling Exhibitions) 1958 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts 1958 The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas 1958 University of Illinois Annual, Urbana, Illinois 1957 Tanglewood Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1957 Five Contemporaries, Avant Garde Gallery, New York, New York 1956 Twenty-One Americans, Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York 1956 Museum Director's Choice, American Federation of Art (Travelling Exhibition) 1955 Four Young Americans, Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York 1949 Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1947–48 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annuals, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1946 The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1946 The Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Selected public collectionsBennington College, Bennington, Vermont[27] Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts Bradford Bank, Boston, Massachusetts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Dennos Museum Center, Northwest Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan Hobart College, Geneva, New York Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland[28] J. Patrick Lannan Museum, Venice, California Mercer College, Mercer, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C.[29] Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Rockefeller University, New York, New York Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California The School of Visual Arts, New York, New York UniDynamics Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, New York Winston-Salem Museum of Art, North Carolina Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut References
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