Sherrie McGraw
has been at the forefront of the American Art scene for over thirty years. As a young woman in Oklahoma City in
1978, she was urged by her teachers Richard and Edith Goetz to move to New York
to study at the famed Art Students League where they had studied within the
lineage of Robert Brackman and George Bridgeman. In her initial years at the League she studied primarily
with legendary artist, David Leffel, but also learned anatomy through Robert
Beverly Hale and Jon Zahourek at the New York Academy
After just a
few years in New York, she was already proceeding to make her own way as an
exceptional artist and began exhibiting and winning awards in shows at the
Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club, the Washington Square Outdoor Art
Exhibit, the Pastel Society, the Hudson Valley Art Association, and more. By the time she was thirty, she was
teaching classes at the Art Students League, having been asked to take over
those of Thomas Fogarty and Gustav Rehberger, as well as conduct her own.
Currently,
McGraw teaches workshops throughout the country. She gives lectures and
demonstrations for art institutions such as the Portrait Society of America,
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Brigham Young University, the Art Students
League of New York, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, the Los
Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and the Studio Incamminati in
Philadelphia. Her work has been
shown in major institutions including the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Gilcrease
Museum, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and the Tucson Museum,
as well as numerous prestigious collections, such as that of Senator John
Warner, the Mellon family, the Forbes family, John Geraghty, Forest Fenn,
Howard Terpning, John Mellencamp, George Carlson, Scott Christensen, and
musicians Ida Kavafian, Steve Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. She was the Vice-President of American
Women Artists.
McGraw is the
author of the highly acclaimed book, The Language of Drawing, which has been drawing worldwide
attention and can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art bookstore in New
York City. She edited and wrote a
foreword to The Drawings of Nicolai Fechin by Russia’s famed author Galina
Tuluzakova, and worked on an initial edit of Tuluzakova’s new book on Fechin’s
paintings, coming out later this year. Her work will be included in a book on
drawing by Juliette Aristides, also to be published this year. She is presently writing a book on painting.
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