Catalogue
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Oil on board
- Dimensions
- 11 5/8 x 37" (29.5 x 94 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Honoré Sharrer
Artist
Painting
Honoré Sharrer was an American painter whose work engaged social realism and figuration in the postwar period. Working primarily in oil, she developed a distinctive approach to narrative composition that examined labor, domesticity, and collective experience. Her paintings combined meticulous draftsmanship with a formal vocabulary that resisted both abstraction and sentimentality, establishing her as a significant figure in American figurative practice of the mid-twentieth century.
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Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
Studies for Workers and Paintings
1943 · Ink, pencil, gouache, and pressure-sensitive tape on paper
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- Honoré Sharrer
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Oil on board
- Dimensions
- 11 5/8 x 37" (29.5 x 94 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1943-M068356
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified