Honoré Sharrer: Chronology

• 1920 born July 12 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, to the painter,
• Madeleine Sharrer, and the army officer and West Point graduate, Robert Allen Sharrer
  
• 1920-33 lived as a child in Washington, D.C., the Philippines, Montgomery, Alabama, and New Orleans
  
• 1934-35 lived in Paris with parents and attended a French school; spent the summer painting in Brittany
  
• 1936-38 lived with parents in Coronado, California, graduated from the Bishop's School, La Jolla in 1938
  
• 1938 received American Youth Forum Prize from the American magazine
  
• 1938-39 studied at Yale University School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut
  
• 1939 exhibited at Golden Gate International Art Exhibition, San Francisco
  
• 1940-41 studied at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
  
• 1941 worked as a welder in shipyards in Sausalito, California
  
• 1943 moved to New York; worked as welder in shipyards in Hoboken, New Jersey; created window designs in Brooklyn and story sketches for an animated film company in New York
  
• painted Workers and Paintings, which was given by Lincoln Kirstein to the Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• 1944 painted a mural installed in the Thayer Hotel, West Point Military Academy, New York
  
• 1945-47 lived in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
• 1945-70 spent many summers in Vinalhaven, Maine
  
• 1946 received second prize from the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, First Spring Annual exhibition
  
• 1946-51 painted the five panels of polyptych, Tribute to American Working People (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.)
  
• 1947 married the historian and university professor, Perez Zagorin
  
• 1947-49 lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, while Zagorin taught at Amherst College
  
• 1948 named Woman Artist of the Year by Mademoiselle magazine
  
• 1949-50 lived in London
  
• 1951 received Norman Waite Harris Medal and Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago
  
• 1951-53 lived in Poughkeepsie, New York, while Zagorin taught at Vassar College
  
• 1953 birth of son, Adam Desmond Zagorin
  
• 1955-65 lived in Montreal while Zagorin taught at McGill University
  
• 1958-60 lived in London, Florence, and Oxford
  
• 1965-94 lived on a farm in Scottsville, New York, near Rochester, while Zagorin taught at the University of Rochester
  
• 1971 received Childe Hassam Purchase Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
  
• 1978 received Childe Hassam Purchase Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
  
• 1981 received Lilian Fairchild Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts from the University of Rochester, 1981
  
• 1984 received Gladys Emerson Cook Prize from the National Academy of Design, New York
  
• 1987 received Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from the National Women's Caucus for Art
  
• 2000 received Prize for Outstanding Accomplishment in Painting from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
  

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Shows

1951 Honoré Sharrer: Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1969 Paintings by Honoré Sharrer, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York

1981 Paintings by Honoré Sharrer, Forum Gallery, New York. Traveled to Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

1987 Paintings by Honoré Sharrer, Forum Gallery, New York

1990 Paintings by Honoré Sharrer, Forum Gallery, New York. Traveled to Dawson Gallery, Rochester, New York


Group Shows

1946 Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949 Ten Women Painters, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

1950 Nineteen Young Americans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Symbolic Realism in American Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1951 Contemporary American Painting, Art Institute of Chicago

1955 The New Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1959 The Art of Living, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

1961 Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Great Ideas of Western Man, Container Corporation of America, Chicago. Traveling exhibition.

1963 Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1964 Between the Fairs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1965 Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1966 Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1971 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

Realism and Surrealism in American Art, From The Sara Roby Foundation, organized by the American Federation of Arts. Traveling exhibition

1972 American Individualists at Work, From The Sara Roby Foundation, organized by the American Federation of Arts. Traveling exhibition


Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1976 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art

1977 American Art in the USSR, organized by Henry Geldzahler, Metropolitan Museum of Art, held in the former Soviet Union

1978 Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1978 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1979-81 The Working American, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution and District 1199, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1980 Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1981 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1982 Realism and Realities, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; and National Academy of Design, New York

1983 Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1987 Honor Awards Exhibition, National Women's Caucus for Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1991 Art of the Forties, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000 Modern Art Despite Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Collections

Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

Estate of Lincoln Kirstein, New York

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Newark Museum, New Jersey

San Diego Museum of Art

Sara Roby Foundation, New York

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

University of Rochester, New York