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Painting, Color, Design
William Scharf studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes
Foundation, and at the Acad„mie de la Grande Chaumiľre in Paris.
His work has been exhibited in many museums and theme exhibitions, including
those of the Guggenheim Museum in 1982, and the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970
and 1974. His paintings have been shown in the European Traveling Exhibition of the
Museum of Modern Art, the American Federation of Arts Museumsâ Directorâs Choice,
and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annuals.
Mr. Scharf has been the subject of numerous enthusiastic reviews. Hilton Kramer
in The New York Times wrote: "One way to describe what Mr. Scharf is up to in this
exhibition is to say that, for him, painting is more a verb than a noun. He has covered
long lengths of paper scrolls, all measuring 12 inches wide, and some as long as 50 feet,
with a pictorial imagery that is so stunning in color and both complex and mysterious in
its iconography."
Mr. Scharf's paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Museum
of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Boston Institute of
Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Atlanta High Museum, the Neuberger
Museum, the Newark Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Neurosciences Institute, La
Jolla, California, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum, Savannah,
Georgia, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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