This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born
in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Herman Cherry was a painter, muralist,
teacher, and sculptor of mobiles and constructions. He began his career
in Philadelphia; lived in California from 1924 to 1945; and Woodstock, New
York from 1944 to 1950 with an interval in Paris. Then he returned to
the New York area for the remainder of his life.
In Los
Angeles, he studied at the Otis Art Institute and under Stanton
MacDonald-Wright, and Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students
League. He also gave art
lessons in Hollywood.
Travels included Mexico, where he
studied murals; France and Italy to gather materials on contemporary
painters and sculptors for future lectures; and travels in Brazil,
Peru, Greece and Spain. In 1947 to 1947, he was also the Chairman of
the First and Second National Art Conference of Woodstock, New York.
Cherry's
work can be found in numerous museums and corporate and private
collections including Deloitte, Haskins & Sells in the World Trade
Center in New York; Frieda Lawrence in Taos, New Mexico; Western
Electric in Lisle, Illinois; Willem de Kooning, East Hampton, New York;
General Electric Collection in Fairfield, Connecticut; and IBM in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Herman Cherry Partial List of Solo Exhibitions
University of Mississippi, Jackson MSS 1958
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland CA 1961
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena CA 1961
University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 1967
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ILL 1968
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 1969
Kingsborough Community College, NYC 1974
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ILL 1983
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC 1985
Guggenheim Gallery, Miami FL 1987
Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie IN 1989-90
Staller Center for the Arts, Stonybrook NY 1989
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following is submitted by Robert S. April, MD, a friend of the artist:
Herman
Cherry lived in Woodstock, New York during the summers of 1960-65,
where he rented a cottage in Byrdcliffe Colony and taught selected
students in "the Barn". He lived in this colony of artists that
included members of the Art Students League, which had a summer school
in Woodstock, and had many friends, including Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle.
In
1976, he was invited to be a visiting teacher in Germany, and there met
Regina Kramer, a photographer, whom he married and brought back to New
York. In 1970, he bought a house and land in East Hampton, New
York and there had a studio where he painted actively until his death
in 1992.
A remarkable quality was his persistent optimism and
devotion to painting and art. He worked endlessly during his last
years, maintaining all his faculties in the face of a chronic,
debilitating illness. His impish idealism and innocence was always
attractive to those who met him for the first time as well as to those
who knew and loved him for years. He was truly a most unforgettable
character and a man of remarkable personal integrity.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 10, 1909, Herman Cherry, at
age 15 moved to Los Angeles where he studied at the Otis Art Institute
and the Art Students League under Stanton MacDonald-Wright.
In 1931 he established an art gallery in the Stanley Rose Bookstore
where he gave Reuben Kadish and Fletcher Martin their first
shows. He was an assistant to Gordon Grant, MacDonald-Wright, and
Lorser Feitelson on federal art projects during the Depression.
Cherry moved to Woodstock, NY in 1945 and lived there until his demise on April 10, 1992.
Exh: Rose Gallery (LA), 1931, 1934, 1939, 1942; Painters &
Sculptors of LA, 1935; Borden Gallery (LA), 1939; All-Calif. Show,
1939; SFAA, 1939; American Artists Congress, 1940 (prize); Palos Verdes
AA, 1940 (prize); County Fair (LA), 1941 (prize); Otis Art Inst.
Alumni, 1941; LACMA, 1943; Oakland Art Gallery, 1943 (prize); Oakland
and Pasadena Museums, 1961 (solos); many in NYC.
Collections:
Santa Monica Library; Chaffey College (Ontario, CA); UC Berkeley; Brooklyn Museum. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Interview with the artist or his/her family; Who's Who in American Art 1953-62; SF Chronicle, 4-14-1992 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
Biography from David Findlay Jr. Fine Art:
|  Selected Public Collections
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of Iowa Museum, Iowa City, IA
University of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale IL
Worcester Museum, Worcester, MA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DW
The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Woodstock Art Association, Woodstock, NY
Georgia University Museum, Athens, GA
Montana Historical Society, Helina, MT
Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, IN
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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