Man at the Fountain
Bequest of Lincoln Kirstein, 1996
Catalogue
- Year
- 1946
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 17 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. (44.8 × 32.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of 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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Record
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- Honoré Sharrer
- Year
- 1946
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 17 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. (44.8 × 32.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1946-144791
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified