Greetings! We are excited to share good news with you!  Announcing “Northwest Meets Southwest”,  an exhibition of two New Mexico artists’ works, John Stermer and Laura McIndoo, at The Gallery ABQ in the Salon, this coming July 2025. Our intention with this article is to announce the show and introduce artist Laura McIndoo. Then, we […]

Greetings! How about something a little different and fun?  When I saw these posters from J.R. Absher’s gallery shows, I thought they were wonderful and wanted to share them with you.   Naturally, seeing a poster for a John Stermer show definitely caught my attention! So, it is my pleasure to do a special short […]

We (John Stermer Estate/ Stermer Art LLC) would like to congratulate Ms. Nayeli Mancilla for being the academic year 2024-2025 Western New Mexico University (WNMU) John Stermer Art Scholarship winner!  Artist’s Statement. As a way to introduce Nayeli and her work, we would like to share with you Ms. Mancilla’s artist’s statement: “My journey into […]

Road to Bayard. After spending almost nine years in Europe, it was time to come home to the United States. And so, John, Lucy, and their five children arrived in Silver City, NM, just before Christmas in 1959.  Their first accommodations were rooms at the downtown Murray Hotel.  Almost immediately Lucy and John fell in […]

Introduction. I would like to continue talking about  John Stermer’s history.  In this article, we will discus John’s time in Europe, and, more specifically, France and Spain.  He and his new wife, Lucy, would live there from 1952 through 1959.  John and Lucy would leave Europe with five children, an expanded portfolio, and experiences for […]

In recognition of “World Watercolor Month”, I thought I would share three of John Stermer watercolors. Early Days. I am not sure when John Stermer started working with watercolor.  But, it is possible he was taught or mentored by Lars Hoftrup, Elmira NY, during his teens and early 20s. This could have been the late […]