I would like to talk to you about John Stermer’s education at The Art Students League of New York during the late 1940s and early 1950s.  This was a key time in his development as an artist. To explain, this is the second in a series of articles on John Stermer’s life and artistic development. […]

Formative Years, through 1946* This is part one of a series of articles about John Stermer’s life and development as an artist.  This article gives a brief summary of the early years, that is from childhood through to his Navy years in World War II. The narrative of this series of articles is based largely […]

Greetings!  I would like to talk to you about the painting “Tree Rock” and  John Stermer’s motto,  “The Subject Is An Excuse To Paint”. To explain, when asked about how he found his subject matter, John Stermer (Dad) liked to say that “the subject is an excuse to paint.  And, I find excuses everywhere: in […]

Greetings! I would like to share with you a detail portion of an early John Stermer oil painting of Watkins Glen, NY.   Watkins Glen is not too far from where John grew up in Elmira, NY and I think it was a favorite place for him.  Not surprising, then, that Dad took us (his […]

Greetings!  I would like to share with you a drawing of a house John Stermer did back in 1946.  It is a of drawing of a house across the street from his parent’s home in Elmira NY. The drawing is unusual in that it has some notes and corrections around the house.  I don’t know […]

We are happy to say that Dorothy, John Stermer’s daughter and estate manager, will be one of the presenters at the New Mexico History Conference this weekend, March 30th through April 1st.  Hosted by the Historical Society of New Mexico, the conference will be in Silver City, NM which, coincidentally, was where John Stermer and his […]