Hi!  I’d like to share with you a sampling of John Stermer portraits.   And, in particular, we will feature drawings and paintings of family members. Lucienne. This is an early painting my Dad, artist John Stermer, did of my Mom.  What I particularly like is the muted colors; it sets a mood of serenity. […]

Greetings!  I’d like to share with you one of John Stermer’s nautical themed paintings.  Titled Rockport House (Inv # S-18), it is a small painting done in oil and on linen.   Even though it is small, it has a presence.  Perhaps that is because of the thick impasto application of the paint.  Also, Rockport House has […]

Introducing A Favorite Still Life. Greetings!  I’d like to share with you a John Stermer still life painting.  Titled “Plant In A Clay Pot”, this is another favorite.   Just a pause here for full disclosure, I have many favorites; it comes with being one of the artist’s daughters. Incidentally, there are some compositional notes […]

Introducing the Painting. I’d like to share with you a John Stermer painting from the late 1970s or early 1980s.  The painting’s title is “Miner’s Hotel, Madrid NM” and it’s done in oil. Oddly enough, this painting is in my personal collection.  And, over the years, I had come to believe that this was a […]

Introducing a Favorite Subject I would like to share with you three versions of one of John Stermer’s favorite subjects: the Kneeling Nun Mountain of Grant County, NM. Background. To explain, the artist (Dad) and his family moved to Grant County, NM in December 1959.  He lived in this southwest corner of New Mexico for […]

Hi! This is daughter Peggy (Margaret Stermer-Cox) writing.   Recently, my youngest sister Dorothy sent me some images of artwork by my Dad, artist John Stermer.  And, the drawings and painting included goats.   So, on the John Stermer Fine Art Facebook page, I shared some of the goats.  They are so much fun to […]