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 […]
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Greetings! I would like to share with you some insight on what I learned about becoming an artist from my dad, John Stermer. Yes, You Need An Education. Years ago, when I was young, I wanted to be an artist like my Dad, John H. Stermer. From my point of view, it seemed like the
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Greetings! I would like to share with you a portrait John Stermer painted in the early 1970s. I remember my father painting this portrait of Mr. Louis Brandtner when I was a teenager. What struck me was all the brown colors in the painting. Also, this was the first time that I remembered
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Greetings! Today’s post features two cats. What makes them special? Well, from time to time, I come across a John Stermer painting that I don’t remember seeing before. This is not so surprising as often Dad would sell painting directly from his studio. Sometimes, the paintings were still wet. And, like many artists, John Stermer
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