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William Scharf studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation, and at the Académie de la Grande
Chaumière in Paris.
His work has been exhibited in many museums and theme exhibitions, including those at the Guggenheim Museum in 1982, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970 and 1974. His paintings have been shown in the European Traveling Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art, the American Federation of Art Museums’ Director’s Choice, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annuals.
Mr. Scharf has been the subject of numerous enthusiastic reviews. Hilton Kramer in The New York Times wrote, “One way to describe what Mr. Scharf is up to in this exhibition is to say that, for him, painting is more a verb than a noun. He has covered long lengths of paper scrolls, all measuring 12 inches wide, and some as long as 50 feet, with a pictorial imagery that is so stunning in color and both complex and mysterious in its iconography.”
Mr. Scharf’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Neuberger Museum; the Newark Museum; the Phillips Collection; the Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA; the Museum of Modern Art; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; and the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington, DC.
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