Bernie Fuchs

Art Brokerage: Bernie Fuchs American Artist: b.1932-2009. Often imitated but never equaled, Bernie Fuchs was one of America's foremost artists. He achieved an unusually high degree of recognition in his lifetime and his name has become legendary in the world or art. Built on a foundation of superb drawing, Fuchs' paintings are realistically detailed. His fascination with sunlight and the way it illuminates and transforms objects into a multitude of soft colors also gives his work a modern-day Impressionistic look. It is the unique blend of impeccable drawing combined with a spontaneous and varied use of color that has made Fuchs an important American artist – an original whose work affords the viewer a source of endless pleasure. For, like any truly great artist's work, each time you look you see something new, some marvelously detailed nuance you missed before. Before his 30th birthday, Fuchs (Westport, CT) was named "Artist of the Year" by the Artist Guild in New York, and in 1975. He became the youngest artist ever selected to join such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer in the Society of Illustrators' prestigious Hall of Fame. After graduating from the Washington University of Fine Arts in St. Louis, MO, Fuchs met with immediate fame while painting at the New Center Studio in Detroit, MI. Throughout his career he continued to receive the kind of widespread acclaim that is a rarity among living artists. Fuchs' sensitive portraits of John F. Kennedy, painted during his Presidency, now hang in the permanent collection of the Kennedy Library in Cambridge, MA. His commissions also included the portraits of President Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan, as well as other such notables as Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and Frank Sinatra. A man of varied and far-reaching interests, Fuchs' work graced the pages of major magazines from Sports Illustrated to The New Yorker. He explored subjects ranging from the New York Stock Exchange to the Masters Golf Championship. He captured such diverse environments, as the New Orleans jazz world, the race courses of Longchamps and Belmont, London pubs and running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Honored with one-man shows in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and New Orleans, Fuchs' work also appeared in nearly thirty group exhibitions all across the United States and as far away as England and Russia. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.