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Tony Scherman

Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) was active/lived in Ontario / Canada, England.  Tony Scherman is known for Encaustic painting-genre and figure, printmaking, teaching.

Tony Scherman is a painter, printmaker and educator.  He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  When he was five, he moved with his family to Paris, France, and at ten to London, England where he lived until returning, in 1976, to Toronto, which has been his home since then.

He is one of the most prominent painters in the encaustic* medium in Canada.  Examples of his works in other mediums like watercolor, etching* and lithography* are rare by comparison. His subjects are social commentary, historical figures and events, literary figures, popular culture, still life, animals, portraits, mythology, fantasy, philosophy and allegory*. 

He generally paints a series of works under one title, constructing a narrative that links all the paintings in that series. Chasing Napoleon (Napoleon, French Revolution, Nazis), Banquo's Funeral (Macbeth), About 1865 (US Civil War), The Rape of Callisto (Greek mythology), and The Blue Highw   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9086 characters.]  Artist bio

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