Classical Drawing Intensive
August 23, 2024
Congratulations to our students who just completed a two-week workshop training in the atelier method. Students used the sight-size technique to make Bargue and cast drawings — an essential aspect to atelier training, a prerequisite to studying oil painting, and recommended to any artist wishing to learn or enhance knowledge of: composition, outline, shadow shapes, proportion, value, chiaroscuro, form, and perspective. If you'd like to learn more about private lessons or future workshops, please contact us.
The World of Light Unveiling
May 30, 2024
The unveiling of The World of Light was a wonderful success, and we wish to thank everyone who celebrated with us in person and those who celebrated with us in spirit! This painting is the culmination of two decades of exploration and growth as a contemporary artist working in the tradition of the Old Masters. It explores the relationship between human and spirit, and the dissolving of the veil between them.
"From the beginning, I knew I was going to be making large-scale, multi-figure, imaginative paintings in the spirit of the Old Masters. And having seen this within myself, I set an unwavering course on cultivating the ability to do so. After considerable effort, and an enormous amount of failure - and some successes - I have realized my first painting of this nature. This was my dream."
If you'd like to learn more about the painting, or would like to schedule a private viewing, please contact us.
Featured in Northshore Magazine
April 18, 2024
“Have you ever seen anything so blue?”
Jonathan Sherman holds out a mason jar filled with a beautiful powder of the richest, most shocking blue. It’s ground stone—lapis lazuli from Afghanistan—and he’s using it to mix his own oil paint. He scoops a bit of the powder onto a marble board and adds a few drops of amber-hued Italian linseed oil that he thickened in the south-facing summer sun for three weeks. It’s a meticulous task but seems fitting for Sherman, an artist whose works, and even his Marblehead studio, feel of another time.
Read the rest of the article here. Thank you to Alexandra Pecci and Joel Laino, for both wonderful words and photos.
Permanent Installation of Great Thinkers Series at Private Social Club in Naples, FL
November 1, 2023
Jonathan Sherman’s bronze sculpture series The Great Thinkers has been installed at the newly unveiled Maddox Club in Naples, Florida. The Maddox is a members-only social club. Rebecca Maddox, owner and founder, is a patron of the arts and felt it was important to include Jonathan Sherman’s sculptures of Leondardo da Vinci, Confucius and Hypatia of Alexandria to cultivate meaningful conversation among members. The club is designed to facilitate a considered community of wine enthusiasts in the Arts District of Naples, Florida.
Hypatia of Alexandria Casting Purchased by Maddox & Partners of Naples, FL
June 17, 2022
The first casting of The Cultivation of Wisdom: A Portrait of Hypatia of Alexandria has been purchased by Maddox & Partners of Naples, Florida, and will be installed at their new members-only social club, The Maddox, in Naples, Florida.
“Great Thinkers” on Exhibit at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead This Summer
June 1, 2022
Florence-trained, Marblehead artist Jonathan Sherman is exhibiting three bronze portraits from his series “Great Thinkers Throughout the World and Ages” at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion. The sculptures will be on view in the garden from June 16 – July 31, 2022. The Lee Mansion, one of the most important examples of Georgian architecture in the country, is a natural venue for Jonathan’s work, as they both stand for and embody the Renaissance ideals of beauty and harmony.
The Jeremiah Lee Mansion
161 Washington Street Marblehead, MA 01945
Garden open daily from sunrise to sunset.
June 16 - July 31, 2022
Jonathan Sherman Awarded 2022 MCC Grant for “Great Thinkers” Exhibit
January 11, 2022
Jonathan Sherman was awarded a grant from the Marblehead Cultural Council, a local agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support the forthcoming exhibition of his “Great Thinkers” sculpture series at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion garden this summer.
Confucius Casting Purchased by Maddox & Partners of Naples, FL
May 20, 2021
The first casting of The Cultivation of Virtue: A Portrait of Confucius has been purchased by Maddox & Partners of Naples, Florida, and will be installed at their new members-only social club, The Maddox, in Naples, Florida. The third figure in the series, Hypatia of Alexandria, is due for completion during the summer of 2022.
Handel and Haydn Society at The Studio of Jonathan Sherman
November 9, 2019
The concerts were a beautiful and overwhelming success. We wish to thank everyone who collaborated with us to make the evening a profound joy for all to experience, especially David Snead, President and CEO of H+H, the musicians, and Jean Woodward and Rose-Marie van Otterloo for their generous support.
Unveiling & Celebration for New Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
October 10, 2019
Thursday's unveiling was a wonderful success and we wish to thank everyone who celebrated with us in person and, for those who celebrated with us in spirit! We also wish to thank Bill Brotherton for his article in the Lynn Daily Item. If you'd like to learn more about the sculpture, or would like to schedule a private viewing, please contact us.
Six New Commissioned Sculptures Destined for the Arts District in Naples, Florida
April 19, 2019
The Studio of Jonathan Sherman has accepted a new commission from Maddox & Partners of Naples, Florida for six life-size bronze portrait busts titled Great Thinkers: Throughout the World and Ages.
The principal theme that will connect all of the selected figures is one of the dutiful cultivation of mind - the utilization of the faculties of thinking to transform one’s own being to levels of peace, self-possession, and the unlocking of universal knowledge. Through this process of being, one can therefore be of great use and purpose to the world in which one lives, serving and illuminating others. So far, the series’ second and third figures have been announced: Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher from 2,500 years ago whose thinking created the very pillars of Chinese culture that are still standing strong today; and Hypatia, the great mathematician, philosopher, teacher, and astronomer from ancient Alexandria c. 350-410AD. In her time she embodied feminine strength with an ease of manner earning her respect as an equal to men in her time.
Completion of 33rd Commission
September 12, 2019
Jonathan Sherman has just completed his 33rd commission: The Fruit of Prosperity was painted in oils on stretched canvas, and is 15.75 inches x 19.5 inches. The painting is a still life of pomegranates, mortar and pestle, a linen napkin and a glass of pomegranate juice. It was commissioned for a private collection in Portland, ME.