Hoyt L. Sherman

Hoyt Leon Sherman (* 1903 in La Fayette , Alabama , † 1981 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American artist, designer and professor of fine arts . His work earned him a high reputation and he had a major influence on the work of Roy Lichtenstein , who was a Sherman's student from 1942 to 1949.

Life

Sherman taught at Ohio State University from 1932 to 1974. As a professor in fine arts , he developed the Flash Room , also known as The Visual Training Laboratory , a darkened room about 21 meters long in which pictures briefly flashed on a screen ( tachistoscopy ). Students should then draw the afterimage on the retina. This method of reproducing a fleeting visual impression was later mentioned by Lichtenstein as being influential on his work. Sherman was also known for his work on optics in the visual arts and developed a theory similar to Hans Hofmann's "Push and Pull".

Sherman had other students, including EL Sauselen and Larry Shineman, who also taught the fine arts at Ohio State University, as well as Deborah Beetham-Ford, who taught the arts at Ohio State and Otterbein College, now Otterbein University , where she was interim director of the arts department. Other students were Earl Hassenpflug, later director of the Otterbein Art Department, and JoAnne Stichwey and Al Germanson, who also used Sherman's techniques as professors.

His research and methods of perceptual psychology were also used by the United States Navy and Army Air Corps during World War II as a means of teaching pilots and gunmen to quickly identify aircraft as friends or foes while his camouflage room taught them To identify targets for bombing or better hide your own US targets.

From the mid-1940s, he published his art pedagogical and art theoretical concepts in several writings; Contributions from him appeared u. a. in the Art Journal and the College Art Journal .

In 1963, he received the Ohio State University Alumni Award for outstanding teaching. A building in his name, the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center, was furnished by Roy Lichtenstein in the 1990s. Sherman's widow Rachel, née Rachel Emily Way (born January 23, 1907), painter and pianist, died on July 20, 2008.

His artistic work was published posthumously in 1996 under the title Vision to action. The art and innovation of Hoyt L. Sherman exhibited in the Hopkins Hall Gallery at Ohio State University, with a catalog booklet.

literature

• Elizabeth Clymer Okerbloom: Hoyt Sherman's Experimental Work in the Field of Visual Form. In: College Art Journal , Volume 3, 1944, No. 4, pp. 143-147. ( JSTOR 773203 ).
• Edward Warder Rannells: A Critique of Drawing by Seeing. In: College Art Journal , Volume 12, 1953, No. 2, pp. 140–147. ( JSTOR 773318 ).
• Michael Torlen: Hit with a brick: The teachings of Hoyt L. Sherman. In: Visual Inquiry , Volume 2, 2013, pp. 313–326.

Fonts

• Drawing By Seeing. A new development in the teaching of the visual arts through the training of perception. Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, New York 1947.
• The Visual Demonstration Center. ( A manual for operation with an emphasis on vision in the fine arts ; 1). Institute for Research in Vision at the Ohio State University, Columbus, 1951.
• Cézanne and Visual Form. ( A manual for operation with an emphasis on vision in the fine arts ; 2). Institute for Research in Vision at the Ohio State University, Columbus 1952. ( Online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hoyt L. Sherman in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sherman, Hoyt Leon (American artist, designer, and teacher, 1903-1981). In: Union List of Artist Names . Getty Research Institute, accessed April 6, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Michael Lobel: Image Duplicator. Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art . Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2002, ISBN 0-300-08762-4 , pp. 79-81 (English). Kent Minturn: Review . In: Archives of American Art Journal . Volume 44, 2004, p.
    47–51 (English, On the Lichtenstein-Sherman relationship).
3. ^ Graves Family website . Retrieved April 5, 2017.
4. ↑ Review: MB (Madison Bentley): Review: Drawing by Seeing; A New Development in the Teaching of the Visual Arts through the Training of Perception by Hoyt L. Sherman; Ross L. Mooney; Glenn A. Fry. In: The American Journal of Psychology , Volume 61, 1948, No. 4, p. 605 ( JSTOR 1418340 ), accessed April 6, 2017.
5. ↑ Review: Evelyn T. Riesman: Seeing With the Innocent Eye . In: ETC. A Review of General Semantics , Volume 9, 1952, No. 2, pp. 155-156. ( JSTOR 42581037 ), accessed April 6, 2017.
6. ↑ Review: Douglas MacAgy: Review: Drawing by Seeing by Hoyt L. Sherman. In: College Art Journal , Volume 7, 1948, No. 4, pp. 331-332. ( JSTOR 773279 ), accessed April 6, 2017.
7. ↑ Review: Donald L. Weismann: Review: Cézanne and Visual Form by Hoyt L. Sherman. In: College Art Journal , Volume 12, 1953, No. 3, pp. 296-299. ( JSTOR 773836 , accessed April 6, 2017.