William Sharp Portrait Prints
William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, Berlin and Munich. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war, he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror at the trial of Bruno R. Hauptmann for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. As a staff artist at Esquire, where he continued to produce political cartoons, Sharp also illustrated stories by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Mann. He was a longtime contributor to The New York Times magazine and also worked for LIFE magazine, Collier's magazine, Coronet and The New York Post. Sharp also did book illustrations for several leading publishers, with Dickens’s, The Old Curiosity Shop for Heritage Press being his first assignment. He illustrated several books for limited editions, including The Diary of Samuel Pepys in 10 volumes. Sharp published several portfolios of etchings and lithographs about the legal and medical professions. Sharp's precisionist work is represented in many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Queens Museum, the Library of Congress, the Carnegie Institute and the New York Public Library. William Sharp died in New York City on April 1, 1961.
Early 19th Century William Sharp Portrait Prints
Engraving
1810s Modern William Sharp Portrait Prints
Etching
Mid-20th Century American Modern William Sharp Portrait Prints
Handmade Paper, Etching
Early 2000s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Engraving, Etching
1950s American Modern William Sharp Portrait Prints
Etching, Drypoint
1940s American Realist William Sharp Portrait Prints
Offset
1980s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Modern William Sharp Portrait Prints
Etching
1930s American Modern William Sharp Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Etching
2010s Contemporary William Sharp Portrait Prints
Screen
1980s Impressionist William Sharp Portrait Prints
Lithograph
