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Gail Sherman Corbett was a well-known sculptor, painter, and medalist who flourished as an artist in New York during the early decades of the 20th century. Gail Sherman was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1872, and attended the local high school and later the Anne Brown School in New York City. Sherman began her formal artistic training at the Art Students League in New York City, where she studied with the famous sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and the painters Henry Siddons Mowbray, a celebrated muralist, and George deForest Brush, a painter of colorful genre scenes.
Later, she traveled to Paris and enrolled in the �cole des Beaux-arts from 1898-99. During her sojourn in Paris, Sherman was exposed to the work of the Impressionists, from whom she incorporated a looser brushwork, lighter palette, and interest in contemporary urban scenes.
Sherman married in 1905, and thereafter focused primarily on monumental sculpture in bronze and memorial medals. She received many awards and acclaim for her sculpture, including both an honorable mention and a bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
The present work Avenue Parisienne was most likely painted during the artist's time in Paris. The contemporary subject matter, fluid brushwork, and light-infused palette reflect the influence of the Impressionists on the artist's early painting style.
Memberships:
National Sculpture Society, 1907
Architectural League of New York
National Association of Women Artists
American Numistic Society
Exhibitions:
Art Institute of Chicago, 1912, 1916
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Annual, 1902-06 (as Sherman), 1913
Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915 (medal)
National Association of Women Artists, 1935 (medal)
National Sculpture Society, 1923
References:
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Sound View Press
E. B�n�zit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Editions Gr�nd
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