The art and philosophy of Harry Sherman

Within the vast reaches of the universe, space, in its entirety and everything in it — even your thoughts — are electromagnetic energy, as expressed in the spectrum. With these few words — characteristic of a man of few words, but of many thoughts and feelings — Denver artist Harry Sherman describes a painting that hangs on his living room wall. He stands before the large acrylic composition, a vivid geometric design ablaze with brilliant primary (red, blue, yellow) and secondary (purple, green, orange) colors, and points out the natural sequence of hues representing the full visible spectrum. “This is the masterpiece of all my masterpieces,” he says with understated humility. “This is the most important painting ever made,” he adds, “with no ifs, ands […]