Bernie Fuchs

Bernie Fuchs has achieved a degree of recognition rarely experienced by a living artist. For his accomplishments, the American Sport Art Museum and Archives selected him as its Sport Artist of the Year 1991.

Before his thirtieth birthday, Fuchs was named "Artist of the Year" by the Artists Guild in New York, and in 1975, he became the youngest artist ever selected to join such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer in the Society of Illustrators' prestigious Hall of Fame. In addition, Fuchs has received more than 100 awards, including the Hamilton King Award, five gold medals and five silver medals from the Society.

Golf has become a familiar subject for Fuchs. His first assignment for Sports Illustrated thirty years ago was of the Masters in Augusta. His painting of Tony Jackson hitting the key shot to win the U.S. Open at Hazeltine in 1970 made the magazine's cover, as did a dozen other sports subjects in the years following. Recently, he painted a series for the Players Championship of the famous last three holes of the TPC at Sawgrass, in Florida.

After graduating from the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, Fuchs met with immediate fame while painting at the New Center Studio in Detroit, Michigan. He has painted sensitive portraits of John F. Kennedy during his Presidency that now hang in the permanent collection in the Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His commissions also include the portraits of President Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, as well as other such notables as Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Arnold Palmer and Muhammad Ali.

Fuchs subjects are clearly not limited to sports. He has done works dealing with the New York Stock exchange, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, famous London pubs and the "Running of the Bulls" in Pamplona, Spain.

His paintings are realistically detailed, and his fascination with sunlight and the way it illuminates and transforms objects into a multitude of soft colors also gives his work a modern-day Impressionistic look.