James Kerr was born in Buffalo, New York. Kerr’s mother quickly recognized that they had a prodigy on their hands. By age 6 he was apprenticed to the city’s most prominent portrait artist, the late Lazlo Szabo. Kerr was also influenced by Carl Illig, a prominent landscape painter.
Kerr’s approach to oil painting is direct. He has distilled his subject and palette into an exquisitely vibrating field of strokes, with a harmonious balance of color, tone, and hue. Responding to the vibrant colors of nature, Kerr has developed a high key palette. With apparent casual brush strokes, Kerr materializes his abstracted subjects with incredible skill.
Kerr’s paintings have sold for up to $11,000 at auction.
Source/ Submitted by: Gallery On Greene
