Education & Training - John Sherrill Houser
The aritst received his early training from his father, Ivan Houser, sculptor and ceramist, who was First Assistant to Gutzon Borglum during the early years of the carving of the presidential heads at Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. He grew-up on the family ranch in Pendleton, Oregon and in Portland Oregon.
Lewis and Clark College, Tuition Scholarship, BA in Art and Natural Sciences, Portland Oregon, 1958.
University of California, Scholarship, Graduate Studies in Art (1960), Los Angeles.
Advanced Studies: Independent study in Europe (1961). A year later, John was recipient of Elizabeth T. Greenshield Fellowship – Two years of Independent study in Europe, which included Spain, Italy, and Denmark. Associated with Pietro Annigoni, artist in Rome. During this period (1961-64) John S. Houser had studios in Altea, Spain and in Copenhagen, Denmark. Studio of Chen Shu Soo, painter, Rome, Italy, 1962. Studio of Dr. Avard T. Fairbanks, sculptor, Pietra Santa, Italy, 1961. John S. Houser was first assistant to Dr. Fairbanks in the enlarging of the full-size equestrian monument to the Pony Express Rider for Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada. Houser studied art in the studio of R.H. Ives Gammell, painter, Boston, 1973-74. He also had independent study in anatomy at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge (1974) and The University of California Medical School (San Francisco, 1967).
Elizabeth T. Greenshield Fellowship Award, Montreal, Canada, for two years independent study in Europe, 1961.
University of California, Tuition Art Scholarship – graduate studies (1959).
Lewis and Clark College, Tuition Scholarship, 1954-58, Portland, Oregon.