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Honoré Sharrer was an American artist of the ‘40s and later whose paintings portrayed the daily lives of ordinary working people. In a time of Abstract Expressionism, Sharrer stood by figurative art as a vehicle for social criticism. Her masterpiece is Tribute to the American Working People (1951), a polyptych that resembles a medieval or Renaissance altarpiece.