Sherman Galleries

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ntique oil paintings and modern lithographs hang at random on the walls, a rare porcelain vase sits opposite a display case gleaming with a thousand gold chains. The Fine Arts Shop is a place people bring their out-of-town guests just for the experience. It is a place to visit, to browse, and, to purchase if one wishes, anything from a $1.00 English box to a $15,000.00 Diamond and Platinum bracelet -- or any of thousands of items priced somewhere in between.he Fine Arts Shop was founded in 1945 by David Sherman, primarily as an art and framing shop in downtown Newport News and is still owned today by his two daughters. As local interest in original art and antique frames increased, the Fine Arts Shop responded, and progressively, added to its stock antique furniture, porcelain, cut class, silver, etc. By the 1950s and early '60s hardly a home on the Peninsula was without one Fine Arts item.n 1965 David Sherman became a member of the Appraisers Association of America which qualified him to appraise, as well as purchase, larger local estates. The estates purchased in the 1970s began to include more and finer lots of jewelry. The shop was, in fact, the first in the area to offer fascinating, one-of-a-kind, pieces of quality jewelry at reasonable prices. By 1975 the Fine Arts Shop had moved to its present location near Hilton Village and jewelry, new and vintage, had become the focus of the business.

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