Gloria Scher, a resident of Aquinnah and New York city, received the president’s award given by National Arts Club for her painting shown at the 11th annual exhibiting members exhibition, located in the historic Tilden mansion on Gramercy Park.

The National Arts Club was founded in 1898 by Charles de Kay, a literary and art critic, as a gathering place for artists, patrons and audiences

Ms. Scher’s paintings were shown this spring at the Broome Street Gallery in Soho, In his review of the show, Peter Novartis, writing for the New York Society of Women Artists, said, “There are the deceptively simple acrylic paintings of Gloria Scher, whose reds and purple have a Rothko style but instead of using of using swathes of color as imposing forefronts, she casts the colors as seeming shadows to some home in our memory.”

Shown in many galleries and museums in the U.S. Ms. Scher’s work is in public and private collections in the U.S. and France. It can also be viewed at Saatchi online at the Saatchi Gallery. Her paintings can be seen at the Louisa Gould Gallery in Vineyard Haven from Sept. 2 to 16, with a reception on Sept. 4.