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 Hartley Shearer
February 11, 2002
Hartley Shearer, 57, of 202 Pine Cobble Road, part-time lecturer in art at Williams College, died yesterday at home after a long illness.
Born in New York City on Oct. 30, 1944, son of F. Hartley and Letitia Roberts Shearer, he attended Middlebury (Vt.) College and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from New York University in 1968. He pursued a master's degree in social work at State University of New York until having a stroke three years ago.
He taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York before beginning at Williams in 1991 and was highly regarded as a critic and interpreter.
He was one of the first to combine theory and practice to integrate video, film and multimedia, and developed new approaches to the visual arts in a course he taught at Williams with his wife, the former Linda Balding, director of the Williams College Museum of Art. His work has been shown at the School of Visual Arts' gallery and at Artists Space in New York, and at the Williams College Museum of Art. It was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sloan Foundation.
He was committed to working with troubled boys and used video production to engage residents of the Berkshire Farm Center in Canaan, N.Y. While in New York, he did volunteer work with at-risk adolescents.
He coached ice hockey at Mount Greylock Regional High School and participated in mountain biking year-round.
He leaves his wife, the former Linda Balding, whom he married in New York City in 1966, and a son, Ivor Shearer, at college.
A memorial gathering will take place Saturday, Feb. 16, at a time and place to be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations in Mr. Shearer's name may be made to the Berkshire Farm Center in Canaan, N.Y., in care of FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams, MA 01247.
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