[2] Beatrix Sherman's first documented silhouettes were shown at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, and Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists held by the Art Institute of Chicago from May 7 to June 7, 1914.

Sherman attended her first major exhibition at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) held in San Francisco in 1915.

Attending six World Fairs, in 25 years, she attempted to expand the traditional boundaries of the silhouette artist, doing more than simply cutting a quick and inexpensive portrait of the sitter.

Her efforts to adapt her profession to changing times allowed her both greater economic and artistic freedom.

After relocating to West Palm Beach in 1957,[9] she continued to attend social and charitable events with the goal of cutting silhouettes.

The January 1, 1961 Palm Beach-Post Times article wrote 'She was admitted to his press conference Saturday morning to try her art from the sidelines while Kennedy spoke.

It is of interest that in the same article Sherman discusses her plans to publish a book to be titled Shadows of the Great featuring silhouettes from her collection of portraits of over 10,000 people.

One of her last exhibits, at the sixth anniversary of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum,[11] displayed a number of her silhouettes, including President Kennedy's and nine other presidential portraits Sherman had cut, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt, at the Hero Land Bazaar, held in New York City in 1917.