biography of Harry SHOKLER (1896-1978)

Birth place: Cincinnati, OH

Death place: Hanover, NH

Addresses: NYC, Brooklyn, NY; Londonderry, VT

Profession: Painter, serigrapher, lecturer, writer, educator

Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.; PAFA, summer; New York School Fine & Applied Arts; Acad.Colarossi, Paris; H. Wessel; D. Garber; H. Giles.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1926; Paris Salon, 1928; PAFA Ann., 1930, 1936; NAD, 1943-46; LOC, 1944, 1945; SFMA, 1945; Northwest Printmakers, 1944-45; Southern Vermont Artists; Dayton Art Inst.; Chaffee Art Mus., 1969 (Award for Pigeon Cove); Albany Print Biennial (award for Tunisian Coffee House); Miller Art Center (award for West River in March); NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977; Grand Central Art Galleries, NYC, 1970s."

Member: Nat. Ser. Soc.; Am. Color Pr. Soc.; Artists Lg. Am; Southern Vermont Artists (art committee & trustee, 1971); Miller Art Center; Chaffee Art Mus.; Chester Art Guild; West River Artists.

Work: MMA; PMA; CI; Syracuse (NY) Mus.; Newark Mus.; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst.; Cincinnati Public Library; Princeton Print Club; LOC.

Comments: WPA artist. Preferred media: oils. Publications: author,Artists Manual for Silk Screen Printmaking," 1946. Teaching: teacher, BM School, Brooklyn; lecturer, serigraphy, Princeton Univ., Columbia Univ. , 1941-45; instructor of oil painting, Southern Vermont Artists.

Sources: WW73; WW47; New York City WPA Art, 78 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.