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Harry Shoulberg
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Harry Shoulberg (1903 – 1995) was an American expressionist painter.
He was known to be among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print (serigraph) medium, as well as oil.
Harry Shoulberg was born October 25, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Max Shoulberg, was the fourth of twenty children and the first to be born in America. His mother was Tessie Derfler, a New Yorker of German descent. Harry Shoulberg grew up in New York, married Sylvia Hendler in 1931, and had one child, Ted. Harry Shoulberg died April 15, 1995, in New York City.
Harry Shoulberg attended City College of New York where he studied biochemical engineering for three years before switching to fine arts in his last year. He continued his art education at the John Reed School, 1934–1935; the American Artists School, 1935–1937; and then privately at the studios of artists Sol Wilson (1894–1974) and Carl Holty.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harry Shoulberg in 1944 became a member of the National Serigraph Society. His serigraphs have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress and the Audubon Society. His serigraphs have won prizes from the National Serigraph Society and the American Color Print Society and are in the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Carnegie Institute, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Harry Shoulberg participated in the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) (1936–1942). He exhibited;
1936: in the Temporary Galleries of the Municipal Art Committee, City of New York;
1938: Teachers' Exhibition, New York City;
1940: New York World's Fair, United American Artists;
1941: Corcoran "Biennial," The American Federation of Arts circ.; The New York Council for Art week, Inc.
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