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10 Facts About Harry Shoulberg

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Harry Shoulberg was an American expressionist painter.

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Harry Shoulberg was known to be among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print medium, as well as oil.

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Harry Shoulberg was born October 25,1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Harry Shoulberg's father, Max Shoulberg, was the fourth of twenty children and the first to be born in America.

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Harry Shoulberg's mother was Tessie Derfler, a New Yorker of German descent.

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Harry Shoulberg grew up in New York, married Sylvia Hendler in 1931, and had one child, Ted.

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Harry Shoulberg died April 15,1995, in New York City.

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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.

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Harry Shoulberg's serigraphs have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress and the Audubon Society.

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Harry Shoulberg's 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, DC.