16 Facts About Paul Rohland

Paul Herman Rohland was an American artist, printmaker, watercolorist, and muralist.

Paul Rohland exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913 in New York City.

Paul Rohland painted three post office murals for the Section of Painting and Sculpture.

Paul Rohland studied in evening art classes at the Virginia Mechanics Institute under the painter and illustrator Wm.

Paul Rohland took landscape painting with Birge Harrison at the Art Students League's summer school in the Woodstock, NY, art colony founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown.

Later that year, Paul Rohland showed his work at the MacDowell Club of New York and the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition.

The couple maintained a home and a large, impressive garden in Woodstock where they grew the flowers that Paul Rohland used in his floral oils and watercolors.

Paul Rohland contributed prints to Hervey White's publication, The Plowshare, as well as to Woodstock's satirical publication, Hue and Cry.

Paul Rohland exhibited regularly with the Woodstock Artists Association, Society of Independent Artists, Salons of America, the Carnegie Institute, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Paul Rohland had one-man shows, notably in 1939 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.

When Paul Rohland traveled for his work, Juliana Force, who would become the first director of the new Whitney Museum of American Art, sometimes handled his exhibitions and sales through the Whitney Studio Club and Whitney Gallery, where Paul Rohland began exhibiting in 1927.

Paul Rohland showed at the Whitney Museum's first Biennial in 1932.

Paul Rohland continued to participate in Whitney Museum exhibitions through 1942.

The Great Depression severely affected his art sales, but Paul Rohland managed to secure three commissions from the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts for post office murals.

Paul Rohland executed The Union of the Mountains, for Mount Union, PA, ; Dogwood and Azaleas, for Decatur, GA ; and Louisiana Bayou, for Ville Platte, LA.

From 1942 to 1945, Paul Rohland exhibited yearly in the annual exhibition of Painters and Sculptors of the Southwest; hence, he is often considered a "western" artist.