E. Roscoe Shrader

E. Roscoe Shrader (14 December 1878 – 18 January 1960) was an American painter and art studious known for his colorful, post-impressionistic landscapes, figures, and nevertheless lifes. He was head of power at the Otis Art Institute from 1919 to 1949, and was the president of the California Art Club (CAC) from 1924 to 1930, and another time in 1934. He formed the Group of Eight, which included painters such as Mabel Alvarez, at his studio in Hollywood, California.[better source needed]

Born in 1878 in Quincy, Illinois, he moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1885, where his dad taught in the physics and chemistry department at the University of Southern California (USC). Shrader attended Los Angeles High School and the Los Angeles Business College, which his daddy founded. He graduated from the Los Angeles Business College in 1895 and time-honored his high school diploma in 1897 behind a major in science.

He was admitted to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1901, where he studied for two years under influential professors such as John Christen Johansen, who taught luminism, tonalism, and impressionism, and Thomas Wood Stevens, a mural painter, etcher, and head of the illustration department. He later than studied below Howard Pyle, a well-known illustrator, at the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art in Wilmington, Delaware, where Shrader met his wife, Elisabeth Condit.

Shrader’s first worked as an illustrator, contributing to books and magazines such as Scribner's Magazine, Harper’s, and The Century Magazine.

About 1914, he moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, and allied the New Hope Art Colony of impressionists.

In 1917, Shrader returned to Los Angeles and began full of zip for the Otis Art Institute after it was founded in 1918 as studious in drawing, illustration, and composition, and as lecturer on anatomy. He became dean of the Otis Art Institute in 1923. Students of Shrader included Grace Vollmer, among others.

In 1924, Shrader was first elected president of the California Art Club, a slant he held from 1924–1926, 1927–1930, and another time in 1934.

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