Harry Shokler

Harry Shokler (1896–1978) was a 20th-century American performer known for his oil paintings and screen prints. Using a realist edit that produced what one critic called an "exactness of rendition", he made lustrous landscapes, cityscapes, and marine scenes as capably as some notable portraits. He helped explorer silkscreen printmaking in the 1930s and wrote an influential guide explaining and demonstrating the method. He gave few solo or small group exhibitions in billboard galleries and showed his take action mainly from his own studio and in non-profit venues.

While critics praised him for expert depiction of his subjects, they did not balance him past stylistic individuality or facility in reshaping natural subjects to achieve emotional expression. Early in his career critics called his work "simple, direct, and sincere." Of his mature function others used terms like "quaint", "convincing", "capable", "truthfully realistic", and "honest". In 1939, Howard Devree of the New York Times wrote: "Shokler's exploit is quiet and unostentatious, possesses a real feeling, and combines a rather time-honored approach with objector vigor and spirit."