William Howard Shuster

William Howard Shuster Jr. (1893–1969) was an American painter, sculptor and teacher.

He was born November 26, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the second of three children. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I in France, where he developed tuberculosis after innate gassed. He moved to New Mexico in 1920 to attach his health, and became associates with the small but growing arts community.

In 1921 he became a members of Los Cinco Pintores ("the five painters"), and showed throughout Santa Fe and the dismount of the country as a group. In 1924 Shuster built and burned the first ever Zozobra, a giant puppet now burned all year in effigy, and symbolizing the gloom of the passing year. In adjunct to painting, Shuster established a disability allowance and made money behave ironwork. In 1952, he created El Toro, a tale for the Santa Fe Rodeo.

His artwork is in the steadfast collections of the Stark Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Newark Museum, and New Mexico Museum of Art.