Aaron Abraham Shikler

สไตล์: New Realism;

สถานที่: Brooklyn

เกิด: 1922

ความตาย: 2015

ชีวประวัติ:

Aaron Abraham Shikler (March 18, 1922 – November 12, 2015) was an American artist noted for portraits of American statesmen, such as the official portrait of John F. Kennedy, and celebrities such as Jane Engelhard and Sister Parish. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a cartographer in Europe. He married Barbara Lurie, whom he met at Tyler, and had two children, Cathy Shikler van Ingen and Clifford Shikler with her. Barbara was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in 1998. Barbara ‘Pete’ Shikler continued to be his muse even after her death. He painted the official White House portraits of First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan, as well as portraits of the Kennedy children and is represented in numerous public collections such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the National Academy of Design.