BIOGRAPHY:
HAROLD R. SHULER

Harold Shuler was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1933 and grew up in California and Texas. He has also lived and worked in Chicago, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; and Clarksville, Missouri. He received the majority of his formal art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago under William Mosby and Irving Shapiro.

Mr. Shuler’s career as a fine artist paralleled, and now follows, a 30-year career with US Steel. There working in engineering and graphic design, he worked on a wide variety of projects. He prepared structural steel drawings from with the 50-foot-tall “Chicago Picasso Sculpture” was built; he executed graphics for the presentation that won a contract to build the Walt Disney World “Contemporary” and “Polynesian” Hotels in Florida; he designed and painted the 10’ x 96’ mural “Steel Challenge” between the USX Building and the main entrance to the subway terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; as well as executing many corporate portraits.

As a freelancer, Shuler worked for three years as assistant artist to Dale Messick on the “Brenda Starr” comic strip. He also provided illustrations, editorial cartoons, and portraits for many publications, major corporations and private collectors. Mr. Shuler was commissioned by the Channel 9/Discover Channel to do four paintings for their “How the West was Lost” television series, and was commissioned to work as a courtroom artist by Channel 9, German Televsion, NBC Nightline and News Week Magazine. Mr. Shuler has also taught figure drawing at the University of Northern Kentucky and the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. We are pleased to be showing his works again here at the Savageau Gallery.