Harry Shoulberg was an American expressionist painter and serigrapher.
He was known to be among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print (serigraph) medium, as well as oil.
From the Long Island based Newsday in review/II August 15, 1973:
"(Harry Shoulberg) canvases in the show at the Harbor Gallery in Cold Spring Harbor give us a rather interesting view of the kind of boldly painted romantic expressionism that dominated the period arround World War II." - Malcom Preston.
"Shoulberg is intoxicated with color rather then form.
His is a lyrical interpretation of reality.
In his still lifes it is not the form of the flowers that matter but the vitality of the painting through the use of color.
Where he uses fruit in his stilllife the fruit is so ripe and bright they emerge from the table as separate entities rather then a part of a whole.
His canvas fairly screams at you with its freshly squeezed colors."
-Jeanne Paris Long Island Sunday Press, July 25, 1976.
Harry Shoulberg, Dispair, 1949.
Oil on Board, 17 x 12 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Portrait Dorie, 1976. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Still Life, 1933.
Oil on board, 17 x 12.5 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Woman with Mirror, 1940. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Harry Shoulberg American Expressionist Painter
Harry Shoulberg, Portrait of Joseph Stella, 1945.
Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Bouquet, 1980s. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Night on the Water, 1969. Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Politician, 1966.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Harry Shoulberg, Portrait of a Lady #3, 1933. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
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Harry shoulberg, Landscape, 1970.
Oil on artist board, 16 x 20 inches
Harry Shoulberg, New York Night, 1976. Acrylic on canvas, 28 x 36 inches.
ASCA 58th Annual Exhibition Grumbacher Company Award
"My feeling is the most important thing.
I'll distort reality in order to get toward a greater reality.
By a greater reality I mean to the essence of things.
The essence that I strive for."
-Harry Shoulberg, Staten Island Sunday Advance, October 21, 1973.
Harry Shoulberg, Winter Village Scene, 1945.
Oil on canvas, 20 x24 inches