Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he... Read full biography
Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class... Read full biography
Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by... Read full biography
Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by Carl Zigrosser, later the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art. Horter was back in Philadelphia in 1917, where he would remain until his death in 1940. He worked there as art director for the N. W. Ayer advertising firm from... Read full biography
Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by Carl Zigrosser, later the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art. Horter was back in Philadelphia in 1917, where he would remain until his death in 1940. He worked there as art director for the N. W. Ayer advertising firm from 1917-1923. Horter was a member of the Society of Illustrators. He exhibited at the Pan American Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco, California... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Blue Chips
2004
Alterman, Jim
128 pages (color)
Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro)
0 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Earl "Bill" Horter and His Gang at the Philadelphia Sketch Club
1999
Klawans, Alan J. (compiler)
75 pages
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all
160 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor)
76 pages
American Paintings for New Collectors
1991
Schwarz-Philadelphia
64 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation
1990
Lang, Gladys & Kurt
437 pages
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
An American Gallery (Volume IV) (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Richard York Gallery
56 pages (color)
The American Spirit: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from 1817-1987 H V Allison Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Riehlman, Franklin; Glen C. Peck
54 pages (color)
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History
1983
Davidson, Marshall
256 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
Buildings Architecture in American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
96 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)