Howard Schleeter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1903. He was the son of a commercial artist, and briefly studied at the Albright Art School. After serving time in the US Army during WWI he found... Read full biography
Howard Schleeter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1903. He was the son of a commercial artist, and briefly studied at the Albright Art School. After serving time in the US Army during WWI he found his way to New Mexico in 1929. He would spend the rest of his life there living in Albuquerque from... Read full biography
Howard Schleeter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1903. He was the son of a commercial artist, and briefly studied at the Albright Art School. After serving time in the US Army during WWI he found his way to New Mexico in 1929. He would spend the rest of his life there living in Albuquerque from 1930 to 1970, with brief periods of living in Santa Fe (1958-1968) and Placitas (1970-1976). During the 1930s when most NM artists were focused on creating traditional landscape and genre paintings,... Read full biography
Howard Schleeter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1903. He was the son of a commercial artist, and briefly studied at the Albright Art School. After serving time in the US Army during WWI he found his way to New Mexico in 1929. He would spend the rest of his life there living in Albuquerque from 1930 to 1970, with brief periods of living in Santa Fe (1958-1968) and Placitas (1970-1976). During the 1930s when most NM artists were focused on creating traditional landscape and genre paintings, Schleeter developed his signature modern art style of painting using heavy impasto to highlight his brushstrokes and modernist techniques. This style of paint application was as dynamic as his artistic visions. His landscape paintings created with this... Read full biography
Howard Schleeter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1903. He was the son of a commercial artist, and briefly studied at the Albright Art School. After serving time in the US Army during WWI he found his way to New Mexico in 1929. He would spend the rest of his life there living in Albuquerque from 1930 to 1970, with brief periods of living in Santa Fe (1958-1968) and Placitas (1970-1976). During the 1930s when most NM artists were focused on creating traditional landscape and genre paintings, Schleeter developed his signature modern art style of painting using heavy impasto to highlight his brushstrokes and modernist techniques. This style of paint application was as dynamic as his artistic visions. His landscape paintings created with this technique have a uniqueness not found in most art of the time. His dynamic scenes of the NM environment with modernist compositions set him... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
Printmaking with Monotype
1960
Rasmusen, Henry
184 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index