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1916 - 1981 New Hope, Pennsylvania. Known for: Railroad view, portrait, village scene.
The following is from Jean Clink again, the remaining daughter of the artist. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris... Read full biography
The following is from Jean Clink again, the remaining daughter of the artist. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other... Read full biography
The following is from Jean Clink again, the remaining daughter of the artist. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other things, in Converse College. In 1939 she married Robert Halter, a musician with a travelling big band, which he quit soon after marrying. While he was gone for three years with the Signal Corps in the South... Read full biography
The following is from Jean Clink again, the remaining daughter of the artist. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other things, in Converse College. In 1939 she married Robert Halter, a musician with a travelling big band, which he quit soon after marrying. While he was gone for three years with the Signal Corps in the South Pacific, Jean took care of their two litttle daughters, their kennel of Pulis, and began to paint antique chairs, decorating them with fruits and flowers in the old style for Grace Lavery, an antique dealer in New Hope. When her husband returned,... Read full biography
The following is from Jean Clink again, the remaining daughter of the artist. Jean Harris Halter was born in 1916 and spent her youth between Thornburg, Pennsylvania where her father oversaw Harris plumbing, and Camden, South Carolina, where they also had a home. She studied art, among other things, in Converse College. In 1939 she married Robert Halter, a musician with a travelling big band, which he quit soon after marrying. While he was gone for three years with the Signal Corps in the South Pacific, Jean took care of their two litttle daughters, their kennel of Pulis, and began to paint antique chairs, decorating them with fruits and flowers in the old style for Grace Lavery, an antique dealer in New Hope. When her husband returned, they started collecting and selling antiques, and she used her artistic talents retouching antiques, modelling doll heads, embro... Read full biography
Jean Halter - Artist Info
About Jean Halter: Keywords
Keywords (17)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Railroad Scenes, Railway Art
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- •New Hope, Pennslvania/Lambertville New Jersey
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950