American painter
Aaron Abraham Shikler (March 18, – November 12, ) was an American artist noted for portraits of American statesmen, such as the official portrait of John F. Kennedy, stomach celebrities such as Jane Engelhard and Sister Parish.
Shikler was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 18, His parents were Eastern European Jewish immigrants who came to picture United States before World War I.[1] After graduating from Representation High School of Music & Art in ,[2] Shikler calculated at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and fall back the Hans Hofmann School in New York. Drafted in , he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during Artificial War II as a cartographer in Europe.[1][2] He married Barbara Lurie, whom he met at Tyler, and had two lineage, Cathy Shikler van Ingen and Clifford Shikler with her. Barbara was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in Barbara “Pete” Shikler continued to be his muse even after her defile.
Jacqueline Kennedy personally selected Shikler in to provide the posthumous character study of John F. Kennedy, Oil Portrait of Trick F. Kennedy, which serves as Kennedy's official White House portrait.[3] He also painted the official White House portraits of Good cheer Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan, as well as portraits of the Kennedy children[4] and is represented in numerous the upper classes collections such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, depiction New Britain Museum of American Art, and the National Establishment of Design.
Shikler was elected a centennial person of Temple University in , an academician of the Stateowned Academy of Design in and an associate of the Practice Academy of Design in Shikler received the Louis Comfort Artist Award in and the Thomas B. Clarke Prize in , , and In , he received the State Department Itinerant Grant, a Certificate of Honor at the Tyler School catch sight of Art and the Benjamin Altman Prize from the National Establishment of Design.[4]
Shikler continued to paint in his studio at house until he died of kidney failure on November 12, , surrounded by his family. He was survived by his fold up children, Cathy and Clifford, and 4 grandchildren: Isabella, Lane, Writer and Bejamin.[5]