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Shepler, Dwight Clark (American)
1905 - 1974
Description: "Marguerite Kairan," pencil, signed/dated
1933 l/r, 16" x 12" unframed.
Condition: Very good.
Biography: A painter, educator, graphic artist and
illustrator, Dwight Shepler was
a Navy combat
artist during World War II from
1942 to 1946
and was awarded a Bronze Star
for his achievements.
He served on a destroyer in the
Pacific and
recorded action there as well
as the D-Day
invasion in France, and from
his observations,
painted more than 300 combat
scenes. Many
of his war illustrations appeared
in American
publications including "American
Heritage"
and "Life" magazine.
After the war, he became a pioneering
watercolorist
and did many landscape scenes
including the
ski country in New Hampshire
where he was
a member of the Concord Art Association.
He also completed numerous portraits,
did
habitat backgrounds for the Boston
Museum
of Science and mural decorations
for the
US Naval Academy , Williams College
and the
Schubverein Ski Club in Glen,
New Hampshire.
Shepler was born in Everett,
Massachusetts
and studied at the Boston Museum
School of
Fine Art from 1928 to 1929 and
at Williams
College, where he earned a BA
degree in 1928.
He was active in Boston and in
1969, served
as President of the Guild of
Boston Artists.
Sources:
www.albanyinstitute.org/exhibits/ww11.combat.htm
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who
in American
Art"
In addition to the dramatic battle
scenes
Shepler captured on paper and
canvas, he
was also very skilled at capturing
faces.
He coaxed a wide variety of people
to sit
for his pencil - from great commanders,
such
as Marine Corps Major General
A.A. Vandergrift
and Admiral William F. Halsey,
Jr., at Guadalcanal,
to junior officers and enlisted
men, to local
civilians and Japanese prisoners
of war.
The Navy Art Collection contains
225 original
works by Shepler. About 150 of
these are
watercolors. The rest are works
in oil, charcoal,
pastel or pencil.
Source: The Biography from The Navy Museum-US Navy
Art Collection
NOTE: This drawing was catalogued by the auctioneer
with the name of the sitter. There is evidence
that a label may have been affixed to the
back, so it's presumed this is the source
of the sitter's name.
$ 125.00
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