E. Roscoe Shrader (14 December 1878 – 18 January 1960) was an American painter and art instructor known for his colorful, post-impressionistic landscapes, figures, and still lifes. He was head of faculty at the

Otis Art Institute Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarte ...

from 1919 to 1949, and was the president of the

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(CAC) from 1924 to 1930, and again in 1934. He formed the Group of Eight, which included painters such as

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, at his studio in Hollywood, California.

Early life and education

Born in 1878 in Quincy, Illinois, he moved to

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, in 1885, where his father taught in the physics and chemistry department at the

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(USC). Shrader attended

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and the Los Angeles Business College, which his father founded. He graduated from the Los Angeles Business College in 1895 and received his high school diploma in 1897 with a major in science. He was admitted to the

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(SAIC) in 1901, where he studied for two years under influential professors such as

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, who taught luminism,

tonalism Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often domina ...

, and

impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

, and Thomas Wood Stevens, a mural painter, etcher, and head of the illustration department. He subsequently studied under

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, a well-known illustrator, at the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art in Wilmington, Delaware, where Shrader met his wife, Elisabeth Condit.

Career

Shrader’s first worked as an illustrator, contributing to books and magazines such as ''

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'', '' Harper’s'', and ''

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''. About 1914, he moved to

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, and joined the New Hope Art Colony of impressionists. In 1917, Shrader returned to Los Angeles and began working for the Otis Art Institute after it was founded in 1918 as instructor in drawing, illustration, and composition, and as lecturer on anatomy. He became dean of the Otis Art Institute in 1923. Students of Shrader included

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, among others. In 1924, Shrader was first elected president of the California Art Club, a position he held from 1924–1926, 1927–1930, and again in 1934.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shrader, E. Roscoe Painters from Los Angeles 1878 births 1960 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni People from La Cañada Flintridge, California 20th-century American male artists