aaron abraham shikler
Aaron Abraham Shikler: A Life in Portraiture Early Life and Education Born March 18, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, to Eastern European Jewish immigrant parents. Graduated from The High School of Music & Art in 1940. Studied at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, earning both a B.A. and M.A. Also studied at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Served as a cartographer in Europe during World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Married Barbara Lurie (whom he met at Tyler) and had two children: Cathy Shikler van Ingen and Clifford Shikler. Artistic Development an…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of aaron abraham shikler's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
