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Mervin Jules
American artist
Mervin Jules | |
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Mervin Jules, 1944 screen print by Harry Sternberg | |
| Born | 1912 (1912) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | July 29, 1994(1994-07-29) (aged 81–82) Provincetown, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | painter, printmaker |
| Movement | Social realism |
Mervin Jules (1912–1994) was an American artist known for his silk screen prints.
Biography
Jules was born in 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He contracted polio as a child which damaged his legs. He used canes and braces for the rest of his life. He attended Baltimore City College and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
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He then moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League of New York. His teachers included Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s Jules was a member of the Silk Screen Unit of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Fine Arts Project.
[2] In 1940, he married fellow artist Rita Albe