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Earl Horter

Earl "Bill" Earle Horter (1881 - 1940) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California.  Earl Horter is known for Urban scene etchings and aquatints, illustration, painting.

Printmaker Earl Horter, born in 1881 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, was known for his realistic etchings and aquatints of urban scenes, though he was also an illustrator and painter. As a teenager, he engraved stock certificates. He was essentially self-taught, though he did take an etching class when he moved to New York City in 1903 to work for an advertising agency. Horter had a one-man show in 1916 in New York City at the Frederick Keppel and Company gallery. He was given the exhibition by Carl Zigrosser, later the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art. Horter was back in Philadelphia in 1917, where he would remain until his death in 1940. He worked there as art director for the N. W. Ayer advertising firm from 1917-1923.

Horter was a member of the Society of Illustrators. He exhibited at the Pan American Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco, California; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; and the Philadelphia Print Club's National Exhibition of P   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3046 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Earl Horter

   Publications  Book References:  48
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Earl Horter
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction Previews March 1999 Editors Yes
American Art Review Precisionism in America/1915-1941 February 1995 Stavitsky, Gail Yes
48 Book References for Earl Horter
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony 612 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Alterman, Jim Blue Chips 128 Yes
2001 Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro) Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2001 Peters, Lisa Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Klawans, Alan J. (compiler) Earl "Bill" Horter and His Gang at the Philadelphia Sketch Club 75 No
1997 Schwarz, Robert Devlin 150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
130 Yes
1994 Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1993 Pavese, Edith American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art 160 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1991 Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor) American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)
76 No
1991 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings for New Collectors 64 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)
230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Richard York Gallery An American Gallery (Volume IV)
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1988 Riehlman, Franklin; Glen C. Peck The American Spirit: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from 1817-1987 H V Allison Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
54 Yes
1987 Strickler, Susan (editor) American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection 232 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)
314 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Chwast, Seymour/S Heller The Art of New York 190 No
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
166 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1968 Kent, Norman 100 Watercolor Techniques 216 Yes
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1940 Ball, Charlotte (editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists 790 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1935 Morrow, B F The Art of Aquatint 140 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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