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Mervin Jules

Mervin M. Jules (1912 - 1994) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland.  Mervin Jules is known for Social-realist genre-satire and figure painting, printmaking.

A painter, illustrator, print maker, and educator, Mervin Jules is known for painting and illustration that focuses on social commentary and that often employs satire.  He "typically uses dramatic and evocative lighting where sinewy figures emerge from darkened backgrounds, much like the paintings of Honore Daumier." (ArtSource)

He was very active as a print maker, having been a designer of silk prints and china painter as a young man growing up in Baltimore.  During the Depression of the 1930s, he was a member of the Silk Screen Unit of the Fine Arts Project of the WPA.

Jules studied art at Baltimore City College, and on scholarship at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts where he graduated in 1934.  In 1937, he enrolled at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton.  He had his first one-man exhibition in November, 1937 in New York City, and in this show had small tempera panels, and a series of Pennsylvania coal-country theme gouach   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4242 characters.]  Artist bio

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