Reminiscences of Aaron Shikler : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Painter.

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education; art training, Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, 1948; army service; career as portrait artist; Kennedy portrait commissions, 1967; art scene of 1977, personal exihibits.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.
• Oral histories.
• Painting--Technique.
• Painting--Themes, motives.
• Portrait painters--Interviews.
• Portrait painting, American--20th century.
• Shikler, Aaron, 1922-2015.
• Swackhamer, Gretchen, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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