Author: CT State Library

Shellhase, George M. (1895-1988)George Shellhase was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1899. He attended the Industrial Art School and Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York City. He came to New York City in 1916. He was an illustrator-cartoonist and had his work published in the New York Evening Post the New York Herald Tribune. He enlist...

Sears (Adams), Elinor Lathrop (1902-1988) Elinor Lathrop Sears was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1902. She studied art as a student of Hale, Logan, Mora, and Calder and became known for her miniatures, pastels, and portraits. She was associated with the Lyme Art Association and exhibited there. Sears was also a member of the Hartford Art Society, the Connecticut Academy of ...

Schwartz, Rubin (?)Little is known about Rubin Schwartz except that he completed 13 works for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938-40. He was assigned to the project on December 15, 1936. Only one of his easel paintings was allocated, and that was to the Cedarcrest Sanatorium. The dates of Schwartz’s birth and death are unknown.�Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Allocation...

Schork, Joseph C. (1902-1965) Joseph Carl Schork was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1902. At the age of 15 he became an errand boy at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended the Winchester Trade School and became a machinist. He also attended classes at the New Haven Evening High School. Schork received three years of private instruc...

Schmitt, Carl (1889-1989)Carl Schmitt was born in Warren, Ohio on May 6, 1889. His father was a musician and music teacher, and both parents encouraged the young Schmitt’s talent in art. Zell Hart Deming, owner of the Warren Chronicle, recognized his talent in her salons for writers and artists, and when he was seventeen, she bankrolled his studies in New York. Schmitt first at...

Schlichting, Heinrich Carl (1885-1944) Heinrich Carl Schlichting was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 21, 1885. After graduating from Brown's Business School in Brooklyn, he followed his love for painting, studying in a New York art school. About 1908 the Schlichting family moved to Darien. During World War I he served overseas with the 56th Coast Artillery. He was promi...

Scarrozzo, Joseph (1916-?) Joseph Scarrozzo studied art under Sanford Low at the Art League of New Britain, Connecticut. Low and Walter Korder suggested that Scarrozzo join the WPA Federal Arts Project. He completed four watercolor works and one mural entitled, Early Life of Nathan Hale, which is installed at the Nathan Hale Junior High School in New Britain. Later he worked f...

Saling, Paul E. (1876-1936)Paul Saling was born in Germany in 1876. The year that he came to the United States and settled in Hartford is unknown. He studied art in Germany, in Hartford under Charles Noel Flagg and William Gedney Bunce, and with the Connecticut League of Art Students. From 1914-1923 the Hartford Courantcarried evidence that one Paul E. Saling was a decorator wi...

Raymond, Frank Jo (1907-1993)Frank Raymond was born in Pittson, Pennsylvania in 1907. At an early age he moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut where he attended the local public schools. He also lived in Stonington, Connecticut with an uncle who was the keeper of the lighthouse at Latimer Reef. In his lifetime he worked a number of odd jobs including sword fishing, working in a bras...

Rutkoski, Frank J. (1905-2000?) Frank Rutkoski began work for the WPA Federal Arts Project on November 20, 1935. Prior to that, he had worked on the Public Works of Art Project. He completed eight murals and 13 easel works for the WPA. One mural is about the Amistad captives and can be seen at Troup Junior High School in New Haven. Other works are at Bethlehem School, Newingto...