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Last Name Jules

Given Name Mervin M.

alt. Names M. M. J. ;

Marriage Rita Albers (1xxx-1974) in 1940 ;

Children 3: Frederick ; Gabriel J. Zepecki ; Hideko Morita ;

Year born 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland

Year died 1994

Place of death Provincetown, Massachusetts

Father's occupation haberdasher, owner of Jules Men's Store, Pennsylvania Ave. in Baltimore

Relatives brother Charles Jules

Education 1930 Baltimore City College, 1933 Maryland Institute of Fine & Applied Arts, 1934 Art Students League New York under Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for

Patronage instructor at Fieldston School, Museum of Modern Art, War Veterans Art Center ; 1946-69 prof. Smith College; City College, NY; WPA silk screen unit

Collaborators

Techniques botanical painting, multiple-coloured woodcut, lithography ; silk-print design and porcelain painting ;

Sample(s) http://www.aaa.si-edu/collections/images/detail/mervin-jules-2185 ;

Archival sources Hunt Institute Botanical Library Pittsburgh; Smithsonial American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2517 ;

Published sources Lawrence 1968: 124f.. ; Fred Rasmussen: obituary in Baltimore Sun 7 Aug. 1994 ;

other Prof. of Art Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; book illustrator. Polio criple since age 3. Forest Hills, NY; Huntington, Long Island. http://rogallery.com/jules/jules_bio.htm.

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