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Mervin Jules (b. 1912) Lithograph on Paper, 1947 Pencil signed by the artist 8.75 h x 12 w Sold |
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| Social realist artist Mervin Jules was a painter and printmaker born in Baltimore, MD. He received artistic training at Baltimore City College, the Maryland Institute College of Art and later at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Thomas Hart Benton. He began exhibiting his paintings in 1935 at The Baltimore Museum of Art in the All-Maryland show. In 1939, Jules' satirical painting To-Morrow Will be Beautiful was exhibited at the Carnegie International and the San Francisco World Fair. Jules' work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and many others including the collection of the University of North Carolina. | |||||
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