Howard Schleeter was born in 1903 and raised in Buffalo New York where he studied art briefly at the Albright Art School. He moved to New Mexico in 1929 and lived there until his death in 1976. He worked primarily in the modernist tradition although he did some realistic depictions of the West when he worked as a muralist for the Works Progress Administration.
Selected Exhibitions:
1936-38 Kansas Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1939 New Mexico State Fair (prize) Albuquerque, NM
1939 New Mexico Art League (prize)
1941-46 Cedar City, NM
1945 Philadelphia Artist Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1946 deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1951, 1955 Museum of New Mexico (purchase prize), Santa Fe, NM
1925 Vienna, Austria
1954 Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
1955 Karlsruhe Museum, Germany
1955 Solo Exhibition Stanford University, Berkeley, CA
1957 New Mexico Highlands University (purchase prize), NM
1958 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO