Harold Sleichter Etter, Anderson Circle, St. Augustine. Oil on board, 15 ¾ by 19 ¾ inches.
Harold Etter spent seventeen years in St. Augustine as a popular artist and art teacher working with the St. Augustine Arts Club (later the St. Augustine Art Association). From 1930 to 1934 Etter majored in history at Shippensburg Teachers College where he was art editor of the school newspaper. In 1937 he traveled and painted in Mexico, and the following year, with muralist George Gray, visited art schools on the coast of New England, painting and studying trends in modern art. Etter spent time at Goose Rocks Beach, the summer studio of watercolorist, Eliot O’Hara. With the onset of World War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Corp and was stationed at Hendriks Field, Sebring, Florida. After the war Etter moved to St. Augustine and opened The Brush and Palette Shop on Aviles Street. Etter exhibited with the Arts Club and won many awards. He left St. Augustine in 1958.
Born: August 12, 1911, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.
Died: September 1, 1972, Shippenburg, Pennsylvania.
Education: Pennsylvania State Teacher’s College, in Shippensburg; Indiana State Teacher’s College, graduate work in art; In Ogunquit, Maine with Charles Woodbury, George K. Ross; with muralist George Gray.
Membership: St. Augustine Arts Club; Florida Federation of Art; Artists Guild of St. Augustine.
Exhibits: St. Augustine Arts Club, March 1946, Brahman Cattle; SAAC, February 1947, Round-Up; SAAC, January 1948, Porpoises-Marineland; SAAA, Exchange Bank of St. Augustine, February 1956, Brahman Cattle.
Directory: Listed in St. Augustine City Directory, 1953-54,55, as an artist with studio at 11 B Avile
