Earl Stroh

Earl Stroh (1924-2005) was an American artist who was affiliated with the Taos Moderns group of painters.

Education He received his education at the Art Institute of Buffalo, and went on to train at the Art Students League, New York,

Career

In the 1940s, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, awarded him a grant to produce his work, and Helene Wurlitzer became his patron. In 1947, he moved to Taos, New Mexico where he continued to live an work throughout the rest of his career.

In the 1970s Stroh was invited to be an artist in residence at the Tamarind Institute to develop a series of lithographs; these works were later shown at the Harwood Museum in Taos. the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright Knox Gallery), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among other venues.

An archive of Stroh's papers from 1960 to 1983 are held in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.