Harry Shokler was an artist active in the New York and Philadelphia art scenes as well as Vermont in his later years. He is known as an influential pioneer of screenprinting.

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Harry Shokler was born in 1896 in Cincinnati, Ohio. During World War I he designed naval camouflage. After the war, Shokler attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He went on to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He also spent his summer months in Provincetown's art colony, Academie Colarossi in Paris, and the Art Students League in New York. Shokler worked on various projects for the Public Works Art Project (PWPA).

 

Shokler began summering in South Londonderry in 1934. Shokler and his wife took up permanent residency in South Lodonderry in the late 1940s. He became active in the local fine arts community and the town's civic affairs. A painter by training, Shokler also became an influential innovator in screenprinting.

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Shokler's works are included in many collections including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philidelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and the Whitney.