Aaron Abraham Shikler: A Life in Portraiture Early Life and Education Born March 18, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, to Eastern European Jewish immigrant parents. Graduated from The High School of Music & Art in 1940. Studied at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, earning both a B.A. and M.A. Also studied at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Served as a cartographer in Europe during World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Married Barbara Lurie (whom he met at Tyler) and had two children: Cathy Shikler van Ingen and Clifford Shikler. Artistic Development an…