Frederick Harer was an American

United States

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 painter

Painting

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, sculptor

Sculpture

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 and etcher

Etching

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, best known for his skill as a gilder

Gilding

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 and framemaker

Picture frame

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. He produced frames for many of the Pennsylvania Impressionist

Pennsylvania Impressionism

Pennsylvania Impressionism refers to an American Impressionist movement from the first half of the 20th century that was centered in and around Bucks County, Pennsylvania, particularly the area around the town of New Hope...

 painters, including Edward Redfield and Daniel Garber

Daniel Garber

Daniel Garber was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and...

. Today, having a Harer frame on a Pennsylvania Impressionist painting adds significantly to its value.

Harer was born in Blossburg

Blossburg, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. The son of a successful cabinetmaker, Harer had worked for his father as a youth and inherited his tools upon his father's death.

He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts

University of the Arts (Philadelphia)

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 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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 (1900–1903 and 1908–1910), where his teachers included Thomas Anschutz and William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...

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Harer also traveled extensively, and his work and design was heavily influenced by Spain

Spain

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 and the West Indies.

He exhibited at the National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

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 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was a teacher and mentor to Ben Badura, and inspired the work of framers Francis A. Coll and Cullen Yeats.

He died on April 27, 1949, in Uhlerstown, Pennsylvania

Uhlerstown, Pennsylvania

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