Harry Shokler was a printmaker and taught at the Brooklyn Museum School. He was a member of the National Serigraph Society, the American Color Print Society and the Artists League of America. He was a WPA artist in the New York City graphic arts division under Anthony Velonis' Silk Screen Unit. He was one of the first American artists to develop techniques of screen printing and wrote the book Artists Manual for Silk Screen Print Making in 1946. His work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Library of Congress. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, the Library of Congress and many others.