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- Harold Arthur Roney was born in Sullivan, Illinois in 1899.
He studied at the Chicago Art Academy and the school of the Art
Institute of Chicago. He taught art in South Bend, Illinois,
but in 1925 he moved to Houston, Texas. Three years later he
settled in the hill country outside San Antonio.
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- Although most of his life was spent in Texas, the state he
is most closely identified with, Roney studied with John Folinsbee
and Harry Leith Ross in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s.
He later studied with Texas painters Harry A. deYoung and Paul
R. Schumann.
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- From 1958 to 1978, he taught at the Froman School of Art,
in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.
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- He exhibited at the Southern States Art League, the Connecticut
Academy of the Fine Arts, Phillips Mill in New Hope, Pennsylvania,
and the New Orleans (Louisiana) Art Association. His work is
in the collection of the Witte Museum in San Antonio; the Austin
(Texas) Public Library; the Panhandle Plains Museum in Canyon,
Texas; the South Bend (Illinois) Public Schools; the Southwest
Texas State Teachers College; and the Austin Art League.
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