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Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) was a mural painter, designer, decorator, and writer who worked mainly in New York and Paris.
Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. Hiler attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Denver, University of Paris, and Golden State University. While living in Paris as an expatriate, he became friends with Henry Miller, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Anais Nin. After returning to the United States, he was named art director of the bathhouse building at the San Francisco Aquatic Park (1936-1939) which was a major Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.
Hiler was best know for his combining of his artistic and psychoanalytical training to create an original perspective on color. Throughout his career Hiler moved towards abstract imagery and by the 1940s his theories on color and abstraction developed into a movement he called "Structuralism".
Hiler died on January 20, 1966 at the age of sixty-nine.