Jules was born in 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland. He contracted polio as a child which damaged his legs. He used canes and braces for the rest of his life. He attended
Baltimore City College and the
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He then moved to New York City where he studied at the
Art Students League of New York. His teachers included
Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s Jules was a member of the Silk Screen Unit of the
Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Fine Arts Project. In 1940, he married fellow artist Rita Albers (1914 - 1974), with whom he had three children. He then went on to teach at Smith until 1970 where he served for a time as head of the art department. From 1970 until 1980 he served as chairman of the art department of the
City College of New York (CCNY) Jules' work was included in 1944
Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the
National Serigraph Society. Jules died on July 29, 1994, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Jules' work is in the collections of the
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, the
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the
Baltimore Museum of Art,
Harvard Art Museums, the
Museum of Modern Art, the
Phillips Collection, the
Portland Art Museum, the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the
Whitney Museum of American Art. ==References==