Landscape painter and lithograph artist Elmer “Skinny” Schooley (1916-2007) was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He obtained his BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1938 and his MA in Painting at the State University of Iowa in 1942. After serving in the Air Force during World War II, Skinny taught painting and printmaking at the New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas from 1947 to 1977. He became Head of the Art Department in 1956. He founded the university gallery and the first lithographic workshop in the state. Skinny’s prints and paintings are in the collections of, amongst others, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He won over thirty art prizes between 1949 and 1964, culminating with the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in Visual Arts in 1986. After Skinny and his wife, artist Gussie DuJardin, participated in the RAiR program (1977-78), they permanently relocated to Roswell across from the Historic Studios. They were mentors and friends to generations of artists-in-residence. Their artworks were co-exhibited in a retrospective exhibition at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in 2003-04.

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