BIOGRAPHY

Education and Training
Carnegie Technical Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Grand Central School of Art, New York, New York

Teachers and Influences
Harvey Dunn

Connection to Bucks County
James Schucker was a Bucks County resident since 1940. For about 17 years years, James Schucker lived on a 170 acre farm in Haycock, Bucks County, where in the 1960's, they raised sheep as a hobby.

Schucker started out with 12 sheep and a house that cost him three times its original price to repair. Eventually, he was raising up to 650 sheep. The main reason Schucker came to Bucks County was for its aesthetic qualities.

In 1957, James Schucker moved to Quakertown, where he lived until his death in 1988.

One evening in February of 1970, fire broke out in Schucker's barn-studio behind his home. More than 100 paintings were passed down an outside stairway by firemen.

Schucker's students had left 15 minutes prior to the fire. The cause of the fire was believed to be a cigarette in a trashcan, and Schucker was unable to estimate the losses to the barn-studio or some of paintings either by fire or by water.