Romanian-born William Schulhoff was a painter known for his landscapes, figure paintings and graphic works. In 1914 he moved to Pennsylvania where he became a naturalized American citizen. Schulhoff studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1921-22 and at the Academy’s Chester Springs landscape school at the same academy in 1923-25 and 1927. During this time, he was granted two travelling scholarships. As early as 1926 Schulhoff started exhibiting in Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, and Paris. His painting The Hunt was exhibited at a MoMA exhibition in New York in 1930.