Background
Kuhler, Renaldo Gillet was born on November 21, 1931 in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Son of Otto August and Simonne L. (Gillet) Kuhler.
museum official scientific illustrator
Kuhler, Renaldo Gillet was born on November 21, 1931 in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Son of Otto August and Simonne L. (Gillet) Kuhler.
Bachelor, U. Colorado, 1961. Curator of history, illustrator exhibit and miniature diorama preparator Eastern Washington State History Society Museum, Spokane, 1962-1967. Museum illustrator North Carolina State Museum Natural History, Raleigh, 1969.
Designer, executor of art work for science illustrations, awards, brochures, pamphletsand periodicals Department Agriculture and Museum, North Carolina, 1972-1974.
Designer 36 illustrations for Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida, Participant 1 (Ray East. Ashton), 1981. Contributor many illustrations, Atlas of Freshwater Fishes of North America (David Lee), Endangered Threatened and RareFauna of North Carolina (Ross, Rohde and Lindquist), Distribution Survey of North Carolina Mammals (Lee, Funderburg and Clark).
Endangered Threatened and Rare Fauna of North Carolina, part 1, (Mary K. Clark), Potential Effect of Oil Spills on Seabirds, et cetera (Lee and Socci), Poisonous Snakes of North Carolina (William M. Palmer), Reptiles of North Carolina (William M. Palmer and Alvin Braswell).
General illustrator: American Firearms and the Changing Frontier (Waldo East. Rosebush).
Also contributor to journals and bulletins. Currently working on skull illustrations for Mammals of North Carolina (Mary Kay Clark). Calligrapher; creator wood handicrafts.
Violin maker, 1949.
Curator of history, illustrator exhibit, miniature diorama preparator Eastern Washington State History Society Museum, Spokane, 1962-1967. Museum illustrator North Carolina State Museum Natural History, Raleigh, 1969—2003, retired, 1999. Designer, executor of art work for science illustrations, awards, brochures, pamphlets and periodicals Department Agriculture and Museum, North Carolina, 1972-1974.
Designer 36 illustrations for Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida, Part 1 (Ray E. Ashton), 1981. Contributor many illustrations Atlas of Freshwater Fishes of North America (David Lee), Endangered Threatened and Rare Fauna of North Carolina (Ross, Rohde and Lindquist), Distribution Survey of North Carolina Mammals (Lee, Funderburg and Clark). Endangered Threatened and Rare Fauna of North Carolina, part 1 (Mary K. Clark), Potential Effect of Oil Spills on Seabirds, etc.
(Lee and Socci), Poisonous Snakes of North Carolina (William M. Palmer), Reptiles of North Carolina (William M. Palmer and Alvin Braswell), Synopsis of North American Centipede (Rowland Shelley), 2002. General illustrator: American Firearms and the Changing Frontier (Waldo E. Rosebush). Also thirteen illustrations Fishes of chesapeake Bay contributor to journals and bulletins including Then.C.Naturalist.
Currently working on skull illustrations for Mammals of North Carolina (Mary Kay Clark). Calligrapher; creator wood handicrafts. Violin maker, 1949.
Member Democratic National Committee. Life member Raleigh Rhinoceros Club, since 2000. Volunteer science illustrator North Carolina State Museum Natural History, since 1999.
Member National Trust History Preservation, National Smokers Alliance, Rails to Trails, East Coast Greenway Alliance, Environment North Carolina, Raleigh Rhinoceros Club (life), Raleigh Cardinal Club, Triangle Society, Human Rights Campaign, Preservation North Carolina.
1 child, Anne Marie Cooper.