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David Hockney (born 1937) Born in 1937 in Bradford, England, Hockney relocated in 1964 to Los Angeles where he was an award winning set designer and a profoundly adept photographer. His studies began at Bradford School of Art in 1953 and at London’s Royal College of Art beginning in 1959. Hockney’s artistic endeavors extend to a wide variety of media and, in addition to his landscapes and poolscapes; he is renowned for depictions of [...] Click here to continue reading. George Hitchcock (1850-1913) George Hitchcock was born in 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island. He had high academic expectations and studied at Brown and Harvard Law School before entering Acadamie Julian in Paris. In 1879 he quit his law practice to study painting. Hitchcock created Impressionistic pictures of brilliantly colored tulip fields in Holland, usually with a Dutch peasant woman in beautiful costuming. He became known as the “Painter of Sunlight.” He was married [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981) Joseph Hirsch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He trained at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and worked as an illustrator, printmaker, painter, and muralist. During World War II he served as a pictorial war correspondent. Hirsch is discussed and some of his work published in Our Flying Navy (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944). He died in New York in 1981. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952) Laura Coombs Hills was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1859. She was mostly self taught, but did study briefly at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the New York Art Students League as a pupil of Helen M. Knowlton. None of this training was for miniature painting yet it is miniature painting for which she is most noted. Her first exhibit, for “Seven Pretty Girls at Newburyport”, “The Bride”, [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas Hicks (1823-1890) Thomas Hicks was a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design in New York. He was a noted portrait, landscape and genre painter. His works are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, U.S. Capitol Building, and Rockefeller Center. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Edna Hibel (born 1917) Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork. She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin. She began to paint [...] Click here to continue reading. Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972) Aldro Hibbard was born August 25, 1886 in Falmouth, Massachusetts and studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School (1909), the Massachusetts College of Art, and with Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, Leslie P. Thompsen, Joseph R. DeCamp and Philip Hale at Boston’s Museum School (through 1913). Because he showed such talent, the MFA gave Hibbard a Paige Traveling Scholarship (1913 to 1915) to study abroad. Despite the fact that [...] Click here to continue reading. George Herriman (1880-1944) If ever a comic strip was Art, “Krazy Kat” was its best candidate for that honor. An undefinable amalgam of drama, humor, poetry line, tone and color, the cartoon feature was created by George Herriman published from 1916 to 1944. Its plot line was a skewed triangle: the central “Krazy Kat” of ambiguous gender, in love with “Ignatz” mouse, who did not return the compliment but retaliated with a thrown brick, [...] Click here to continue reading. Hermaphrodite Brig A hermaphrodite brig, or brig-schooner, is a two-masted sailing ship whose foremast is fully rigged with square sails while rigged with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast. It combines the two main types of sail plan, hence the term hermaphrodite. The hermaphrodite brig is distinguished from a brigantine in having exclusively fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast, while the brigantine has one or more square sails on the main topmast, above a gaff [...] Click here to continue reading. Henshaw, Glen Cooper (American, 1884-1946) Glen Henshaw is known for his landscape, portrait, and urban views and works done in Indiana and Maryland. Henshaw was the first pupil to enroll in the Herron Art Institute, where he studied with J. Ottis Adams. In 1902 he traveled to the Munich Academy, and from there to Paris in 1904. He attended the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, exhibited at the Salons and taught [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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