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William Samuel Horton (1865-1936) . Horton was born and raised in the American midwest. His family tried repeatedly to dissuade him from his artistic endeavors, and he ultimately severed all family ties. In 1892 he began his studies in Paris, and although he frequently returned to America, New York in particular, he remained closely associated with the French Impressionists – he especially enjoyed the company of Monet, Degas, and Pissarro, as well as that [...] Click here to continue reading. Horn of Plenty Glass Pattern Glass in the Horn of Plenty pattern was produced in America from the 1850′s through the 1860′s by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., Bryce Brothers, McKee Brothers and perhaps other glassmakers. It is identical to the Comet pattern, which was made only by Boston & Sandwich. It is mostly found in clear flint, but some rare color pieces are known, including pieces in cobalt blue, canary yellow, amber, [...] Click here to continue reading. Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937) Edna Boies Hopkins was born in Hudson, Michigan, and married Ohio artist, James R. Hopkins (1877-1969) in 1904. She studied at the Pratt Institute with Arthur Wesley Dow, at The Ohio State University, and in Paris. Although she was a painter, she is primarily known as a color printmaker in Provincetown at the turn of the century. With her husband, she lived for extended periods in Paris (1905-1914 and [...] Click here to continue reading. Dorothy Hood (1919 to 2000) Dorothy Hood is a noted Abstract Expressionist, born in Bryan, Texas, in 1919. She spent a significant amount of time in Mexico and was influenced by her friend Jose Clemente Orozco. A prolific painter, she created many oversized canvases with large areas of solid and unusual colors. A poet as well as a painter, she became part of the circle of leading artists and writers of Europe and Mexico. [...] Click here to continue reading. Johann Baptist Homann Johann Homann (1663 to 1724) and heirs are acknowledged to be the most important German map publishing firm of the 18th century, having supplanted the Dutch cartography which dominated the 17th century. The Homann firm was founded in Nurnberg about 1702. Soon after publishing his first atlas in 1707, the founder became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and, in 1715, he was appointed Geographer to Emperor Charles VI. [...] Click here to continue reading. Alvin Carl Hollingsworth (1928-2000). Alvin Hollingsworth, African-American comic-strip illustrator and painter, was born in New York City and began drawing at the age of four, and by the time he was twelve, he was an artist assistant at Holyoke Publishing Company for Catman’s Comics. A year later he was doing illustrations for Crime Comics. His paintings dealt with themes of contemporary social issues such as the Civil Rights Movement, women’s struggles, spiritual concepts, jazz, [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (1875-1957) Charles Hoffbauer was born in France and he studied in Paris with Gustave Moreau Fernand Cormon. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1890s, and his work won numerous awards during his carrerr. During WWI, he produced dramatic renditions of battlefield scenes and sent them to magazines for publication. He was a prolific artist who always sketched studies before completing a work. He often painted historical scenes. Information courtesy [...] Click here to continue reading. Marston Dean Hodgin (1903-2003) Marston Hodgin was born in Cambridge, Ohio and graduated from Earlham College in Indiana. Starting in 1927, he headed the art department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for the next 36 years. Throughout his career he exhibited in Indiana and won several awards. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions 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. Anthony Hochstein (1823-1872) Anthony Hochstein (also painted under the name Anton Hohenstein) was a genre and portrait painter who was born in Bavaria. He came to America in the early to mid-1850s and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylanvia. At some point (probably 1859 or 1860) Hohenstein apparently changed his name to Anthony Hochstein. This assumption is made because the latter name appears in PAFA exhibition records for 1865 (for a special competitive exhibtion sponsered by [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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