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Silas Hoadley (1786-1870) Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley worked for Eli Terry (circa 1807 to 1810) during the period when Terry invented the “factory system” to produce large quantities of identical, inexpensive clocks which then could be installed in a case of the customer’s choice (and purse), or simply hung on the wall. Circa 1810 Thomas and Hoadley bought Eli Terry’s clock shop in Plymouth, Connecticut and remained partners for about three years. Seth [...] 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. Historical Weapons – A Specialist’s Primer Abridged from Mr. Wiley’s Sword’s comments in the James Julia Auction catalogue for the sale of his collection. Historically identified weapons are among the most significant artifacts of the American past. They are also among the rarest. It is estimated that less than one per cent of antique (pre-1898) collector arms have significant identification as to their contemporary period usage. Typically inscribed, or documented by valid means to [...] Click here to continue reading. Eva Histia (born 1914) Eva Histia of the Acoma Pueblo is renowned for her owls. Her work has been published, most recently in Berger & Schiffer (2000: 4, 16, 122), and can be found in the Heard Museum’s collection. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. 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. Charles R. Higgins The son of a photographer, Higgins learned his craft as an apprentice to his father’s business in Bath, Maine. Eventually he would take over the business, which, at its peak, employed approximately ten people. Higgins’s hand-colored photos were created in a style similar to those of Wallace Nutting, who was the market leader in tinted photography in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Many Higgins photos are depictions of nature [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Henry Hidley (American, 1830 to 1872) Joseph Hidley was an itinerant artist, likely self-taught, who eked out a meager livelihood working a variety of jobs to support his wife and family, in addition to his painting. He was born in 1830, in Greenbush, New York, and of four siblings, was the only surviving child when his father died just before his fourth birthday. He lived with relatives and his mother until he married [...] 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. Cornelius “Connie” Hicks (American, 1899 to 1931) A painter and illustrator who died at the height of his career, only 32 years old. Educated at Pratt Art Institute in New York City, he later became an instructor there. He may be the best known for his illustration of the official Red Cross poster depicting a nurse in the foreground with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the background. Hicks also illustrated for Collier’s, [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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