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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 Hetzel The nineteenth century Pennsylvania artist George Hetzel immigrated to America with his parents in the 1830′s from their home in France’s Alsace region. The Hetzel’s ultimately settled in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh where George was raised. As a young adult George traveled to Germany to study painting at the Dusseldorf Academy, where he was influenced by the work of Asher Durand and others. As a mature artist back in Pennsylvania, Hetzel founded [...] Click here to continue reading. Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832-1932) “His faculty of catching at a glance all that is characteristic in the motive before him, of choosing the most effective illumination, and even the most favorable season and time of day, assisted by a rapidity of execution which enables him to seize and fetter the most transient phenomena of light and shade . . . amounts to genius, and makes his pictures unique among landscapes.” In these glowing words, [...] Click here to continue reading. Herter Brothers One of the Victorian era’s leading interior design and custom furniture manufactures, Herter Brothers operated in New York City from 1865 to 1907. Gustave Herter immigrated to America in 1848 from Suttgart, Germany and quickly became one of the leading cabinetmakers and interior designers in New York. His elder brother Christian immigrated in 1859 and joined his brothers firm in 1864 where the pair created entire interiors for some of the most [...] 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. The Henry Rifle, named after its designer, B. Tyler Henry, is one of the scarcest and most sought after Winchester rifles of any period. About 14,000 of these Civil War era rifles were produced between 1860 and 1866. Serial numbers began at #1 and most often found at top of the breach end of the barrel, marked “Henry’s Patent. Oct 16, 1860/Manufact’d by the New Haven Arms Co., New Haven, Ct.” The Henry rifle [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Henri (1865-1929) He was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865. After his father shot a man to death in 1882 and was indicted for murder Mrs. Cozad moved young Robert to Atlantic City, New Jersey and the young man changed his name to Robert Henri. He enrolled in 1885 at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Thomas Anschutz. In 1888 he made his first trip [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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