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 Hibbard was a remarkably gifted baseball player and was asked to join pro teams, he gave up sports to become a professional painter and instructor. In 1915 Hibbard was instructor of painting at Boston University. He was a Founding Member and director of the Rocpkort Art Association (MA) Summer School of Drawing and Painting (1921 to 1928), which later became the Hibbard School of Painting. He is best known for his post-impressionistic winter landscapes of New England. He died in Rockport, Massachusetts on November 12, 1972.
The following additional information courtesy of Skinner, Inc., September 2006.
American Impressionist landscape painter Aldro Thompson Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA in 1886. He grew up in Dorchester and Boston and spent many of his summers on Cape Cod. He later acquired a studio in Jamaica, Vermont, gaining admiration for the rural snow-covered landscapes he produced there. Hibbard taught for many years and was an important founding member of the Rockport Art Colony along with Lester Hornby and Anthony Thieme.