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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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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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