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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. 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. 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. William Penhallow Henderson (1877-1943) William Penhallow Henderson lived, briefly, in Santa Fe as a young boy before his family’s return to their native Massachusetts. He studied at the Boston Museum School under Edmund C. Tarbell. Winning the prestigious Paige Scholarship allowed him to travel to Europe and study everything from the Old Masters to the then-modern Impressionists. Upon his return to the States, he took a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts [...] Click here to continue reading. Knute Heldner (1877-1952) A native of Vederlow Smoland, Sweden, Knute Heldner came to the United States in 1902. Upon his arrival, he worked as a cobbler in Minneapolis for several years. Heldner was later a miner on the Iron Range and a forest guide and lumberjack in the woods of northern Minnesota before he decided to devote himself completely to painting. After making this decision, he studied at the Minneapolis School of Art for [...] Click here to continue reading. Colette Pope Heldner (1902-1990) Colette Pope Heldner settled in New Orleans with her husband in 1923, living in the French Quarter. She became famous for her impressionistic scenes of New Orleans patios and swampland shacks near the water. She captured the essence and spirit of New Orleans in its heyday, and her works are a reminder of the distinct character of the port city. Colette’s work has been included in many important American impressionist [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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