Harry Leslie Hoffman ART FOR SALE

1871 Cressona, Pennsylvania - 1964 Old Lyme, Connecticut. Known for: Landscape, still life and underwater view painting.

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A man with strong academic art training, Harry Hoffman was judged by his peers to have done best with his landscapes when he painted what he saw and set aside the theories. He studied in Paris, worked at Yale University with John Ferguson Weir, and was a student at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond. But Willard Metcalf had the strongest influence, encouraging Hoffman to paint in the style of impressionism. In 1902, Hoffman went to Old Lyme, Connecticut, and stayed at the Florence Griswold House, returning for many subsequent summers. At one point, when he was exceptionally low on money, he nearly became a professional baseball player, but was dissuaded by his painter friends. He married Beatrice Pope from East Orange, New Jersey,... Read full biography

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At the Docks - Nassau

Type:Painting

Year:Circa 1920

Size:6.00" x 8.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed

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Oil on paperboard in very good condition. This neat little work of a Bahamas dock scene is signed lower center.. The image measure 4" x 6" and in a very fine custom frame. Hoffman made several trips to the Bahamas and Bermuda as well.