Arthur Josiah Hammond - Artist Info

About Arthur Josiah Hammond

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    A portrait, marine and landscape painter, Arthur Josiah Hammond (A. J. Hammond) was born April 3, 1875, in Vernon, Connecticut. He studied five years at the Pape School of Design, Boston, Massachusetts, and also was tutored by George Loftus Noyes (1864-1954) and Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940).

    In 1905, Hammond and his wife, Ruth Freese Hammond, traveled for two and one half years in England, Wales, France, Belgium and Holland, where he studied and made some 300 paintings, particularly along the Cornish coast and in Paris. In 1915, he, his wife and son Maro Freese Hammond, drove west, where Hammond painted in California, New Mexico and Arizona. Subsequent painting trips to the West occurred in 1923 and 1...

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