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1887 Brazil, Indiana - 1962 Wilmington, Delaware. Known for: Genre, portrait, illustrator.
Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the... Read full biography
Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the life of the cowboy, as well as formal portraits. When he was five years old, his family moved to... Read full biography
Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the life of the cowboy, as well as formal portraits. When he was five years old, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he grew up around horses he would later paint. An artistically precocious youngster, Hoskins worked for the "Denver Post" newspaper as a cartoonist when only fourteen. Three years... Read full biography
Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the life of the cowboy, as well as formal portraits. When he was five years old, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he grew up around horses he would later paint. An artistically precocious youngster, Hoskins worked for the "Denver Post" newspaper as a cartoonist when only fourteen. Three years later, in 1904, his mother died. When the family moved to Chicago, Hoskins studied with Thomas Wood Stevens, Charles Francis Browne, John Vanderpoel and Frank Phoenix at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, he became a mural designer for... Read full biography
Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the life of the cowboy, as well as formal portraits. When he was five years old, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he grew up around horses he would later paint. An artistically precocious youngster, Hoskins worked for the "Denver Post" newspaper as a cartoonist when only fourteen. Three years later, in 1904, his mother died. When the family moved to Chicago, Hoskins studied with Thomas Wood Stevens, Charles Francis Browne, John Vanderpoel and Frank Phoenix at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, he became a mural designer for the Marshall Field and Company Department Store, and "Red Book Magazine" published his first illustrations. He moved to Wilmington, Dela... Read full biography
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Painter, illustrator Gayle Porter Hoskins was born July 20, 1887 in Brazil, Indiana, but he would become associated with Delaware. His subjects included dramatic episodes from American history, the life of the cowboy, as well as formal portraits.
When he was five years old, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he grew up around horses he would later paint. An artistically precocious youngster, Hoskins worked for the "Denver Post" newspaper as a cartoonist when only fourteen. Three years later, in 1904, his mother died. When the family moved to Chicago, Hoskins studied with Thomas Wood Stevens, Charles Francis Browne, John Vanderpoel and Frank Phoenix at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, he became a mural design...But wait, there's more...
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