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Joseph Hidley BIOGRAPHY
1830 North Greenbush, New York - 1872 Poestenkill, New York. Known for: Naive birdseye townscapes, religious.
Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption.... Read full biography
Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption. He was born in 1830 in Greenbush, New York, and left an orphan at the age of four when his father... Read full biography
Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption. He was born in 1830 in Greenbush, New York, and left an orphan at the age of four when his father died, preceded in death by three other siblings of the young Hidley. When he later married, only three of his six children lived beyond infancy. In terms of making a livelihood as an artist, it was a... Read full biography
Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption. He was born in 1830 in Greenbush, New York, and left an orphan at the age of four when his father died, preceded in death by three other siblings of the young Hidley. When he later married, only three of his six children lived beyond infancy. In terms of making a livelihood as an artist, it was a scrabbling existence for survival, working, when he could find a job, at anything that came to hand to make a dollarhandyman, carpenter, house-painter, even taxidermist and church sexton and, of course, an artist. He painted landscapes and townscapes,... Read full biography
Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption. He was born in 1830 in Greenbush, New York, and left an orphan at the age of four when his father died, preceded in death by three other siblings of the young Hidley. When he later married, only three of his six children lived beyond infancy. In terms of making a livelihood as an artist, it was a scrabbling existence for survival, working, when he could find a job, at anything that came to hand to make a dollarhandyman, carpenter, house-painter, even taxidermist and church sexton and, of course, an artist. He painted landscapes and townscapes, for which he later became known, wood carvings and religious paintings. As a taxidermist, he made decorative arrangements of stuffed animals, d... Read full biography
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Joseph H Headley, Joseph H Hedley
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Joseph H. Hidley', whose paintings depicted townscapes and rural life in New England, was virtually unknown as an artist during his lifetime of forty-two years which ended in death from consumption. He was born in 1830 in Greenbush, New York, and left an orphan at the age of four when his father died, preceded in death by three other siblings of the young Hidley. When he later married, only three of his six children lived beyond infancy.
In terms of making a livelihood as an artist, it was a scrabbling existence for survival, working, when he could find a job, at anything that came to hand to make a dollarhandyman, carpenter, house-painter, even taxidermist and church sexton and, of course, an artist. He painted landscapes and towns...But wait, there's more...
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