A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, George Hitchcock practiced law in the second half of the 1870s but meeting with little success as a lawyer, took up painting and at age 29, left... Read full biography
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, George Hitchcock practiced law in the second half of the 1870s but meeting with little success as a lawyer, took up painting and at age 29, left America and became one of the more well-known expatriate painters at the turn of the century. His... Read full biography
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, George Hitchcock practiced law in the second half of the 1870s but meeting with little success as a lawyer, took up painting and at age 29, left America and became one of the more well-known expatriate painters at the turn of the century. His specialty became images of the sea with depictions of fishing activity and peasants. His early work was quite muted, but he later became known as the "painter of sunlight" because of brightly colored... Read full biography
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, George Hitchcock practiced law in the second half of the 1870s but meeting with little success as a lawyer, took up painting and at age 29, left America and became one of the more well-known expatriate painters at the turn of the century. His specialty became images of the sea with depictions of fishing activity and peasants. His early work was quite muted, but he later became known as the "painter of sunlight" because of brightly colored florals and landscapes with abstract patterns of contrasting color. This transition was applauded by the public and exhibition judges in 1887 when he received a gold medal at the Paris Salon for his painting entry A Culture des Tulips, which had... Read full biography
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, George Hitchcock practiced law in the second half of the 1870s but meeting with little success as a lawyer, took up painting and at age 29, left America and became one of the more well-known expatriate painters at the turn of the century. His specialty became images of the sea with depictions of fishing activity and peasants. His early work was quite muted, but he later became known as the "painter of sunlight" because of brightly colored florals and landscapes with abstract patterns of contrasting color. This transition was applauded by the public and exhibition judges in 1887 when he received a gold medal at the Paris Salon for his painting entry A Culture des Tulips, which had bright multi-colored tulips surrounding a peasant woman. When he left America, Hitchcock studied English watercolor... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Stott Annette; Holly Koons McCullough et al
288 pages (color)
De uitdaging van het licht (The Challenge of Light) George Hitchcock American Painter 1850-1913
2009
van den Berg, Peter J.H., Ph.D.
194 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
American Art From the Dicke Collection
1997
The Dayton Art Institute
264 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
American Impressionist Masterpieces
1991
Peters, Lisa N
119 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Gari Melchers His Works in the Belmont Collection
1984
Dreiss, Joseph G; William H. Gerdts (Intro)
201 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gerdts, William H
144 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
The Hague School and its American Legacy (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Goley, Mary Ann
42 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1916
Brinton, Christian
203 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit