A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal... Read full biography
A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. An example of his work, a 12 x 8-inch oil on paper of a Clown, is intense in... Read full biography
A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. An example of his work, a 12 x 8-inch oil on paper of a Clown, is intense in characterization, feeling and creative use of fauvist, expressionist color. Hondius was influenced by French Expressionist painter and printmaker Georges Rouault. He was a WPA artist, whose mural of... Read full biography
A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. An example of his work, a 12 x 8-inch oil on paper of a Clown, is intense in characterization, feeling and creative use of fauvist, expressionist color. Hondius was influenced by French Expressionist painter and printmaker Georges Rouault. He was a WPA artist, whose mural of New York City became well known, and his primary subjects were ballerinas, landscapes, still lifes, and masked figures. Hondius had over fifty one-man exhibitions in Europe and the United States, as well as showing at New York City venues including the... Read full biography
A modernist artist who lived in both Provincetown, Massachusetts, and New York City, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He also studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. An example of his work, a 12 x 8-inch oil on paper of a Clown, is intense in characterization, feeling and creative use of fauvist, expressionist color. Hondius was influenced by French Expressionist painter and printmaker Georges Rouault. He was a WPA artist, whose mural of New York City became well known, and his primary subjects were ballerinas, landscapes, still lifes, and masked figures. Hondius had over fifty one-man exhibitions in Europe and the United States, as well as showing at New York City venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1924-26, 1932 and 1934; the 1939 World's Fair; Museum of Modern Art; Rockefeller Center; and Graham... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (12)
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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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture