Hobson Pittman was born near Epworth, North Carolina. (There is conflicting information about his birth year, as Who's Who 1947 cites 1899 while Who's Who 1966 cites 1900). In 1906, his family moved... Read full biography
Hobson Pittman was born near Epworth, North Carolina. (There is conflicting information about his birth year, as Who's Who 1947 cites 1899 while Who's Who 1966 cites 1900). In 1906, his family moved to Tarboro, North Carolina, where he studied art from 1912 to 1916 at the Rouse Art School. In 1918,... Read full biography
Hobson Pittman was born near Epworth, North Carolina. (There is conflicting information about his birth year, as Who's Who 1947 cites 1899 while Who's Who 1966 cites 1900). In 1906, his family moved to Tarboro, North Carolina, where he studied art from 1912 to 1916 at the Rouse Art School. In 1918, he moved to Pennsylvania to continue his studies at Pennsylvania State College and Carnegie Institute. He later studied at Woodstock, New York, and in Europe in 1928. He exhibited extensively,... Read full biography
Hobson Pittman was born near Epworth, North Carolina. (There is conflicting information about his birth year, as Who's Who 1947 cites 1899 while Who's Who 1966 cites 1900). In 1906, his family moved to Tarboro, North Carolina, where he studied art from 1912 to 1916 at the Rouse Art School. In 1918, he moved to Pennsylvania to continue his studies at Pennsylvania State College and Carnegie Institute. He later studied at Woodstock, New York, and in Europe in 1928. He exhibited extensively, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He was a renowned teacher at various institutions:... Read full biography
Hobson Pittman was born near Epworth, North Carolina. (There is conflicting information about his birth year, as Who's Who 1947 cites 1899 while Who's Who 1966 cites 1900). In 1906, his family moved to Tarboro, North Carolina, where he studied art from 1912 to 1916 at the Rouse Art School. In 1918, he moved to Pennsylvania to continue his studies at Pennsylvania State College and Carnegie Institute. He later studied at Woodstock, New York, and in Europe in 1928. He exhibited extensively, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He was a renowned teacher at various institutions: Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia Museum School, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Bryn Mawr College.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (62)
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Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Fahlman, Betsy (Essay)
71 pages (color)
New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 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
Blue Chips
2004
Alterman, Jim
128 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Poet's Palette: Selected Works of Hobson Pittman
1999
Horne, Meade B
60 pages (color)
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Charleston Renaissance (Publ. of Charleston Renaissance Gallery)
1998
Severens, Martha R
216 pages (color)
150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Schwarz, Robert Devlin
130 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Marlor, Clark S
242 pages
Fine American and European Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Schwarz - Philadelphia
47 pages (color)
American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor)
76 pages
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 Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Woodstock's Art Heritage Permanent Collection Woodstock A A
1987
Woodstock Art Association
176 pages (color)
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Schwarz-Philadelphia
23 pages
The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wooden, Howard E. (Text)
64 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina (Exhibition catalog)
1976
North Carolina Museum of Art
146 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned) (Exhibition catalog)
1967
North Carolina Museum of Art
192 pages
Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
1966
McNight, Robert J
70 pages
Hobson Pittman Retrospective Exhibition-His Work since 1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Williams, Ben F (forward)
96 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
60 pages
Twenty Painters and How They Work
1950
Watson, Ernest W
158 pages (color)
Best of Art
1948
Genauer, Emily
182 pages (color)
Painting in the U S A
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
223 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting
1946
Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro)
260 pages (color)
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
22 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Painting Today and Yesterday in The United States Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1941
Bear, Donald Jeffries; Janet H. Lineberger (Essay)
120 pages
Through the American Landscape
1941
Klitgaard, Kaj
323 pages (color)
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists
1940
Hall, W. S.
150 pages (color)
American Painting Today
1939
Watson, Forbes (essay)
179 pages (color)
Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937 (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay)
32 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index