Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 pages (color)
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1904 Carrington, North Dakota - 1983 Maui, Hawaii. Known for: Desert landscape painting, illustration.
Born in Carrington, North Dakota, John Hilton is known for desert landscape painting as well as scenes with cowboys, horses, and cattle. He was also a poet, musician, geologist, miner, and... Read full biography
Born in Carrington, North Dakota, John Hilton is known for desert landscape painting as well as scenes with cowboys, horses, and cattle. He was also a poet, musician, geologist, miner, and entertainer. His father was a baker, and the family lived in a shack on a farm. When he was four, he went to... Read full biography
Born in Carrington, North Dakota, John Hilton is known for desert landscape painting as well as scenes with cowboys, horses, and cattle. He was also a poet, musician, geologist, miner, and entertainer. His father was a baker, and the family lived in a shack on a farm. When he was four, he went to China with his mother and father, who became a missionary. There he met Chinese bandits, philosophers, and walked along the Great Wall by the time he was age 10. The family was separated during the Sun... Read full biography
Born in Carrington, North Dakota, John Hilton is known for desert landscape painting as well as scenes with cowboys, horses, and cattle. He was also a poet, musician, geologist, miner, and entertainer. His father was a baker, and the family lived in a shack on a farm. When he was four, he went to China with his mother and father, who became a missionary. There he met Chinese bandits, philosophers, and walked along the Great Wall by the time he was age 10. The family was separated during the Sun Yat Sen revolution, and thinking the father was dead, the mother returned to North Dakota where the father eventually found them. John moved to Los Angeles in 1918 and worked for a gem company, but it folded during the Depression. Then he designed... Read full biography
Born in Carrington, North Dakota, John Hilton is known for desert landscape painting as well as scenes with cowboys, horses, and cattle. He was also a poet, musician, geologist, miner, and entertainer. His father was a baker, and the family lived in a shack on a farm. When he was four, he went to China with his mother and father, who became a missionary. There he met Chinese bandits, philosophers, and walked along the Great Wall by the time he was age 10. The family was separated during the Sun Yat Sen revolution, and thinking the father was dead, the mother returned to North Dakota where the father eventually found them. John moved to Los Angeles in 1918 and worked for a gem company, but it folded during the Depression. Then he designed jewelry for Hollywood film stars and sold stones world wide. In the 1930s, financially broke, he mov... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (24)
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Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
2010
(Exhibition catalog)Fillmore, Gary77 pages (color)The Adobes of Twentynine Palms 2nd Edition, 2009 (1988 1st Ed)
2009Rimmington, Pat (Desert Spirit Press)164 pagesThe Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArtists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesLandscapes of the West
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Stragnell, Robert60 pagesArtists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesCalifornia Artists 1935-1956
1981McCall, Dewitt Clinton III212 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel730 pagesThe Man Who Captured Sunshine
1978Ainsworth, Katherine288 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesSelections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Museum of Texas Tech Univ60 pages (color)Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art192 pages (color)Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc 1971 Year Book
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Barrie, Erwin S (editor)68 pages (color)Hilton Paints the Desert
1971Hilton, John W14 pages (color)Treasury of Living Art A collection of the works of member artists
1970
(Exhibition catalog)Desert Art Center, Inc112 pages (color)Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc 1965 Year Book
1965
(Exhibition catalog)Barrie, Erwin S (editor)73 pagesRead Mullan Gallery of Western Art
1964
(Exhibition catalog)Read Mullan Gallery40 pages (color)Painters of the Desert
1961Ainsworth, Ed111 pages (color)Widening Horizons: Painters of the Western Desert
1952Ainsworth, Edward97 pagesSonora Sketch Book
1947Hilton, John William333 pages