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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Books & Publications (26)
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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
The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997
Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester
288 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Between the Rivers/Itinerant Painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Heslip, Colleen C
95 pages (color)
Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
1,160 pages (color)
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985
Spasky, Natalie
671 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Rorimer, James/JohnWalker
159 pages (color)
Rediscovered Painters of Upstste New York/1700-1875
1958
Jones, Agnes Halsey
80 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860