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1850 Providence, Rhode Island - 1913 Island of Maarken, Holland. Known for: Light-filled landscape, figure, floral and genre painting.
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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Keywords (46)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Peasant Figure, Genre
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Hendrik Wilhelm Mesdag
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Dusseldorf Art Academy, Germany, Student
- •Heatherly School of Fine Art, London, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts