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1900 Hallsville, Illinois - 1955 Roswell, New Mexico. Known for: Modernist town-landscape painting, mural.
Painter. Born in Hallsville, IL on March 26, 1900. Hunter studied at the Denver Academy of Art, AIC, MiIIikin University (IL), and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He taught at Otis Art Institute from... Read full biography
Painter. Born in Hallsville, IL on March 26, 1900. Hunter studied at the Denver Academy of Art, AIC, MiIIikin University (IL), and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He taught at Otis Art Institute from 1923-27 and was active in Los Angeles until 1930 when he moved to New Mexico. During the 1930s he... Read full biography
Painter. Born in Hallsville, IL on March 26, 1900. Hunter studied at the Denver Academy of Art, AIC, MiIIikin University (IL), and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He taught at Otis Art Institute from 1923-27 and was active in Los Angeles until 1930 when he moved to New Mexico. During the 1930s he was active with the Federal Art Project and later served as director of the Roswell Art Museum, a position he held until his death on March 20, 1955. Exh: Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1925-26; Calif. WC... Read full biography
Painter. Born in Hallsville, IL on March 26, 1900. Hunter studied at the Denver Academy of Art, AIC, MiIIikin University (IL), and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He taught at Otis Art Institute from 1923-27 and was active in Los Angeles until 1930 when he moved to New Mexico. During the 1930s he was active with the Federal Art Project and later served as director of the Roswell Art Museum, a position he held until his death on March 20, 1955. Exh: Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1925-26; Calif. WC Society, 1927; CPLH, 1933; GGIE, 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939. In: Dallas Museum; Virginia Museum; Museum of NM. WWAA 1940-53; Sam; SCA; Texas Painters (Powers). Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes
Painter. Born in Hallsville, IL on March 26, 1900. Hunter studied at the Denver Academy of Art, AIC, MiIIikin University (IL), and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright. He taught at Otis Art Institute from 1923-27 and was active in Los Angeles until 1930 when he moved to New Mexico. During the 1930s he was active with the Federal Art Project and later served as director of the Roswell Art Museum, a position he held until his death on March 20, 1955. Exh: Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1925-26; Calif. WC Society, 1927; CPLH, 1933; GGIE, 1939; NY World's Fair, 1939. In: Dallas Museum; Virginia Museum; Museum of NM. WWAA 1940-53; Sam; SCA; Texas Painters (Powers). Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here.
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •Dallas Nine
Art School
- •Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Mural Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC