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1829 Birmingham, England - 1908 Raymond, California. Known for: Western landscape, national park painting.
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of... Read full biography
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and... Read full biography
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers. Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter.... Read full biography
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers. Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter. However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim. During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of... Read full biography
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers. Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter. However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim. During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of modernism. In the latter half of the 20th century, his work was rediscovered, and he is now considered one of... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Outdoor Sporting Scenes, Field and Stream, Hunting
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Alaska Before 1940
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Barbizon, France
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Colorado Rocky Mountains
- •Europe
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Lake Tahoe, California
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •Mount Rainier
- •Mount Tamalpais, California
- •New Orleans Before 1940
- •Niagara Falls
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Pacific Northwest Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Rocky Mountain School of Painting
- •West of Missouri River Before 1900
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
- •Yellowstone National Park
- •Yosemite National Park
Art Association
- •Bohemian Club
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Commerce, Award
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Peter Rothermel
Art School
- •California School of Design/Mark Hopkins Institute, Teaching
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
- •Chicago Union League Club
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •Kahn Collection
- •U.S. Embassy, Art in Embassies Program, Foundation
- •William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
- •Carriage, Horse and/or Railway Coach Painting, Decoration
- •Yosemite Park Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Centennial Exposition 1876, Philadelphia
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts