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Museums page for George Hitchcock ((1850 - 1913)), known for Light-filled landscape, figure, floral and genre painting. Showing 9 museum collections and exhibitions.
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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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About George Hitchcock: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (9)
All MuseumsLos Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Sheffield Art Galleries G & Mappin
Sheffield, United KingdomTelfair Museum of Art
Po Box 10081
Savannah, GA 31412The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The John H. Vanderpoel Art Association
9625 S. Longwood Drive (Ridge Park)
Chicago, IL 60643The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697