Masters of Their Craft

Artists

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39,743 artists in the collection

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Hill, David Octavius

Scottish

Scottish, 1802 - 1870

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Hillel Braverman

German or French

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Hillers, John K.

American

American, born Germany, 1843 - 1925

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Hiller, Susan

American

American, 1940 - 2019

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Hilliard, Nicholas

English

English, probably 1547 - 1619

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Hillier, Tristram

British

British, 1905 - 1983

Tristram Paul Hillier (11 April 1905 – 18 January 1983) was an English surrealist painter. He was a member of the Unit One group led by Paul Nash.

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Hilling, John

British

British, 1822 - 1894

John Hilling (1822 – 14 August 1894) was a British painter who lived and worked in America. He moved from Britain to America in the 1840s, settling in the town of Bath, Maine. In 1864 he enlisted as a private in the army during the American Civil War, but was invalided out a year later with a spinal injury. On his return to Bath he made a living as an interior decorator, moving to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1873, but moving back to Wells, Maine a few years later. He died in Wells in 1894 and was buried in Bath. He had married twice and had at least 3 children, two of whom died young. As an artist he is best known for his paintings of the town of Bath, particularly the series of three history paintings based on the burning of the old South Church in Bath by anti-Catholic rioters.

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Hill, John

American

American, born England, 1770 - 1850

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Hill, John Henry

American

American, 1839 - 1922

Hill, John William

Hill, John William

American

American, 1812 - 1879

John William Hill or often J.W. Hill (January 13, 1812 – September 24, 1879) was a British-born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving. Hill's work focused primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.

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Hill, Polly Knipp

American

American, 1900 - 1990

Pauline Knipp Hill (2 April 1900-22 February 1990) was an American artist from Ithaca, New York. Her work was shown 7 April 2012 – 3 June 2012 at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia. She grew up in Urbana, Illinois. Knipp and George Snow Hill were students of Carl Tracy Hawley in the College of Fine Arts at the Syracuse University. She followed Hill to Paris, France after graduation and they were married on 16 November 1925, in St. Luke's Chapel. She produced etchings of European architecture early in her career and "satirical genre scenes that reflected American culture" later. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. She died in 1990 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The estate and several of her and her husband's works were sold off after the death of their son George Jr. Myers Fine Art and Auction House purchased George Snow Hill's in 1990.

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Hillsmith, Fannie

American

American, 1911 - 2007

Fannie Hillsmith (1911 – July 27, 2007) was an American cubist painter from Boston who during a long career, mostly based in New York City, developed a style of Cubism which combined traditional Cubist motifs with what she called "an early American feeling."