Guarisco Gallery 2012

71 George Hitchcock, A.N.A. he American painter George Hitchcock is best known for his impressionistic pictures of brilliantly colored Dutch tulip fields, peasant women, and mystical religious scenes. During his lifetime, Hitchcock was one of the best known of the American expatriate painters, holding memberships in prestigious academies and associations in the United States and abroad. A descendant of Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island Colony, Hitchcock was born into a prominent Rhode Island family, and received his education at Brown University and later Harvard Law. He practiced law for five years before pursuing an artistic career. Hitchcock studied painting in London, Düsseldorf, and Paris and spent two summers in the Hague where he established his reputation as the impressionist interpreter of the Dutch landscape. Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C.; Exposition Universelle, Paris; National Academy of Design, NewYork; Penn. Academy of Fine Arts, Phila.; Royal Academy, London; Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris [ Museums: Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum. of Art; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Smithsonian American Art Museum] Egmond-aan-Zee Frank Convers Mathewson American, 1862-1941 My Studio Garden signed, d. 1926, o/p 9-4/5” x 8” 11-1/5” x 9-1/2” fr. Exhibited: Providence Art Club, Rhode Island T During the late-19th century George Hitchcock, with his compatriot Gari Melchers, established an art colony in the small village of Egmond-aan- Zee on the Dutch coast. There, he painted genre scenes of Dutch village life in a light-filled impressionist style. The White Lilies is a prime example of Hitchcock’s signature style which incorporated the high- keyed palette and broken brushstrokes of the French Impressionists.