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Born in Philadelphia, George Harding attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at night from 1899 to 1900, while he worked with the architectural firm of Frederick Mann during the day. Following the advice of his sister Charlotte, who had studied with Howard PyIe at Drexel, he went to Wilmington to study for a year and a half. He attended the summer school at Chadds Ford in 1902 and 1903. |
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Artist, treacher, museum director, critic, conservationist, and traveler-explorer, Wiliam Hekking had a rare combination of talents. He was born in Chelsea, Wisconsin. His father had been a sailor-seaman for years, rounding the Cape of Good Hope many times. Stories of the sea-faring world left an indullable impression on Hekking. His love of the sea and of people whose lives depended on it inspired not only much of his artistic work, including two hundred seascapes, but also his travels to the isolated Eskimo villages on the North Atlantic coast of Canada. |
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Margaretta Hinchman was born in Philadelphia in 1877, She was a student of Charles Grafly, Kenyon Cox, and Howard Pyle in 1895-99 at Drexel Institute. She later maintained a studio in an old brick house on Walnut Street in Philadelphia. Not only was Hinchman an illustrator, but she was a landscape painter and muralist as well. An example of her murals can be found in the hallway at the Sweetbriar Mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. |
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Gayle Porter Hoskins was born in Brazil, Indiana, on July 20, 1887, but moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, when he was five. He developed his intimate knowledge of horses, reflected later in his paintings, during his years in Colorado. At the age of fourteen, he became a cartoonist for the Denver Post. After his mother's death in 1904, the family moved to Chicago, and Hoskins enrolled in the Chicago Art Institute, where he studied under Charles Francis Browne, Frank Phoenix, Thomas Wood Stevens, and John Vanderpoel. In 1907 he became a mural designer for Marshall Field and Company. In this same year his first illustrations were published in Red Book. |
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