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Marston D. Hodgin
American, born 1903
Chair of the art department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1927 to 1963, Marston Hodgin was born in Cambridge, Ohio and had a career as painter and teacher. He studied at Earlham College, University of Chicago, Indiana University, and with Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art.
In 1935, he traveled to northern California, painting along the coast at Eureka.
His primary exhibition venue was the Richmond, Indiana Art Association, where he displayed his paintings from 1922 to 1965, often winning prizes. He also exhibited with the Hoosier Salon, the Provincetown Art Association and the Dayton Art Association.
Irwin Hoffman- Irwin D. Hoffman (1901-1989), was born on Chelsea Street, East Boston in 1901, one of four sons of Russian immigrant parents. Hoffman's artistic talents were recognized very early on and by the age of 15, Hoffman enrolled as a special student at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, and upon graduating from high school, became a full-time student on full scholarship.
At age 19, Boston's Grace Horne Galleries gave the young artist his first solo show where his works were displayed to the public in grand manner and the press referred to him as "a prodigy in portraiture." In 1924, Hoffman received The Paige Traveling Scholarship, the Museum School's most prestigious award. Traveling abroad with fellow award recipients and good friends Aiden Lassell Ripley and Carl Gordon Cutler, he studied and painted across Europe and became "grounded in the traditions of the past, but at the same time … keenly (aware of) the modern trend of painting, discerning in it a spirit and regeneration which greatly influenced his development." (Arnold Hoffman)
Upon his return from Europe, Hoffman established himself in a NYC studio, which he maintained until his death in 1989. From his base in New York, Hoffman traveled during the 30s & 40s with his brothers who owned a mining company and prospected in the southwestern US, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Many of the canvases in this current exhibition reflect these travels. Hoffman connected and became friendly with the local residents of the small villages he visited, as with the miners who worked for his brothers.
Known early on as a talented portrait artist, and later as a prominent etcher of gritty genre scenes, the current exhibition highlights Irwin D. Hoffman's mastery of the oil medium. His brilliant hues and impasto technique convey atmosphere and attitude while establishing an empathic connection between subject and viewer.
Irwin D. Hoffman, painter, etcher, sculptor and lithographer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1901. He was one of four sons belonging to a set of Russian immigrants. Irwin stood out at an early age as being gifted artistically and at the age of fifteen he was enrolled as a special student and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.
Upon graduation Hoffman became a full-time student on full scholarship, and it was then, at the age of nineteen that he had his first solo show at Grace Horne Galleries in Boston. That exhibition was a huge success and the young artist was referred to as "a prodigy in portraiture" by the press. In 1924 Hoffman received the most prestigious award given by the Boston Museum School, the Paige Traveling Scholarship. The scholarship allowed him to travel abroad, studying and painting all across Europe. It was then that he not only came face to face with the traditions that he had learned in school, but perhaps more importantly, became aware of the modern trends that were sweeping the European art scene at the time.
After completing his studies overseas (he also visited Russia in 1929), Hoffman set up a studio in New York City, which he maintained until his death. The city was his base from which to work, but his love for new experiences caused him to often tag along with his brothers. Hoffman's brothers owned a mining company and prospected in the southwest, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The artist in Hoffman was heavily influenced by the people of the small villages that he visited while with his brothers' mining company.
Studied
Boston Museum of Fine Arts School with Philip Hale
Abroad in Europe
Member
Society of American Graphic Artists
Society of Independent Artists
Associated American Artists
Society of American Etchers
Print Club of Albany
Work
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
The Washington County Museum of the Fine Arts, Maryland
St. Joseph College Art Gallery, Connecticut
Kansas City Art Institute
Colorado School, Golden, (mines mural)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Georgia Museum of Art
Museum of Art &Archaeology, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Print Club of Albany
Awards
Pennell purchase prize, Library of Congress, 1938-1940
John Taylor Arms Award, 1938
Paige Traveling Scholarship, Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1924
Society of American Graphic Artists, 1924, 1928
Mrs. Henry Noys Prize for Etching
Exhibited
Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, 1927 (solo)
New School of Social Research, New York City, 1932 (solo)
ACA Gallery, New York City, 1933
Empire Galleries, New York City, 1934 (solo)
Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York City, 1935 (solo)
Associated American Artists, "Miners and Reapers," New York City, 1939 (solo), 1940 (solo), 1945 (solo), 1952
Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939 (mining murals)
Society of American Etchers, National Arts Club, New York City, 1940
Barzansky Galleries, New York City, 1941
Boston Public Library, 1981 (solo)
Salons of America, 1934
The Old Print Shop, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941
Brooklyn Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1940-1941
Los Angeles Museum of Art
Valentine Museum
Honolulu Academy of Art
Dayton Art Institute
Philadelphia Society of Etchers
Society of American Graphic Artists, 1924 (prize), 1928 (prize)
National Academy of Design, 1938, 1947
Ferargil Gallery, 1929
Milch Gallery, 1930
Art Institute of Chicago, 1942
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