Biografie von Hobson Lafayette PITTMAN (1899-1972)

Birth place: Tarboro, NC

Death place: Bryn Mawr or Upper Darby, PA

Addresses: Phila.; Manoa section of Upper Darby; Bryn Mawr, PA

Profession: Painter, printmaker, lecturer, critic, teacher

Studied: Rouse Art Sch., Tarboro, NC; Cl; Penn. State College; Columbia Univ.; Woodstock Art Sch., summers, 1920s; Europe, 1928; E. Walters; A. Heckman; D. Rosenthal.

Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1929-30, 1934; S. Indp. A., 1929-31; PAFA Ann., 1929-68 (1943 prize; 1960 faculty exhib., solo); WMAA biennials, 1933-46; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1935-67 (12 times, incl. 4th prize, 1947, and silver med., 1953); VMFA, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946; AIC; WMA; Phila. WCC, annually; Cl, annually from 1940, 1949 (prize); CMA; CPLH, 1947 (prize); Herron AI; Santa Barbara MA; MoMA; GGE, 1939; Butler AI, 1950 (prize), 1955 (prize & purchase); NAD, 1953 (gold med.), 1959-61; McNay AI, 1959-61; Columbia Univ., 1960 (Brevoort prize); North Carolina MA (retrospective), 1963; Paris; London; Venice; Cairo, and other European art centers; Guggenheim fellow, 1955.

Member: Woodstock AA; Audubon Artists; NA; Phila. WCC; F.I.A.L.; Int. Platform of Lecturers; Phila. Artists All.; AEA.

Work: MMA; PAFA; WMAA; BM; PMG; VMFA; Nebraska AA; John Herron AI; Butler AI; CMA; CI; Brooks Mem. Art Gal.; AGAA; Florence (SC) Mus. Art; PMA; NIAL; Cranbrook Acad. Art; PMA; Herron AI; Santa Barbara Mus. Art; Wilmington Soc. FA; IBM; Penn. State Univ.; Encyclopedia Britannica; TMA; Montclair Art Mus.; Abbott Laboratories.

Comments: During the 1930s his mature stye began to emerge in his impressionistic domestic interiors, and through the 1950s he painted numerous still lifes and floral pieces. His late style included dreamlike passages. Pittman was also a printmaker; he started making linoleum cuts and woodcuts in 1930 (producing about 50 blocks) and in 1931 began etching (eventually making about 20 etchings). Lectures: American Painting Today," "Portrait and Figure Painting Today;" "International Contemporary Painting;" "The Artist's Vision;" "Influences in Art;" "Chardin and Picasso;" and many others given 1956-65, at PAFA, Univ. Virginia, Mary Washington Col., Univ. Richmond, Randolph-Macon Col., PMA, and William & Mary Col. Teaching: Friends' Sch., Overbrook, PA; PAFA; PMA; Penn. State Univ. Illustrator: Fortune.

Sources: WW66 cites 1900 birth date but WW47 cites 1899; Baigell, Dictionary; Hobson Pittman: Retrospective Exhibition from 1920 (exh. cat., North Carolina Mus., 1963); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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