JARDINES Y ENSUEÑOS

Christa Zaat

George Hitchcock (American painter) 1850 - 1913
Blossom Time, s.d.
oil on canvas
30.8 x 43.5 cm. (12.13 x 17.13 in.)
private collection

Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris. He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, where he also started to host to a small artists' colony. He became a chévalier of the French Legion of Honour; a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the Dresden gallery; the imperial collection in Vienna; the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the time of his death, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.


George Hitchcock (American painter) 1850 - 1913
Holland, Hyacinth Garden, s.d.
oil on canvas
43.18 x 55.25 cm. (17 x 21.75 in.)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, United States of America

Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris. He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, where he also started to host to a small artists' colony. He became a chévalier of the French Legion of Honour; a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the Dresden gallery; the imperial collection in Vienna; the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the time of his death, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.