TULIPANES | Christa Zaat

Christa Zaat



George Hitchcock (American painter) 1850 - 1913
Early Spring in Holland, ca. 1890 - 1905
oil on canvas
35 ? x 51 ¼ inches
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Museum purchase, 1908

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.