Morris Henry Hobbs Art

Morris Henry Hobbs (1892 - 1967) Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans Graphite on Paper, Float-Matted 9.5" x 13.5 " $1500 An original pencil sketch ...

Morris Henry Hobbs (1892 - 1967) Riverboat "Capitol", New Orleans Graphite on Paper, Float-Matted 9.5" x 13.5 " $1500 A very famous New Orleans artist, with TWO solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian and having work in a host of museums among many other honors, Morris Henry Hobbs created this sketch on his very first sketching trip to the Crescent City, in 1938. His prints are valuable, but obviously the originals MUCH more so (and harder to find, naturally). Can't get much more iconic than a riverboat in New Orleans, and by a famous New Orleans artist at that. Any New Orleans fans out there who also collect art? Comes expensively floated in a triple-mat, ready to frame as you wish. Biography from The Artisfun Gallery: Morris Henry Hobbs, etcher, engraver, painter, illustrator, woodcarver and teacher was born on January 1, 1892 in Rockford, Illinois. He studied drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Ernest Dean, Clarissa Keith, and Ralph Fletcher Seymour, primarily illustrators. He later branched off into the study of architecture, and was identified with that profession for many years. In 1921, several years after his return from overseas service with the American Expeditionary Force at which time he lost his hearing, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and practiced architecture. He traveled throughout Europe, including, England, Belgium and France to draw, paint, and study etching. One of his small prints was accepted for an exhibition by the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and his work began to appear here and there in exhibitions. This was in 1926 and 1927, when his first etchings and dry points were made. In 1930, after he returned to Europe to work and study, he made a series of plates of England, France and Brittany. Early in his career he had the rare distinction of having two one-man exhibitions of his works at the Smithsonian Institution. Later, Hobbs was drawn to New Orleans in 1938 with plans for creating a series of small prints of the French Quarter and many of the historic buildings scattered thoughout the old section of New Orleans. He lived there for the remainder of his life. He formed the Society of Louisiana Etchers and was it's first president. Two summers were spent as a resident colonist at the McDowell Art Colony, Peterborough, N.H., where he started a series of etchings of the old Beacon Hill district of Boston. By 1950, Hobbs has become acquainted with the tropical plant family known as Bromeliaceae and had built a small greenhouse...

In this etching, Morris Henry Hobbs captures the vitality of street life on Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter. Morris Henry Hobbs, etcher,...

In this etching, Morris Henry Hobbs captures a lone figure in a traditional New Orleans French Quarter Courtyard. Morris Henry Hobbs, etch...

"Village Depot" is Morris Henry Hobbs' most famous image issued in an edition of just 50. It is illustrated in Albert Reese's "Prize Prints of the 20th Century" and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress. A small depot serves this small Illinois community as a travel center and is decorated with military recruitment posters for WW II. Hobbs was born on January 1, 1892, in Rockford, Illinois. As the son of a watchmaker, Hobbs inherited his father George’s natural dexterity. He apprenticed in the family’s watch shop in Rockford where the elder Hobbs delighted in his only child’s meticulous craftsmanship. At the turn of the century, the family moved to Chicago, where Morris pursued an education in architecture, studying with private tutors and at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Despite his father’s objections, he took evening drawing classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hobbs worked in the architectural field until World War I intervened. In 1918 he enlisted in the American Expeditionary Forces; while abroad, he was stricken by the flu epidemic rampant in Europe at the time. The disease irreparably damaged his hearing and left him virtually deaf. Hobbs, who was only in his late twenties, would become proficient in reading lips and thereafter wore hearing devices. After his military discharge, Hobbs joined Frank Chase...

MORRIS HENRY HOBBS (1892 - 1967) A ROYAL ST. PATIO, NEW OREANS, 1938 Etching, signed and titled in pencil. No.72/110. Image 12 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches, sheet 15 x 10 3/4 inches. New Orle...