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Morris Henry Hobbs
Riverboat "Capitol", New Orleans, 1938
1938

About the Item

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 at his country home in Mandeville, where he spent weekends photographing and sketching the plants. He was awarded first prize in 1953 by the Chicago Society of Etchers for his dry point entitled Vresia Splendens. During his career, Morris Hobbs was known to have created many Architectural drawings; he painted nudes, landscapes and still life works, and made wood carvings. He worked in oil, watercolor, and pencil, as well as, being a master etcher and engraver. Hobbs taught etching for many years and many of his students went on to become famous artists in their own right. He was a member of the New Orleans Art League (president emeritus), the Louisiana Society of Etchers, the Society of American Graphic Artist, the Society of American Etchers, the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Cleveland Print Makers, the Toledo Print Club, the National Arts Club, the Evanston Art Club, the Allied Illinois Society of Fine Art, the California Society of Etchers, the Southern Printmakers, the Northwest Printmakers, the Southern States Art League, the Boston Society of Independent Artists, the Mississippi Art Association, the MacDowell Art Colony, and the North Shore Art League. Hobbs exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Evanston Art Club 1930 (prize), the Toledo Museum of Art 1930 (prize), 1931 (prize), 1936 (prize), the Southern States Art League (1941 (prize), and the Louisiana State Museum Memorial Exhibition 1986. His work is represented in many public and private collections, including, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, the New York Public Library, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Mobile Museum of Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Morris Henry Hobbs died at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, after a brief illness, on January 24, 1967. Sources: Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who In American Art The Smithsonian Archives Social Security Death Index Times-Picayune Obituary, Jan. 25,1957-New Orleans Historic New Orleans Collection, File

Creator:
Morris Henry Hobbs (American)
Creation Year:
1938
Dimensions:
Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
Medium:
Graphite
Movement & Style:
Realist
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New Orleans, LA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU99435012652

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