Dragon Dance

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John W. Hatch
Dragon Dance
1947

About the Item

JOHN W. HATCH "DRAGON DANCE" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AMERICAN, DATED 1947 40 X 60 INCHES John Woodsum Hatch 1919-1998 This is a combination of seveal biographies. During his fifty-year career as an artist, John Woodsum Hatch explored the people, the landscape, and the seascape around him. From his extensive travels to his years in New Hampshire, he developed a body of work that captures a sense of place. Through watercolor, ink and sand, he depicted the grandeur of the White Mountains. The crisp light and distinct topography of the Isles of Shoals and Great Bay Estuary are precisely and clearly documented in acrylic and tempera paintings. His ability to convey the sheer scale and longevity of the mountains and sea, and by comparison the fleeting nature of human life, conveys in a not-so-subtle way that the natural environment is to be revered and preserved. Hatch took his first teaching job at the University of New Hampshire in1949, the same year he graduated from Yale University. He never left. A former student, Sam Cady, described his contributions: “He was a wonderful mix of jokester and sage. A teacher who obviously loved people, loved teaching, and had a great gift for it.” After retiring in 1985, he was made an honorary Professor Emeritus at UNH. Hatch contributed to New Hampshire's cultural life in three areas: his teaching, his art, and his community service. His effectiveness in these three areas can be traced his commitment to give something of himself to help others. Many artists teach by necessity and resent it as a drain on their creative energies but Hatch found his greatest fulfillment from a combination of teaching, making art, and being deeply involved with his community as an art historian and as an environmentalist. Hatch’s work can be seen in numerous public collections, including: the Addison Gallery of American Art; DeCordova Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; State of New Hampshire's Living Treasures Collection, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. John Woodsum Hatch, New Hampshire's 1997 Living Treasure Award recipient, died on August 6,1998, at the age of 78. Hatch was a draftsman, an artist and a muralist. His works can be found in public and private collections throughout the region. He exhibited at the New Hampshire Art Association; the Currier Gallery of Art (1949-1965); the United States Information Agency in Russia (1961); the De Cordova & Dana Museum (1962, 1964); and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1967-1969). Hatch’s work appears in the collections of the Phillips Exeter Academy; Portland Museum of Art; Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Mass.); Currier Gallery of Art (Manchester, N.H.); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; and the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Mr. Hatch was deeply involved with his community, as an art historian and an environmentalist. Mass. College Art; School Fine Arts, Yale Univ. (B.F.A. & M.F.A.) Exhibited: New Hampshire AA, Currier Gal. Art, 1949-65; U.S. Info Agency Exhib., Russia, 1961; Centennial Exhib. of Land Grant Colleges, Kansas City, MO, 1962; De Cordova & Dana Mus., 1962 & 1964; BMFA, 1967-69. Awards: City of Manchester, NH, Award, 1964; New Hampshire AA, 1964; Portland Mus. Art Festivals Member: New Hampshire AA (pres., 1958-60); Am. Assn. Univ. Prof.; Boston WCS Work: De Cordova & Dana Mus., Lincoln, MA; Phillips Exeter Acad.; Portland MA; Addison Gallery Am. Art, Andover, MA; PAFA. Commissions: murals, Army Map Service Bldg., Wash., DC, Am. Red Cross, Melbourne, Australia & Kingsbury Hall, Univ. New Hampshire; mem. window, Student Union, Univ. New Hampshire; hist. mural, The Ledges, Durham, NH

Creator:
John W. Hatch (1919 - 1998, American)
Creation Year:
1947
Medium:
Canvas,Offset
Movement & Style:
Cubist
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU391290003