Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
American, 1886-1972
Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Aldro Hibbard was an Impressionist landscape painter much concerned with light and shadow. He was one of the founders of the Rockport Art Colony, and the Rockport Art Association now occupies his former studio. Hibbard grew up in Dorchester and Boston and spent much time in the summers in Boston and Cape Cod. He showed early artistic talent, an interest he shared with a life-long love of baseball, which led to his becoming a professional baseball player.
For his art training, he graduated from the Massachusetts Normal School and studied at the Boston Museum School with Edmund Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, and Frank Benson. In Boston from 1927 to 1929, he occupied Fenway Studios.
Hibbard won the Paige Traveling Scholarship to study abroad, though his travels were cut short by War Word I , and he returned to America in 1914. In the early 1920s, he became a summer resident of Cape Ann and wintered in Jamaica, Vermont in the West River Valley. There he painted many rural snowscenes including oxen pulling wagons, covered bridges, and sugar houses . Much of his large body of work, concerned with light and shadow, depicts Vermont landscape, New England coastlines, and the Canadian Rockies. From 1915, he was also an instructor in the Art Department of Boston University.to
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Artist: Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Rockport Artist Winter Landscape Painting Sunlight Glow Vermont
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Rockport, MA
This painting by Aldro T. Hibbard depicts a serene winter scene in Vermont, featuring his own home. The snow-covered landscape is soft, muted tones, with gentle light illuminating th...
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20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Oil
Winter Solitude / Winter Wonderland
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional woodland winter landscape with a blanket of fresh fallen snow by well known American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA, stud...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Winter Landscape with Houses, Jamaica, VT
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist winter landscape with houses in Jamaica, Vermont by well known American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA, studied at ...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Aldro T. Hibbard, "March Mood" Vermont Winter Landscape Painting
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Rockport, MA
A wonderful example of a winter scene by the Cape Ann Master: Aldro T. Hibbard. This painting has beautiful color, expressive brushwork and a great design. It has recently been cle...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Oil
$7,600 Sale Price
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Winter Landscape
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Aldro Thompson Hibbard, a master of New England impressionism, was renowned for his evocative winter landscapes. His paintings often capture the serene beauty of...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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American Artist Aldro T. Hibbard Landscape Painting Monhegan Island Maine Scene
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Rockport, MA
Aldro T. Hibbard's "Monhegan Light" beautifully captures the charm of Monhegan Island, with its iconic lighthouse set against rolling hills and vibrant, natural colors. Hibbard studi...
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20th Century Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Spring - Pocasset MA
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New England Cape Cod landscape by American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA, studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and at the Boston Museum School with artists such as Edmond Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, Joseph R. DeCamp, and later became one of the founders of the Rockport Art Colony, living on Cape Ann in Massachusetts and summering in Jamaica...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Oil Landscape of Cape Cod Massachusetts
By Aldro Thompson Hibbard
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This is a beautiful Cape Cod Massachusetts spring landscape with a rural farm and water behind it was painted by American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, Vermont and later became one of the founders of the Rockport Art Colony, living on Cape Ann in Massachusetts and summering in Jamaica, Vermont. Trained at the Boston Museum School, Hibbard carried forth the tenets of traditional academic art into the 20th century. He became very well-known for his New England...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Aldro Thompson Hibbard Landscape Paintings
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Vermont Farm in Winter, Aldro Hibbard, New England Impressionist Snow Landscape
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Vermont Farm in Winter
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed lower left
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Private Collection, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Shannon's, Fine Art Auction, September 17, 2020, Lot 198
A product of two Capes, born on Cape Cod and matured as an artist on Cape Ann, Aldro Hibbard became the spiritual center of this artists’ community. Hibbard was the consummate outdoorsman, capturing the deep frigid snows of Vermont or maintaining a .300-plus batting average in the North Shore baseball leagues. Like George Bellows, Hibbard had to choose between professional baseball and art.
He attended the school at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was instructed by Frank Weston Benson, Phillip Leslie Hale and Edmund Charles Tarbell, who were instructors in the new school of American Impressionism at that time. Hibbard rejected the confines of his studio, despite the observation by his teacher Joseph DeCamp, the great impressionist Boston School portrait painter, that the young student made figure painting “look too easy.” In later years, writers referred to Hibbard as “the dean of the Frozen River School” and the artist soon to replace Gardner Symons and Edward Redfield as the leading interpreter of winter.
He traveled to Europe in 1914 and was friendly with the great Joachim Sorolla in Spain, where they agreed that outdoor painting was where real painting occurred (the studio was “good for smoking in”).
Hibbard had long been interested in snow-covered landscapes, submitting one of his earliest, February Thaw, to the National Academy. He acknowledged a debt to the winter landscapes of Willard Metcalf, specifically the technique of creating a veil of delicately-toned colors, one placed next to another, to describe light and shadow on snow. In his early canvases, Hibbard practiced a similar technique that produced a delicate pointillist feeling, which he called “broken color.” Equally important was Metcalf’s practice of painting outside in the middle of winter; Hibbard’s snow scenes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains painted during his honeymoon in 1925, as well as his Vermont scenes, attest to his love for painting in harsh conditions. Hibbard often trekked many hours before finding his ideal subject matter under the right conditions.
By the 1930s, Hibbard spent winter months in Vermont, and the rest of the year in Rockport, where he established the Rockport Summer School of Drawing and Painting and grew to become a legendary member of the North Shore artist colony and even the Rockport baseball team. Each spring, Hibbard was responsible for choosing the exact shade of red that the town would paint the fishing shack commonly referred to as Motif #1. A leader in this community, he was also active in nearby Boston, and in 1965 the Guild of Boston Artists, where Hibbard had exhibited for 45 years, mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work. About the exhibition, R. H. Ives Gammell (a leading teacher of the Boston School of painters) commented: “Paintings by Aldro T. Hibbard recall the artistic standards for which the Boston painters were nationally known throughout the first quarter of our century. The exhibition...includes many of the artist’s finest landscapes which are of a quality no painter now living, here or abroad, could remotely approach.”
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Located in Milford, NH
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