Homer Hill Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, Illustrator

Homer Hill was born in 1917 in Newark, New Jersey, and died in 1968 in Livingston, New Jersey. Hill is known as an illustrator, commercial artist, designer, and painter. He spent most of his career in New York City and attended Parsons School of Design in New York. Homer Hill is listed in the 1966 edition of Who’s Who is American Art from the American Federation of Arts, Edited by Dorothy B. Gilbert and published by R.R. Bowker Company, New York & London, 1966. The listing explains that his work is held at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ. Hill worked as an advertising artist for Shell Oil Company, National City Bank, Royal Canadian Academy-Victor, Seagram, and others. Homer was a traveling artist for the U.S. Air Force. His has artwork in the U.S. Air Force Documentary Art Collection. Homer Hill accepted the Agnes B. Noyes award in 1953, Kresge award, and special recognition from the New Jersey Watercolor Society. Homer Hill was well known as a member of the Society of illustrators, an organization that continues to be prestigious today. He had a one-man show there in 1965, and exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum, the Riverside Museum and Highgate Gallery. Among Homer Hill's many clients were included Good Housekeeping, Today’s Living, Sports Afield, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s, Herald Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Crossroads Magazine, The Christian Herald, and other national magazines. Homer Hill was also responsible for designing the Minnesota Statehood Stamp for the U.S. Government.