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Lot 193: Hill, George Snow (American, 1898-1969) Paris - Oil Painting La Fontane Du Medici au Jardine Ju Luxembourg

Est: $300 USD - $400 USDSold:
Myers Fine ArtSt. Petersburg, FL, USMarch 13, 2016

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Hill, George Snow (American, 1898-1969) Oil Painting. "La Fontane Du Medici au Jardine Ju Luxembourg." Oil on wood. Signed lower right. In good condition, old varnish should be removed and the painting would likely clean up nicely . Measures 8 inches x 10 inches. Frame measures 12 inches x 14 inches.

From From Askart: George Snow Hill (1898-1969) was a painter and sculptor in the United States. He is best known as a muralist. He lived in St. Petersburg, Florida until his death in 1969. He founded the Hill School of Art in St. Petersburg in 1946. Hill was born in Munising, Michigan in 1898.He studied naval engineering and architecture at Lehigh University from 1917 until 1918, before graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1923 from Syracuse University where met his wife Polly Knipp Hill. They studied in Paris together in the 1920s and were married there. She did etchings. He went to Paris on a fellowship at the Acad?mie Colarossi and the Acad?mie de la Grande Chaumi?re, and had a studio in the city. His work was shown at the Salon des Artistes Francaise from 1923 until 1929, and he had a one-man exhibition at Simonson Galleries in Paris in 1924. In 1924, he also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Hill returned to the United States in 1929, and worked as a portraitist in New York City before establishing a studio in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1932. His works include the mural Long Staple Cotton in the Madison, Florida post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1937. He signed his paintings G.S. Hill Hill's style has been compared to that of Thomas Hart Benton, who was New Deal muralist as well as John Stuart Curry and Grant Wood. Hill's figures, like those in the Mannerist style, are elongated. His scenes include action. Some of his work was done for the Works Progress Administration. A commission for work in a Clearwater, Florida courtroom was stopped by Judge John U. Bird in 1934 because he did not want "pictures of sunbathers with brassiere-type bathing suits hanging over my bench." Another of his murals was torn down in 1966 by activist Joseph Waller because the mural of white sunbathers and black entertainers on the beach "depicts Negroes in a most despicable, derogatory manner." Further objections arose in 1998 over a bare breast in a mural at the Coast Guard station in St. Pete. Hill's painting at the Madison Post Office was also controversial when a postmaster raised concerns over the depiction of all-white supervisors and black workers alongside white workers. Hill produced five murals for the Pinellas County Courthouse in Clearwater, Florida depicting county history. Hung in the Clearwater City Auditorium, they became lost after the building was razed in the 1960s.He did two St. Petersburg scenes of the pier and a picnic for City Hall. African-American community leaders later objected to the depictions of black musicians in Picnicking at Pass-a-Grille. After it was torn down, the painting was lost after the vandal's trial. He also painted a mural in the St. Petersburg Coast Guard building's wardroom depicting the service's history. A 1933 Chicago World's Fair painting moved to the Florida State Capitol was also lost, as well as murals for post offices in Florida and Alabama. Murals at Tampa's Peter O. Knight Airport were damaged when they were removed pending the airport's demolition. His aeronautical paintings included one showing Tony Jannus' famous flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa. Several of the murals have been restored and are on display at the Tampa International Airport. George Snow Hill was married to Polly Knipp Hill, with whom he had a son named George Jr. His wife died in 1989.

By LENNIE BENNETT ? St. Petersburg Times published October 13, 2002 After more than a year's work and at a cost of $300,000, works by St. Petersburg artist George Snow Hill are on display at Tampa International Airport. TAMPA -- Art is not always created through patronage, but that is the onl

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