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Thomas Hill

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Thomas Hill (1829 - 1908) was active/lived in California, Massachusetts.  Thomas Hill is known for Western landscape, national park painting.

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 Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite.  He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers.

Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter.  However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim.

During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of modernism.  In the latter half of the 20th century, his work was rediscovered, and he is now considered one of the major figures in American art.

He settled with his family in Taunton, Massachusetts and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16482 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Thomas Hill

   Publications  Book References:  131
Magazine References:  22

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22 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Thomas Hill
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review California Landscapes from the Willrich Collection December 2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Yes
American Art Review Legends of the West" The Foxley Collection December 2006 Joyner, J. Brooks Yes
American Art Review The Blanton Museum of Art, C.R. Smi December 2004 Saunders, Richard H Yes
Southwest Art Art Events-California September 2004 Gangelhoff, Bonnie No
Southwest Art News Beat-On the Scene July 2004 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art On the Scene March 2004 Osterman, J Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Grandeur in Nature: Landscape Paint June 2003 Stern, Jean Yes
American Art Review California: This Golden Land February 2002 Editors, American Art Review Yes
American Art Review Museum of the Southwest December 2001 Holeva, Daniel H Yes
The Magazine Antiques Luminist Paintings in California November 2001 Harrison, Alfred C. Jr. No
Art & Auction Marketplace February 2001 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
The Magazine Antiques A Vision for the West November 2000 Driesbach, Janice Yes
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
Art & Antiques The Stars Come Out September 2000 Rutberg, Mary Lou Yes
American Art Review San Diego in the Eye of the Artist December 1999 Atkinson, D Scott Yes
Southwest Art Proud Legacy: 150 Years of Western January 1999 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review Landscape in America 1850-1890 December 1997 Johns, Barbara Yes
The Magazine Antiques Yosemite in Nineteenth Century Prin November 1997 Ogden, Kate Nearpass Yes
American Art Review The Oil Sketches of Thomas Hill August 1997 Driesbach, Janice T Yes
Southwest Art California February 1997 Tennant, Donna Yes
Southwest Art Bottom Line March 1996 Brown, Margaret L Yes
American Art Review Early California Paintings June 1994 AR editors Yes
131 Book References for Thomas Hill
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2016 Bacharach, Joan (General Editor) Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service) 160 Yes
2015 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len John Fery: Artist of Glacier National Park & The American West 288 Yes
2009 Harris, Adam Duncan Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art 262 Yes
2006 Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
2006 Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2003 Stern, Jean; Roy C. Rose and Molly Siple Enchanted Isle: A History of Plein-Air Painting in Santa Catalina Island 256 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2002 Hassrick, Peter H Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park 248 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2000 Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward) Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art 200 Yes
2000 Fine Art Dealers Association Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
2000 Wilner, Eli et al The Gilded Edge 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Hjalmarson, Birgitta Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco 255 Yes
1999 Holmes, Genta Hawkins Art in the Residence of the American Ambassador, Australia 35 Yes
1999 Rehs, Howard (President) L.A. Art Show: Fine Art Dealer's Association
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1998 Gerdts, William; Will South California Impressionism 284 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Driesbach, Janet Direct from Nature: The Oil Sketches of Thomas Hill 126 Yes
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Stragnell, Robert Landscapes of the West
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1991 Chelette, Iona and Katherine Hough California Grandeur and Genre (Collections of James Coran and Walter Nelson-Rees) 107 Yes
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Santa Barbara Museum of Art America in Art Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Boehme, Sarah E Rendezvous to Roundup: The First 100 Years of Wyoming Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 49 Yes
1990 Editor, Sonoma County Museum Along the Russian River: An Artistic Interpretation
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Samuels, Peggy (others) Techniques of the Artists of the American West 252 Yes
1990 Vincent, Stephen et al O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes 272 Yes
1989 Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees If Pictures Could Talk Stories About California Paintings 382 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1989 Rockwell Museum American Western Art 84 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Saunders, Richard H Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 211 Yes
1988 Thrapp, Dan Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: Volume Two (G-0) 573 No
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Adams, Celeste Marie America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 130 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Stern, Jean; Morton Fleischer and Janet Dominik Masterworks of California Impressionism Morton H. Fleischer Collection 178 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1984 Wilson, William California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of 288 Yes
1983 Cunningham, Elizabeth Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection 152 Yes
1983 Foxley, William Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art 200 Yes
1983 Gibson, Dunn & Critcher A Century of California Landscapes 52 Yes
1983 Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen 418 Yes
1982 Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr Views of Yosemite The Last Stance of the Romantic Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 43 Yes
1982 Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher Legacy of the West 157 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 197 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939 292 Yes
1981 Stern, Jean Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition Petersen Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 Yes
1980 Arkelian, Marjorie/G W Neubert Thomas Hill/The Grand View 64 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Van Nostrand, Jeanne The First Hundred Years of Painting in California 1775-1875 135 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1977 Benjamin, S G W Our American Artists 1879 and 1881 (reprints in one volume) 145 No
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Spangenberg, Helen Yesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula 88 Yes
1975 Arkelian, Marjorie The Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia 64 Yes
1975 Ballinger, James K The American West Selections/Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 Museum of Texas Tech Univ Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1974 Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro) American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Curry, Larry The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1972 Taylor, Joshua National Parks and the American Landscape 141 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1969 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 74 Yes
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1947 Sears, Clara Endicott Hudson River Artists Highlights among the 280 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
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