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Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes (1932 - 1992) was active/lived in California, Arizona.  Bill Hughes is known for Landscape, western genre.

A life in art is something Bill Hughes felt drawn to from the very beginning. "It was something I knew all along. I knew I was going to do art." A native of Ohio, Hughes attended the University of Cincinnati for a year and a half, "Just to squelch any ideas I had of making football a career."

Hughes moved to Los Angeles, California from Cleveland in 1960 and lived there for nine years, working as art director of "Motor Trend" magazine before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Suddenly, I ended up with circumstances that were quite beneficial [to an art career]. It doesn't matter when you start." Hughes finally ended up in an art colony on the east side of Scottsdale, Arizona, where he lived with his wife, Bernadette, for the rest of his life.

Hughes painted by using what he called "actualism," describing it as a technique designed to draw the viewer into the scene so that they could imagine themselves moving through the landscape. Interested in bu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2405 characters.]  Artist bio

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