Aldro Hibbard Oil Painting "Shanty Town"
Item Details
Aldro Hibbard (American; 1886-1972)
Shanty Town, mid 20th century
Oil painting on board
Signed to the lower left
Inscribed to the verso
Listed artist, Aldro Thompson Hibbard is a well regarded American plein air painter. He was born in Falmouth, MA, in 1886 but lived mainly in Rockport, MA. His iconic depictions of snowy New England landscapes, mainly of Vermont, are treasured by many.
Hibbard’s formal art career began at Boston’s Massachusetts Normal Art School under Joseph DeCamp. He was an incredible student and his teachers emboldened him to continue his art studies. Afterwards he entered the Boston Museum School of Art, where he studied under two of the most prominent teachers of the early 20th century—Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson. During this tenure, Hibbard was awarded the Paige Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. Hibbard was the only American honored with this with this esteemed prize and traveled through France, England, Italy, Spain and Morocco, but sadly his travels were severed by the beginning of World War I.
After the war Hibbard returned home to the United States and settled in Massachusetts. A lover of the Impressionists, Hibbard painted en plein air, and oftentimes braved the winter elements to capture the effects of light outdoors. He says: “Monet made sense. I like his color separation and the effects he got with it, especially in handling light, and I decided that broken color was for me. Their paintings were luminous, like Nature, and that appealed to me.”
Aldro T. Hibbard’s works hang in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; The IBM Collection and many other important private and public institutions.
Condition
- wear to edges of frame; dust and accretions present to painting and frame; surface wear present to painting; toning to varnish.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 13.5" W x 10.5" H.
Item #
ITMG423243
