Aldro Thompson Hibbard Signed American Winterscape Oil on Board
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A signed Aldro Thompson Hibbard (American 1886 – 1972) winter landscape painting. Fine oil on canvas presenting a beautifully rendered, crisp, snowy Vermont winter scene. Featuring a rushing, icy brook through bare winter woods. Soft brown woods are punctuated by the viridian green of evergreens and the brittle white bark of birch trees. Signed ‘A.T. Hibbard’ to the lower left in red paint, and presented in a silver gilt wooden frame.
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.
Reidel, Catherine, ‘Landscape Paintings from A. T. Hibbard | Antiques & Collectibles’ Yankee Magazine January 2012
Smithsonian Collections, ‘Aldro T. Hibbard’
Davies, Thomas ‘A. T. Hibbard, N.A.’ Resource Library Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc, , January, 2004
‘Aldro Thompson Hibbard’ MME Fine Art
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15WDC035-076
Additional Information
Aldro T. Hibbard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Aldro T. Hibbard at the Smithsonian, Aldro T. Hibbard Article in Yankee Magazine
