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Exhibition catalog featuring the work of Hobson Pittman.
Transcript of Hobson Pittman Catalog
BARTON ART GALLERIES
HOBSON PITTMANAt Home & Work
Biography By Buddy hooks
director, Blount-Bridgers house MuseuM
hoBson pittMan MeMorial gallery
catalog designed By gérard lange
BARTON ART GALLERIESBox 5000, Wilson, nC 27893252.399.6477
Sofa Restoration181/2” x 121/2”
At Home & WorkHobson Pittman (1899-1972) was born in Edgecombe County. He attended school near his home in the small community of Epworth, later graduating from Tarboro High School. He left Edgecombe County at the age of eighteen, moved permanently to Pennsylvania and studied art at Pennsylvania State College, Columbia University, Carnegie Institute of Technology and in Europe.
Although, he never lived in Edgecombe County again, Hobson Pittman took the memories of his home-place with him. Among his best-known works are his paintings of the spacious Victorian rooms and southern gardens which he remembered from his youth. Many of these works, along with his delicate and subtle flowers and fruit arrangements, are on display at well-known galleries such as the Corcoran gallery and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York City, the Philadelphia Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Through the generosity of his niece, Alyce Weeks Gordon, Tarboro now has the opportunity to recognize one of North Carolina’s most talented and nationally prominent native sons. Mrs. Gordon is donating to the Town of Tarboro numerous works by her uncle, along with many of his personal effects and furniture from the Victorian period he loved.
Hobson Pittman won acclaim throughout the United States for his oils, pastes and watercolors. He was also considered one of the best art instructors in the nation and was sought by numerous colleges, universities and art organizations to lecture and teach. It is Mrs. Gordon’s wish that his work continue to be used to instruct young artists; therefore, a teaching gallery is envisioned where art students of
The Return17” x 20”
all ages will be welcomed. It is hoped that the gallery will qualify as an Affiliate Gallery of the North Carolina Museum of Art, thus providing local access to State art resources.
Hobson Pittman is best known for his oil paintings of romantic, nostalgic interiors of rather intimidating buildings. He developed this style and subject matter in the late 1920’s and pursued it with success until the late 1950’s. At the same time he was producing hauntingly beautiful pastels in the same theme. However, he entered the gallery scene, won prizes and critical acclaim in the 1920’s and 1930’s with his floral still life paintings, darkly rich canvases that partly owed inspiration to Henry McFee, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fernand Lèger and the German Expressionists.
From the late 1950’s until the end of his life, Pittman used a riotous palette of colors, so well suited to the exultant compositions we encounter in this exhibit. The blue-greys, fawns and taupes, the muted greens and wines, all gave way to tangerine, watermelon, turquoise, hot gold and throbbing chartreuse. His subject matter changed to abstract gardens, music rooms and pools of floating poppies that vibrated with color. And flowers, fruit and interesting containers.
Summer Moon12” x 14”
Study of Pedestal10” x 81/2”
Study of Pedestal10” x 81/2”
Rocker in Bay Window23” x 17”
Window No. 123” x 17”
Rocker in Bay Window23” x 17”
Window No. 123” x 17”
Untitled17” x 23”
Meredith House
22” x 16”
Meredith House
22” x 16”
Self Portrait18” x 14”
View from Porch16” x 20”
Self Portrait18” x 14”
View from Porch16” x 20”
Birth of Spring52” x 371/2”
“Hobson Pittman is the poet-pianter of the empty room.His profoundly felt and hauntingly brushed interiors – lighted from without by moon or sun and from within by lamp and moon as conspiring protagonists – vibrate with news of the presence that is withheld.”
Contemporary American Painting 1945
Dried Peaches12” x 9”
Dried Peaches12” x 9”
Blount Bridgers House
22” x 32”
Blount Bridgers House
22” x 32”
Peaches with Sugar Dish19” x 12”
Mrs. Allison141/2” x 83/4”
“He communicates with the power of a sensitive anddisciplined brush, images, that, to begin with, had manifestly stirred the heart of the painter himself.”
New York Times
House in the Country9” x 4”
Sketch for Green Interior8” x 101/2”
Library9” x 6”
Pencil Interior111/2” x 83/4”
Sketch for Curfew8” x 101/4”
Interior Sketch9” x 5”
Studio in Barn11” x 8”
Lovers91/2” x 71/2”
Sketch for 9 p.m.18” x 12”
“If I have made any contributions to painting, I firmly attribute it to a concentrated study of the masters. I try very hard not to be biased in my opinions or in my appreciation, but to be tolerant of all types and periods of good painting.”
Hobson Pittman
Studio Arrangement40” x 30”
Enigmatic24” x 20”
Studio Arrangement40” x 30”
Enigmatic24” x 20”
Table with Lilies6” x 4”
Three Rooms81/2” x 111/2”
Building and Trees12” x 9”
House and Telephone Poles
12” x 9”
Building and Trees12” x 9”
House and Telephone Poles
12” x 9”
Woodstock81/2” x 61/2”
Snow-covered Buildings91/2” x 71/2”
Woodstock81/2” x 61/2”
Snow-covered Buildings91/2” x 71/2”
Heavy Furnace241/2” x 181/2”
Heavy Furnace241/2” x 181/2”
Church in Europe241/2” x 20”
Electric Car281/4” x 181/4”
Philadelphia Red Brick House241/2” x 201/2”
Street in Florence17” x 21”
G. C. Layman Country Store20” x 241/2”
Street in Florence17” x 21”
Studio Arrangement24” x 22”
Hobson Pittman’s easel, shirt and painting hat.
director of exhiBitions
Gérard Lange
gallery assistant
Bonnie LoSchiavo
gallery interns
Bobby BuffaloeMichelle PerezBen Yansom
staff
Hanna CannonAlyssa DamrothBriana FrazierCherise SantorielloJasmine Tinsley
“I have always been interested in painting things of the past, things I have loved and still do. Things I feel and understand.”
Hobson Pittman
Self Portrait Sketch31/2” x 41/2”
The Barton Art Galleries are located in the Case Art Building, near the intersection of Whitehead Avenue and Gold Street, on the
campus of Barton College.
BARTON ART GALLERIESBox 5000, Wilson, nC 27893
252.399.6477
Hobson PittmanAt Home & Work
Lula E. Rackley Gallery
Exhibition DatesSeptember 27 – October 30
Opening ReceptionSeptember 27, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Lecture on Hobson Pittman by J. Chris Wilson
October 2, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
