A man with strong academic art training, Harry Hoffman was judged by his peers to have done best with his landscapes when he painted what he saw and set aside the theories. He studied in Paris, worked at Yale University with John Ferguson Weir, and was a student at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond. But Willard Metcalf had the strongest influence, encouraging Hoffman to paint in the style of impressionism.
In 1902, Hoffman went to Old Lyme, Connecticut, and stayed at the Florence (showing 500 of 3221 characters). |
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Old Lyme Colony Painters
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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