April 17, 2024
Lucille Hobbie Painting In Original Frame
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Lucille Hobbie Painting 9" x 11" visible and In the Original Frame. The backing of the picture has a stamped address: The Fine Art Center, 10 DeHart Street, Morristown, New Jersey. The matting is faded. The frame is 17" high by 19" wide. Lucille Hobbie (1915- 2008) A painter, printmaker, watercolorist, and lithographer, Lucille Hobbie was also a teacher, administrator, and winner of the Arts Council’s Outstanding Professional in the Arts Award (2002). Hobbie was known to have said, "I hope someday I'll become the painter I'd like to be.” Born in Boonton in 1915, she knew from the first she wanted to be an artist. As she explained, “I saw so much and wanted so badly for everyone else to see it.” After her mother's death, she moved to New York, where her work was soon recognized. The self-taught artist had many one-woman shows at the prestigious Morton and 8th Street galleries. Early supporters included the New York Times art editor; before long she was exhibiting throughout the East Coast. With her painter husband Albert Heimrod, she moved to Newark, where they ran the Newark Art Club, and then returned to Morris County, settling in Mendham. They worked for 10 years with the Newark Board of Educa-tion's Saturday Children's Art School; she was simultaneously a teacher and administrator for the Newark School of Fine and Industrial
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