biografía de Polly Knip HILL (1900-1990)

Lugar de nacimiento: Ithaca, NY

Lugar de defunción: St. Petersburg, FL?

Direcciones: St. Petersburg, FL

Profesión: Etcher, painter, lithographer, illustrator

Estudios: Univ. Illinois; Acad. Colarossi, Paris; also painting with George Snow Hill, Univ. Illinois; Jeannette Scott; Carl Hawley; Syracuse Univ.; G. Hess.

Exposiciones: NAD, 1927, 1929, 1935, 1940, 1943 (purchase prize),1944, 1946; SAE, 1929 (prize), 1930-44, 1947 (purchase prize); Brooklyn SE, 1930 (Nathan I. Bijur Award); Phila. Print Club, 1930-41, 1942 (purchase prize); Feragil Gal., 1927 (solo), 1930 (solo); Florida Fed. Art, 1932 (prize), 1933 (prize), 1944 (prize); SSAL, 1943 (prize); Gulf Coast Group, 1945, 1946 (prize); Chicago Soc. Etchers; Clearwater Mus.; St. Petersburg AC; Smithsonian Inst., 1937 (solo); Hanna Gal., Detroit; Newhouse Gal.; Syracuse Mus. FA; Speed Mem. Mus.; Brooks Mem. Art Gal.; Dayton AI; Holman Print Shop, Boston; R.&R. Robinson Galleries, Naples, FL, 1970s.

Asociaciones: Soc. Am. Graphic Artists; Phila. SE; St. Petersburg AC; Florida Fed. Art; Southern PM Soc.; Northwest Print Makers; Gulf Coast Group; SSAL; Chicago SE; Ringling Mus. Art.

Obra: Syracuse Mus. Fine Arts, NY; MMA; LOC; Speed Mem. Mus.; NYPL. Commissions: gift print for Printmakers Soc. Calif., 1962.

Comentarios: Contemporary Galleries, St. Petersburg, FL. Teaching: instr., George S. Hill Studios, 1940-50. Married to artist George Hill. Publications: illus., Woodpile Poems," 1936 (B.S. Foley); "Bible Chillun," 1939; "Dark Windows," 1942; "Rainbow Through the Web," 1944.

Fuentes: WW73; Fine Prints of the Year (1930, 1932 & 1933); Contemporary American Prints, (1931); A. Reese, Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century (1949)."