Artist

Charles Louis Hinton

born Ithaca, NY 1869-died Bronxville, NY 1950
Also known as
  • C. L. Hinton
  • Charles L. Hinton
  • Charles Hinton
Born
Ithaca, New York, United States
Died
Bronxville, New York, United States
Biography

Charles Louis Hinton was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1869. He grew up in England, but moved back to America to study at the National Academy of Design in New York. Hinton won a traveling scholarship to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. Hinton worked in other media as well, including painting, watercolor, book illustration, and mural decoration. He was an instructor in 1901 at the National Academy of Design’s School of Fine Arts, where he was promoted to dean in 1940.

Works by this artist (3 items)

Roger Brown, World's Tallest Disaster, 1972, oil and magma on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1974.91
World’s Tallest Disaster
Artist
Date1972
oil and magma on canvas
On view
Roger Brown, Natural Bridge, 1971, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the S. W. and B. M. Koffler Foundation, 1979.53.5
Natural Bridge
Artist
Date1971
oil on canvas
Not on view
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Talk Show Addicts, from the portfolio A.G.B. 1 + 10
Artist
Date1993
etching and aquatint on paper
Not on view