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Occupation
  
Painter


Name
  
Anna Hills

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Full Name
  
Anna Althea Hills

Born
  
January 28, 1882 (
1882-01-28
)

Known for
  
Impressionist landscapesFounding of the Laguna Beach Art Museum

Died
  
June 13, 1930, Laguna Beach, California, United States

Education
  
Olivet College, Cooper Union, Academie Julian

Anna Althea Hills (January 28, 1882 – June 13, 1930) was an American plein air painter who specialized in impressionist landscapes of the Southern California coast.

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Hills attended Olivet College, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. After her schooling, she worked for Arthur Wesley Dow. Hills traveled in Holland and England, attended the Academie Julian and studied with John Noble Barlow. After returning to the United States, Hills traveled to the west coast and she switched from interior figures to impressionist landscapes. Hills settled in Laguna Beach, California where she opened a studio and taught.

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Besides her painting, Hills was known for community activism. She was involved with the Presbyterian church and ran the Sunday school. For six years, she was president of the Laguna Beach Art Association (founded in 1918). As president, it was Hills' strong advocacy that led to founding the Laguna Beach Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California in 1929. In addition, Hills urged her friend, the respected artist and critic Jennie V. Cannon, to create at her summer home in Carmel-by-the-Sea a similar organization and art gallery, which was eventually founded in 1927 as the Carmel Art Association and adopted verbatim the Laguna Beach preamble: β€œTo advance the knowledge of and interest in art; to create a spirit of co-operation and fellowship between painter and public.” Two years earlier Hills had been honored with a reception in Carmel.

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Awards

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  • Bronze medal, Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915
  • Bronze medal, California State Fair, 1919
  • Landscape Prize, Laguna Beach Art Association, 1922 & 1923
  • References

    Anna Althea Hills Wikipedia


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