Polly Knipp Hill

Polly Knipp Hill -Suwannee River, Florida - Etching AP1636

Regular price $150.00

A very fine etching, beautifully drawn. Measures 10 1/4" x 6 3/8" (plate size) and 13" x 9.5" (sheet size). Titled and signed in pencil.

Pauline Knipp Hill (2 April 1900 – 22 February 1990) was an artist in the United States. Her work was shown April 7, 2012 – June 3, 2012 at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia. She grew up in Urbana, Illinois.

Knipp and George Snow Hill were students of Carl Tracy Hawley in the College of Fine Arts at the Syracuse University. She followed Hill to Paris, France after graduation and they were married on November 16, 1925, in St. Luke's Chapel.

She produced etchings of European architecture early in her career and "satirical genre scenes that reflected American culture" later. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

She died in 1990 in St. Petersburg, Florida. 


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