1987.48 William Henry Huddle, Still LIfe with Fruit | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

William Henry Huddle came with his family to Paris, Texas in the late 1860s. He developed an early interest in painting and journeyed to New York in 1874 to study at the National Academy of Design. The following year Huddle became one of the earliest students at the newly-organized Art Students League. In 1876 he returned to Austin, where he set up a studio. Within a few years the industrious painter was at work on a proposed gallery of portraits of all the presidents and governors of Texas. He determined to seek further study to improve his technique, and in 1884 he traveled to Europe and stayed briefly in Munich, where he painted this still life. The style is derived, however, from Dutch and Flemish examples that Huddle likely studied, and is one of the few such works by the artist that have come to light. Huddle returned to Texas and finished his gallery of portraits, which was subsequently purchased by the State. In addition, Huddle is primarily known for his paintings of several notable events in early Texas history.

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DMA unpublished material

NOTES

Created in 1884

Bibliography:

Frankenstein, Alfred V. After the Hunt: William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870-1900. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953. (Not mentioned specifically, but good survey of painters in still life of the period).

Pinckney, Pauline A. Painting in Texas, The Nineteenth Century. Austin/London: University of Texas Press, 1967.

General Description: DMA unpublished material found in Object Collections Record (not in Brain, TMS, etc., just on a piece of paper that looks like it was used as label text)

Catalogue essays

Hoblitzelle Foundation

Art Students League (New York)

Artist/designers

Huddle, William Henry (American, 1847-1892)

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Geography

Place of origin: Munich (Germany): TGN: 7004333

Process/materials

Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite

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PROVENANCE

From 1987: Dallas Museum of Art, The Karl and Esther Hobitzelle Collection, gift of the Hobitzelle Foundation

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WEB RESOURCES

William Henry Huddle, Biography~Read a biography of William Henry Huddle at the Texas State Historical Association website.

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General Description

William Henry Huddle came with his family to Paris, Texas in the late 1860s. He developed an early interest in painting and journeyed to New York in 1874 to study at the National Academy of Design. The following year Huddle became one of the earliest students at the newly-organized Art Students League. In 1876 he returned to Austin, where he set up a studio. Within a few years the industrious painter was at work on a proposed gallery of portraits of all the presidents and governors of Texas. He determined to seek further study to improve his technique, and in 1884 he traveled to Europe and stayed briefly in Munich, where he painted this still life. The style is derived, however, from Dutch and Flemish examples that Huddle likely studied, and is one of the few such works by the artist that have come to light. Huddle returned to Texas and finished his gallery of portraits, which was subsequently purchased by the State. In addition, Huddle is primarily known for his paintings of several notable events in early Texas history.