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Artist Homer Hill

Homer Hill is a talented artist. He was born in 1917 in Newark, New Jersey. He died in 1968 in Livingston, New Jersey. He is known as an illustrator, commercial artist, designer, and painter. He spent most of his career in New York City. He went to the Parson School of Design in New York.

Homer Hill is listed in the 1966 edition of Who’s Who is American Art from the American Federation of Arts, Edited by Dorothy B. Gilbert and published by R.R. Bowker Company, New York & London, 1966. The listing explains that his work is held at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ.

Hill worked as an advertising artist for Shell Oil Company, National City Bank, Royal Canadian Academy-Victor, Seagram, and others. Homer was a traveling artist for the U.S. Air Force. His has artwork in the U.S. Air Force Documentary Art Collection. Homer Hill accepted the Agnes B. Noyes award in 1953, Kresge award, and special recognition from the New Jersey Watercolor Society.

Hill was well known as a member of the Society of illustrators, an organization that continues to be prestigious today. He had a one-man show there in 1965, and exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum, the Riverside Museum and Highgate Gallery.

Among his many clients were Good Housekeeping, Today’s Living, Sports Afield, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s, Herald Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Crossroads Magazine, The Christian Herald, and other national magazines. Homer Hill also designed the Minnesota Statehood Stamp for the U.S. Government.

Museum References:

The Air Force Art Collection Room 5 E271 Pentagon Washington, DC 20453-0002 http://www.afapo.hq.af.mil/Presentation/main/Index.cfm

The Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-3176 http://www.newarkmuseum.org/

Source: Stefanie Cullen, descendant of the artist. Lonnie Dunbier, Ask Art. Shlomit Dror, Newark Museum. Joyce Weaver, Mint Museum. Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who was Who in American Art.