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About William A. Hofstetter
Philadelphian William Hofstetter, born 15 July 1884, studied at the Drexel Institute then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ school. He became a member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club but then moved to New York. Later he would exhibit back at the PAFA, in 1912: Sunny Day in Fall and Old Doorway: Pleasant Mills. At the Art Institute of Chicago he exhibited two pastels in 1916: Autumn and A Cool Spot. Hofstetter moved back to Philadelphia where he was still living in 1940. South Jersey Farmers is an example of American post-impressionism with its fully saturated colors, broadly painted forms, a use of clear contours, systematic brushwork in the field section, and an expressive tonal range. The style and subject of American farm workers suggests a date in the 1930s. |
Paintings by William A. Hofstetter
| Landscape |
| watercolor on paper: 25 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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