Walter Haskell Hinton

'Walter Haskell Hinton was a painter and illustrator He attended the Art Institute of Chicago 1901-1904, and he lived most of his life in the Chicago area, but spent some time in New York City, and Philadelphia

Early life

Walter Haskell Hinton was born August 24th, 1886 in San Francisco.(1886–1980) His father Walter Otho Hinton[1] was a well-traveled man, a linguist with an extraordinary memory who worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, possibly as a compositor. His mother, Mary Washburn Haskell Hinton, had strong artistic abilities. Hinton credited his own excellent visual memory to a combination of his parents’ talents. The family moved to Denver and then to Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. As a youth he saw a production of Buffalo Bill's Congress of Rough Riders of the World show – probably the one installed adjacent to the Exposition – which nourished his love of the Western pioneer and Native American cultures. WEB PAGE

His work included advertising, While in Philadelphia, Hinton developed the tobacco advertising character Velvet Joe for Liggett & Myers. Although he never received credit, it was Hinton who suggested Joe should resemble Mark Twain. outdoors magazines, illustrations for pulp magazines such as Mammoth Western and Western Story, magazine covers for Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Dairy Farmer, and Successful Farming, as well as illustrations of John Deere Tractors. Much of his calendar work ended up on puzzles. Artist Reviews.[2]

The Rediscovery of Walter Haskell Hinton

In 1988, a young new CEO named Robert Newman stumbled upon 24 paintings stashed in a storeroom at the company's headquarters. Awed and curious, he began asking where they came from, what they were for, and who made them. Robert Newman's interest, and that of his father Ervin Newman, led to a major retrospective exhibition in 1993, held at the Ewing Gallery of the University of Tennessee. It was the first ever exhibition of Walter Haskell Hinton's artwork, and the beginning of a recovery of Hinton's place in the history of American illustration art.

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References
  2. Michael Dregni (2003). 100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors: A Century of Tractor Tales and Heartwarming Family Farm Memories. Voyageur Press. ISBN 0-89658-002-4.

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