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Harry Leslie Hoffman (1871–1964) was an American Impressionist painter best known for his brightly colored paintings of underwater marine life.
Hoffman’s Savannah paintings feature loose, Impressionistic brushwork and vibrant, saturated colors. In 1916, he visited the Bahamas and became interested in seascapes and underwater scenes. During the early twenties, Hoffman accompanied renowned naturalist William Beebe as a staff artist on expeditions to the Galapagos Islands, British ...
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In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick. Hoffman depicted urban genre scenes around the city and was inspired by the soft hazy light created by the tropical climate. Hoffman's Savannah paintings feature loose, Impressionistic brushwork and vibrant, saturated colors.
Harry Hoffman (1874-1966) Detail of James. Oil on canvas. Gift of the artist. By the 1920s, Hoffman was gaining a reputation as a painter of underwater scenes. Since this predates diving helmets, Hoffman would use a water-glass (a bucket with a glass bottom) to see beneath the waves.
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Hoffman lived to be ninety-two years old, the longest lived of the Old Lyme painters. Located in picturesque Old Lyme, practically perfectly equidistant from Boston and New York, you'll find The Cooley Gallery.
Hoffman was born on March 16, 1871, in Cressona, Pennsylvania, and died on March 6, 1964, in Old Lyme. He was in New Haven, 1895-97; in Old Lyme, summers, 1902-09; and permanently, 1910-64. Harry Hoffman, back in Old Lyme after a short period of study at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1903, invited Willard Metcalf to critique his recent work.
