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March Issue 2003

Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, Features Works by Hobson Pittman

The Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, is pleased to announce a new exhibition entitled, Hobson Pittman: The Pastel Still Lifes, on view through Apr. 20, 2003.

One of the great names in North Carolina art belongs to Edgecombe County native Hobson Pittman. Pittman was born in 1899 near Tarboro, NC. After the death of his parents in 1918, he moved to Pennsylvania to live with his sister. He lived in Pennsylvania the rest of his life and became nationally known both as an artist and as an art teacher, having taught for years at Pennsylvania State University and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He died in 1972 in Pennsylvania and was buried in Tarboro's Greenwood Cemetery.

Pittman was known for his paintings of interiors and still lifes. All of the 26 works in the exhibition date from 1925 to 1971 and are on loan from the Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery in Tarboro. This is the first time that only pastel still lifes have been assembled for a museum exhibition and we are grateful to Meade Home, director of the Blount-Bridgers House/Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery for allowing us this opportunity.

Many of these works will never travel again, so don't miss your chance to see this rare exhibition of one of North Carolina's greatest artists. A brochure, with an essay by Meade Home, accompanies the exhibition.

For more information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the museum at 252/758-1946 or e-mail at (art@greenvillenc.com).

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