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George Overbury Pop HartHart was born in Cairo, Illinois, and for the most part was self-taught, although, he spent some time at the Chicago Art Institute and the Academie Julian in Paris. No doubt, his impatience with academic learning caused him to leave, but he was encouraged by, and learned from his artist friends.
Hart was more content living the simple life over affluence and critic recognition. The small amount of money he received from sign painting, and stage designs for movie sets, was used for his travels to warm and distant places. Traveling to Mexico, Central America, North Africa, the Caribbean and South Seas, Hart, experienced life with excitement, amusement, and empathy.
More than eighty prints portray his vagabond encounters on paper, in an experimental manner, rather than conventional. The use of broad strokes, liquid tusche washes, sandpaper, roulette, and monotype, helped to achieve a painter like quality in his work. Hart's images show exuberance in the everyday life of working people at cockfights, fiestas, outdoor markets, and leisure activities.
This was an artist that loved creating images, and the people, seen, in them.
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
Salutations, Senor
7-1/8 x 6-1/8 in.
Soft-ground etching, 1926, edition about 25. Newark Museum 203.
Signed in pencil.
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
The Gallery, Old French Opera House, New Orleans
5 x 9-1/8 in.
Lithograph, 1924, edition limited but unknown. Newark Museum 218.
Signed on the stone, lower left; signed in pencil. Titled in pencil, lower
Left, "There is a nice one." Illustrated in George Overbury "Pop" Hart-
His Life and Art, Gregory Gilbert, 1986, p.78, fig.73.
Signed in pencil.
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
The Mule Car
10 x 12-7/8 in.
Lithograph, 1925, edition limited but unknown. Newark Museum 229.
Signed and titled on the stone, lower right; signed in pencil.
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
The Gamblers
6-7/8 x 9 in.
Lithograph, hand colored, 1924, probably an edition of 25 or less. Newark Museum 219.
Signed on the stone, lower left, signed in pencil. In good condition other than faint
light discoloration from a previous mat opening. Illustrated in George Overbury "Pop" Hart-His Life and Art, Gregory Gilbert, Rutgers University, 1986, p.82, fig.78.
$500. |
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
The Corral or Mexican Indians and Animals Resting
12-1/4 x 16-3/4 in.
Lithograph colored by hand, 1928, edition 5/7. Newark Museum 226.
Signed and dated on the stone; signed and numbered in pencil. A fine example
of Hart's innovative approach to obtain more painterly effects in his prints,
simulating charcoal lines and using broad tones of earth colors.
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George Overbury Pop Hart
American (1868-1933)
Chicken Vendor, Trinidad
9-3/8 x 6-7/8 in.
Drypoint and sandpaper, 1923, edition limited but unknown. Newark
Museum 171. Signed in pencil. Illustrated in Contemporary American
Etching, 1930, pl.29, and George Overbury "Pop" Hart-His Life and Art,
Gregory Gilbert, 1986, p.86, fig.85.
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