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for Harry Leslie Hoffman
1874 - 1964
Harry Hoffman attended Yale University, where he studied under John Ferguson Weir during his junior and senior years, 1895-97. He then worked under Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League for the 1897-98 and 1901-2 academic seasons and in 1903 moved on to Paris for study at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens. Hoffman had visited Old Lyme before going abroad. Following his marriage to Beatrice Pope in 1910 he settled there, and was associated with that town's artists' colony throughout his long and successful career as an Impressionist landscape painter.
In 1923 New York's American Museum of National History sent Hoffman as official painter with the William Beebee British Guiana Expedition and, the same year, the first William Beebee Galapagos Expedition. He began underwater diving on these trips, which led him to develop a specialty in pictures of the undersea "landscape," especially coral life. Paintings from these expeditions were shown at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, in 1939, and at the Burr Galleries, New York, in 1963.
In 1923 New York's American Museum of National History sent Hoffman as official painter with the William Beebee British Guiana Expedition and, the same year, the first William Beebee Galapagos Expedition. He began underwater diving on these trips, which led him to develop a specialty in pictures of the undersea "landscape," especially coral life. Paintings from these expeditions were shown at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, in 1939, and at the Burr Galleries, New York, in 1963.
