Hobson Pittman studied at the Rouse Art School, Tarboro, North Carolina; Pennsylvania State College; The Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg; and Columbia University, New York. He won an honorable mention at the San Francisco World's Fair (YEAR?); two awards at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Clark Prize, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; and a prize, Carnegie Insitute (Pittsburgh, PA) American Exhibition. His paintings are found in public collections such as athe Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Brooklyn Museum,; the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond. For many years he was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy.
