Hughson Hawley
(English, 1850 -1936)
"Ely Cathedral"
30 x 23 ins -- 76 x 58 cms
Drawing-Watercolour, with white heightening. signed and dated 1915
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Hughson Hawley was a brilliant delineator, his architectural drawings are of exceptional detail, the people in the drawings look "life-like".
Hawley was one of the pioneer delineators in America, and the most popular.
Hughson Hawley was born in 1850 at Stratford-on-Avon, England. He married at the age of 16, two years later there were two sons.
Hawley painted at several locations in England until moving to New York City in 1879.
In 1879 Hawley received an offer to paint scenery for The Madison Square Theatre in New York City. The following year, Hawley had established himself in New York where he lived for 50 years.
Hawley was a regular exhibitor at the annual exhibition of The Architectural League in New York. Hawley's success is evident by the prices requested for his drawings. In 1890 a drawing of Rouen Cathedral was listed at $650 a very large sum of money at that time.
The 1880's was the beginning of the skyscraper area in New York; Hawley's client's were the architects of many of these new buildings, some of them still standing as familiar skylines.
At the age of "81" in 1931 Hawley retired, he left New York to live with his daughter in Brighton, England, until his death on May 11th 1936.
Examples of the original work by Hughson Hawley are held at:-
The Library of Congress - Washington D.C.
Museum of the City of New York
Fine Arts Museums - San Francisco
Historical Society - Washington D.C.Columbia University - City of New York.Much more information on Hughson Hawley can found be on internet search engines.