biographie de Hewitt GREEN (1865-1901)

Birth place: Louisville, KY

Death place: Louisville

Addresses: Louisville

Profession: Listed as artist", writer"

Studied: G. Saintpierre

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1888, 1890

Work: Univ. Kentucky Art Mus.

Comments: Listed as an artist in the Louisville city directories from 1891-1901. May also have spent some time in Paris and other European cities. By the mid-1890s he was aware of Post-Impressionism. The works in his home were destroyed by fire. Also appears as R. Hewett Green.

Sources: Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 52 (w/repro.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 348.