Francis Edwin Hodge (December 1881 – 6 February 1949) was an English painter.
Biography
editBorn in Devon, England, Hodge studied at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. Among his other teachers were Augustus John, William Orpen and Frank Brangwyn and he also studied for a short time in Paris.[1] Hodge enlisted in the Artists' Rifles at the start of World War I and served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front. He continued to paint during the conflict and some of those paintings are now held by the Imperial War Museum.[2] His work was entered to the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[3] During World War II, the War Artists' Advisory Committee purchased examples of his work.[4]
Membership
editHodge was a member of or affiliated with the following organisations:
- 1915: Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists,
- 1927: Elected member of Royal Institute of Oil Painters,
- 1929: Elected member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
- 1931: Elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
Hodge was also a member of the Chelsea Arts Club.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b David Buckman (1998). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-95326-095-X.
- ^ Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss (2016). WWII War Pictures by British Artists. Liss Llewellyn Fine Art. ISBN 978-0-9930884-2-1.
- ^ "Francis Hodge". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ Brain Foss (2007). War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3.
- Andrew Ellis, Sonia Roe (eds.), Oil paintings in public ownership in the Imperial War Museum, Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006.
External links
edit- 37 artworks by or after Francis Edwin Hodge at the Art UK site
- Works by Hodge in the Imperial War Museum
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