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H. Snowden Hodges (born April 25, 1938) is a working artist and college professor in Honolulu, Hawaii. He paints and draws in the contemporary realist style. Hodges has an extensive exhibition record in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii since 1978. Hodges, born April 25, 1938, lived in Ellicott City, Maryland during his entire childhood. Hodges began drawing and painting in the 1960s under the tutelage of several of the well-known Maryland Realists including, Earl Hofmann, Joseph Sheppard, and other artists who studied with Jacques Maroger. He attended The Maryland Institute College of Art on a Senatorial Scholarship and received a BFA, ''cum laude'', in 1970 and an MFA in 1976. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His solo exhibitions include exhibits at The British Institute of Florence in Italy, Gump's Gallery in San Francisco, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, The Queen Emma Gallery in Honolulu, and the Commons Gallery at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2002 his solo exhibition at The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Snowden Hodges: Florence and the Labors of Hercules, received critical acclaim both in Honolulu and nationally. His work has been featured in many juried and group exhibitions, among them: The Contemporary Art Museum in Honolulu, The Hawaii State Art Museum, The Phoenix-Chase Galleries Ltd., Baltimore, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery in Annapolis, The Downtown Gallery of the Delaware Art Museum, the Johns Hopkins University, the Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa Florida, and the Sanyo Hoso Gallery, in Takamatsu, Japan. In addition, his paintings have been selected eleven times for the prestigious annual "Artists of Hawaii Exhibit" at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Many of his works are in important national and international private, public, and corporate collections, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Hawaii State Art Museum, The First Hawaiian Bank, The Bank of Hawaii, Kagawa College in Shikoku, Japan, and the British Institute of Florence, Italy. Hodges has received honors for his paintings and drawings including awards from The Delaware Art Museum, The Artist’s Magazine, The Brad Cooper Gallery in Florida, the “exit” gallery in Ohio, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and awards in three exhibitions sponsored by the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce. In 1977 he was selected as the expedition artist as part of a National Geographic Society team studying prehistoric Native American structures and astronomy in the southwestern United States. He has received the Hawaii State Foundation for Culture and the Arts -Acquisition Award four times. In 2002 Hodges was the subject of a short documentary “One-Minute-Egg”, which was produced by PBS Hawaii in conjunction with Egg the Arts Show on national PBS. In 2002 Hodges created Atelier Hawai’i,〔(Atelierhawaii )〕 a program in classical realism. In this intensive, immersion curriculum students learn time-honored techniques of drawing and painting. Since its inception the program has been hugely successful receiving critical acclaim and drawing students from Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the US mainland. Hodges currently resides in Honolulu and is Professor of Art at the University of Hawai’i-Windward. His work is shown by The Fine Art Associates in Honolulu. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Snowden Hodges」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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