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Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
George Hitchcock
A Life Transformed by Light and Color The journey of George Hitchcock is one of the most remarkable transitions in American art history, moving from the rigid structures of law to the fluid, luminous world of Impressionism. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Hitchcock’s early path seemed destined for the courtroom rather than the canvas. After graduating from Brown University and completing his studies at Harvard Law School, he practice
d as a lawyer until the age of twenty-nine. It was only then that he abandoned the legal profession to pursue a formal education in the fine arts, seeking a new language through color and light. His artistic training took him across the Atlantic, where he immersed himself in the prestigious traditions of Europe. He studied at the Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London before moving to Paris to become a pupil of Gustave Boulanger an…