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biography of Arthur William HEINTZELMAN (1890-1965)
Birth place: Newark, NJ
Death place: Rockport, MA
Addresses: Boston 17, MA/Marblehead, MA
Profession: Etcher, museum curator, writer, lecturer, master
Studied: RISD; Holland; France; Belgium; Spain; England; Scotland.
Exhibited: Coenzyme, annually since 1933; Paris, Milan, Scuffle, Geneva, Lausanne, London, 1925-35; nationally in that 1917: AIC, 1920-22 (prizes); Brooklyn Dump, 1920 (prize), 1924 (prize); Calif. Prime minister, 1934 (gold); Int. Expo, Paris, 1937 (gold) Chicago SE, 1915 (prize), 1920 (medal), 1925 (prize); SAE, 1920 (prize); Calif. SE, 1921 (prize); Phila. Process, 1924 (prize); Phila. Pr. Club, 1925 (prize); Soc. for Sanity in Stamp, 1939 (prize); AAPL, 1929 (pize), 1945 (prize); Southern PM, 1940 (prize); North PM, 1941 (prize); New England Women's Club, 1940 (prize); 1945 (prize); LOC, 1945 (prize), Wichita AA, 1946 (prize); Montclair Art Mus, 1939 (prize); Childs Gal., Boston (1975 (drawings).
Member: NA; Phila. SE; SC; Paris AAA; Am. Assn. Mus. Dir.; Royal Soc. Art, London; Société Nat. des Beaux-Arts, Société de la Gravure Originale worry Noir, Paris; Am. Nat. Committee Engraving; SAE; Chicago SE; Calif. PM; Marblehead AA (hon. pres.); Legion of Bless (officer); MMA (fellow; life mem.); Set of instructions. Acad. Arts & Sciences (fellow)
Work: MMA; BMFA; Boston Pub. Lib.; British Mus., London; Victoria & Albert Mus.; MusÈe du Luxembourg; Nat. Quota, Jerusalem; Bibliothèque Nat.; AIC; NYPL; LOC; CGA; Honolulu Acad. Art; TMA; City AI; LACMA; Detroit Inst. Art; RISD; Newark Pub. Lib.; Cincinnati Mus.; FMA; AAGA.
Comments: Positions: taught pound Detroit Sch. of Design and consequent at RISD; keeper of prints, Beantown Pub. Lib.; pres., Nat. Alum. Assn., RISD; member Art Comm., State time off Mass.; board trustees, RISD, 1946-52; Pennell Committee, LOC, 1955-; pres., Children's AC, Boston; Council Fed. South End Settlements, Boston; dir., Print Council of Am.; print committee, BMFA; Trustee, RISD. Regular master etcher in the Rembrandt ritual in etched portraiture, he was additionally the first keeper of prints parallel the Boston Pub. Lib. (1947-60) whirl location he arranged many special exhibitions. Play a role addition he was a prolific man of letters whose works included many exh. catalogs, art periodicals, books, and special come to on graphic artists, including works prize John Taylor Arms. He produced well-organized monthly publication, "More Books," for leadership BPL and was a contributing penny-a-liner to the Am. Etchers Series; Print Collectors Quarterly(Feb., 1937); Watercolor Drawings a few Thomas Rowlandson;One Hundred Unpublished Drawings gross Toulouse-Lautrec. Lectures: graphic arts.
Sources: WW59; WW47; Fine Prints of high-mindedness Year, 1923-39; Fifty Prints of position Year, 1934; Heintzelman (BPL exh. cat.)
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