OK, I have a different thread going in the science sub-forum about a different painting (http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=344132). I think that painting was for a science related publication.
Now, the painting for THIS thread is different. I don't think it's illustration art and it is signed. The signature is clear, but who signed it is NOT clear.
Here's what I've discovered. First, here's the painting in question:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item...sgnd-a-giehoff
Who is A. Giehoff? Another auction house which sold some paintings that were signed the same way makes this claim:
"A. Giehoff is a possible ghost artist name of Arthur Greg Hoff. Mr. Hoff may have been an illustrator for Curtis Publishing which produced 'The Saturday Evening Post'. Mr. Hoff lived in Philadelphia and summered in White Mills, PA (Wayne County). These artworks were found at his summer residence years after he no longer lived there."
Source: https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antique...ation/26695486
Get it? Arthur Greg Hoff/A. G. Hoff/A. Giehoff. Makes complete sense, especially if they were found in his home. What is the problem?
I can find no evidence of any Arthur Greg Hoff who lived in Philadelphia or White Mills or who worked as an artist. There was a Guy Hoff who did many covers for The Saturday Evening Post, but not an Arthur or Greg Hoff.
Meanwhile, actress Judith Malina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Malina) wrote a memoir in which she mentions her friend, surrealist painter, Adolph Giehoff. She talks about inviting him to an art lecture with her and also about going to see a window display of his paintings at Berdorf Goodman (https://newyorkthegoldenage.tumblr.c...spectacular-we)
She says the paintings at Bergdorf Goodman were "landscapes with unicorns and satyrs."
Here is a landscape signed A. Giehoff that includes unicorns: https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antique...95487#topoflot
The pictures do not display properly for me, but if I open the thumbnails in a new window, they do work.
Possibly from the Bergdorf Goodman show?
Adolph Giehoff also contributed the 1951 Christmas cover for Pulse magazine which was an internal employee publication for The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was apparently a patient there at some point.
He also had a painting hanging over the fireplace at the Lombardy Restaurant near Harrisburg, PA, where he had been a waiter.
So that's what I know. Who was A. Giehoff? I'm leaning toward Adolph, but the Arthur Greg Hoff story is so specific that it would have to have been made up out of whole cloth by the auction house that was selling those pieces. That seems odd.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ward
Now, the painting for THIS thread is different. I don't think it's illustration art and it is signed. The signature is clear, but who signed it is NOT clear.
Here's what I've discovered. First, here's the painting in question:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item...sgnd-a-giehoff
Who is A. Giehoff? Another auction house which sold some paintings that were signed the same way makes this claim:
"A. Giehoff is a possible ghost artist name of Arthur Greg Hoff. Mr. Hoff may have been an illustrator for Curtis Publishing which produced 'The Saturday Evening Post'. Mr. Hoff lived in Philadelphia and summered in White Mills, PA (Wayne County). These artworks were found at his summer residence years after he no longer lived there."
Source: https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antique...ation/26695486
Get it? Arthur Greg Hoff/A. G. Hoff/A. Giehoff. Makes complete sense, especially if they were found in his home. What is the problem?
I can find no evidence of any Arthur Greg Hoff who lived in Philadelphia or White Mills or who worked as an artist. There was a Guy Hoff who did many covers for The Saturday Evening Post, but not an Arthur or Greg Hoff.
Meanwhile, actress Judith Malina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Malina) wrote a memoir in which she mentions her friend, surrealist painter, Adolph Giehoff. She talks about inviting him to an art lecture with her and also about going to see a window display of his paintings at Berdorf Goodman (https://newyorkthegoldenage.tumblr.c...spectacular-we)
She says the paintings at Bergdorf Goodman were "landscapes with unicorns and satyrs."
Here is a landscape signed A. Giehoff that includes unicorns: https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antique...95487#topoflot
The pictures do not display properly for me, but if I open the thumbnails in a new window, they do work.
Possibly from the Bergdorf Goodman show?
Adolph Giehoff also contributed the 1951 Christmas cover for Pulse magazine which was an internal employee publication for The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was apparently a patient there at some point.
He also had a painting hanging over the fireplace at the Lombardy Restaurant near Harrisburg, PA, where he had been a waiter.
So that's what I know. Who was A. Giehoff? I'm leaning toward Adolph, but the Arthur Greg Hoff story is so specific that it would have to have been made up out of whole cloth by the auction house that was selling those pieces. That seems odd.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ward
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