23 Facts About George Biddle

George Biddle was an American painter, muralist and lithographer, best known for his social realism and combat art.

George Biddle completed his undergraduate studies and later earned a law degree from Harvard.

George Biddle was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.

George Biddle's works were exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

George Biddle was hired in 1940, along with eight other prominent American artists, to document dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, a cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays.

George Biddle served as president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1935 to 1936.

George Biddle himself traveled through Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy with the 3rd Infantry Division and produced works documenting that unit's activities.

George Biddle wrote a book on his war travels: Artist at War Tunisia-Sicily-Italy, Viking Press, 1944.

In 1950, George Biddle was appointed to the US Commission of Fine Arts, serving until 1951 and again from 1953 to 1955.

George Biddle's brother was Francis Biddle, who was Attorney General of the United States.

George Biddle died on November 6,1973, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Some factors that contributed to George Biddle's artwork are the many art movements that he was involved in.

George Biddle was involved in "French Impressionism; the American Ashcan School; the School of Paris and Cubism during those early and exciting days when it first exploded on the world; Regionalism, the Mexican Mural Movement, and the New Deal Subsidy of Art".

George Biddle was involved in the "post war currents of contemporary art".

George Biddle borrowed many of the other artists' styles and turned them into his own by using different techniques and images to get a different effect.

George Biddle believed that everyone's life should be influenced by every "fact with which one comes in contact, until one ceases to grow or is, actually dead".

George Biddle met Cassatt at the Academie Julian in Paris; she too was from Philadelphia.

Some of George Biddle's prints reflected "the style of these two artists in their intimate, domestic subject matter".

George Biddle achieved a lot of goals that helped other artists make their way.

George Biddle's work serves as a "kind of index to the many style and themes which occupied artists in the first half of the 20th century".

When George Biddle volunteered to go to the war, it changed his whole life and how he saw the world.

George Biddle got to travel the country and study the art of different cultures thus enriching the art that he would produce.

George Biddle captured scenes and people how they naturally occurred in life.