Howard Edwin Hack was an American representational painter and graphic artist, with works in numerous museum collections.
17 Facts About Howard Hack
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Howard Hack was active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Howard Hack was born July 6,1932, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and moved with his family to Oakland, California, in 1939.
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Between 1950 until 1953, Howard Hack learned Flemish painting techniques from Martin Baer, who had studied in Munich and Paris.
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Howard Hack attended California College of Arts and Crafts and the San Francisco Art Institute in this period, as well as studying with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at Mills College in the summer of 1949.
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In 1953, Howard Hack was drafted into the United States Army and assigned to Korea where he served as a truck driver and battalion clerk-typist.
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Howard Hack occupied studio space and lived in the Ghost House, along with other artists, including Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, and Hayward Ellis King.
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Between 1957 and 1959, Howard Hack lived primarily in San Miguel de Allende, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, a haven adopted by American artists and bohemians after World War II.
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In 1959, Howard Hack returned to the United States, enrolling as a philosophy undergraduate at the University of San Francisco.
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At USF Howard Hack studied the theories of the neo-Kantian idealist philosopher Ernst Cassirer, in particular his concepts of symbolism.
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In 1959, after a referral by Beat poet and bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howard Hack rented studio space with other artists on the third floor of the Audiffred Building located at 9 Mission Street in San Francisco.
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In 2013, Howard Hack donated the door from his Audiffred studio, signed by artists who had worked on the premises, to the Beat Museum in San Francisco's North Beach.
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In New York, Howard Hack's works were sold through Lee Nordness Gallery.
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In Hack's obituary, its remembered how 54 Cook Street became an afterschool play area for students from Laurel Hill Nursery School while Howard was still involved with the property.
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Howard Hack rented the downstairs to a woman named Dorothy Collier who taught at Laurel Hill in the late 1970s to 1980s and lived on the bottom floor with 60 cats.
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Information regarding One-Person Shows, Group Exhibitions, Collections, Awards and Prizes for Howard Hack is drawn primarily from the catalog for Howard Hack: Silverpoint Drawing Series, 1967 - 1981, An Exhibition organized by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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Howard Hack's works are in private collections and the following public and institutional collections:.