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Hubert Shuptrine

Hubert Shuptrine (1936 - 2006) was active/lived in Tennessee.  Hubert Shuptrine is known for Portrait, figure, genre.

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Shuptrine at first wanted to become a veterinarian but changed his major after observing a studio art class in college, and graduated in 1959 from the University of Chattanooga with a bachelor's degree in fine arts painting.He earned numerous awards as an abstract oil painter in the 1960's and taught himself watercolor painting during an extended family vacation to Maine, in 1970.  From then on, he began chronicling the South and its people in images rendered in watercolor.  He traveled back roads, becoming the chronicler of  the Old South and its threatened way of life.  He collaborated with the Southern storyteller James Dickey in the 1974 book publication  Jericho: The South Behold, and published another book Home to Jericho, in 1987.

About watercolor painting he said: "It is often hit-and-miss.  I have startovers and failures. I fact, I estimate that nine out of ten end up in file thirteen.  And some paintings are pure acciden   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12422 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

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Facts about Hubert Shuptrine

   Publications  Book References:  4
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Hubert Shuptrine
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Waterworks: 150 Years of Watercolor October 2004 Severens, Martha R Yes
Watercolor: American Artist Hubert Shuptrine: Chronicler March 2002 Severens, Martha R Yes
4 Book References for Hubert Shuptrine
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
1987 Shuptrine, Hubert (Illustrator Home to Jericho 0 No
1976 Meyer, Susan E 40 Watercolorists and How They Work 175 Yes
1974 Dickey, James Jericho: The South Beheld (Hubert Shuptrine illustrator) 0 No
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