Artist Signatures

Lester George Hornby

Lester George Hornby (1882 - 1956) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Lester Hornby is known for Genre, landscape, illustrator, etcher.

The following is from a source whose grandmother, Bertha Goodrich, was married to the artist:

Lester George Hornby was married to Bertha Grover Goodrich, his last wife. They lived in Rockport, Massachusetts until his death in 1956. Together they built the "old on purpose" house using old materials to build a "new" "old" house. Lester is the one who gave the name "Motif #1" to the old fish house that has become so famous.

During WWI Hornby was a war correspondent. As did most artists at the time who did illustrations in relation to the war, Hornby had to have war- related pictures approved by the government before being published. In one case the war department refused to give permission because they felt his illustration was so accurate and well done that the enemy would have access to too much information. Hornby worked in the trenches with the men and his work reflects this.

At a Philadelphia exhibit of color etchings in 1909 the critic called Hornby
"the for   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4096 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 87 auction lots for Lester George Hornby (of which 67 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Lester George Hornby as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Lester George Hornby in 1 of its research Essays. Lester George Hornby has 14 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Lester George Hornby available:    Jules Andre Smith,  Ken Gore,  Leighton R Cram,  Alfred Czerepak,  Stow Wengenroth,  Charles Demetropoulos,  Oliver Balf,  Alan Horton Crane,  Joseph Margulies,  Joseph Rimini,  J Thurston Marshall,  John Loughlin,  Zygmund Jankowski,  John Fleming Gould,  John Alfred Cook,  Marshall Woodside Joyce,  Louis Burnett,  Parker Perkins,  Sven Ohrvel Carlson,  Arthur Norman (AN/Norm) Davis,  Harry Russell Ballinger,  Gilbert Margeson,  Frank Herrmann,  Frank Beatty