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Jensen, Margaret [Photographs from the Margaret and Hank Jensen collection on Hans Hofmann].
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Title:
[Photographs from the Margaret and Hank Jensen collection on Hans Hofmann]Creator/Contributor:
Jensen, Margaret, 1896-1978, creator, creator.Abstract:
Chiefly snapshots of Hofmann instructing art classes at his school in Provincetown, Mass. Images show Hofmann drawing, critiquing
and otherwise interacting with students. A couple other images are snapshot portraits of Hofmann. Among the students depicted
is Hank Jensen.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
Hofmann, Hans -- 1880-1966 -- PhotographsNote:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected and possibly photographed by Margaret and/or Hank Jensen.
Also includes a printed business card for Hofmann's art school in Munich, dating to the 1920s or early 1930s, collected by
Margaret Jensen's sister-in-law Esther Topp.
Photographs from the Margaret and Hank Jensen collection on Hans Hofmann, BANC PIC 2017.114, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Margaret Edmunds Jensen (May 14, 1896-August 27, 1978) studied under Hans Hoffman. Her son, Hank Jensen (born Henry Grosvenor
Jensen, April 29, 1930, Pennsylvania; died February 22, 1999, Provincetown, Massachusetts) was an artist and also studied
under Hofmann.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
photoprint
47 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 26 x 21 cm or smaller
Language:
English