Homer Hill was a talented artist. Afriend of Norman Rockwell, he was born in 1917 in Newark, New Jersey. He died in 1968 in Livingston, New Jersey. He is known as an illustrator, commercial artist, designer, and painter. He spent most of his career in New York City. He went to the Parson School of Design in New York.

Homer Hill is listed in the 1966 edition of Who’s Who is American Art from the American Federation of Arts, Edited by Dorothy B. Gilbert and published by R.R. Bowker Company, New York & London, 1966. The listing explains that his work is held at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ.

Hill worked as an advertising artist for Shell Oil Company, National City Bank, Royal Canadian Academy-Victor, Seagram, and others. Homer was a traveling artist for the U.S. Air Force. His has artwork in the U.S. Air Force Documentary Art Collection. Homer Hill accepted the Agnes B. Noyes award in 1953, Kresge award, and special recognition from the New Jersey Watercolor Society.

Hill was well known as a member of the Society of illustrators in New York, an organization that continues to be prestigious today. He had a one-man show there in 1965, and exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum, the Riverside Museum and Highgate Gallery.

Among his many clients were Good Housekeeping, Today’s Living, Sports Afield, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s, Herald Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Crossroads Magazine, The Christian Herald, and other national magazines. Homer Hill also designed the Minnesota Statehood Stamp for the U.S. Government.

MUSEUM REFERENCES

The Air Force Art Collection Room 5 E271 Pentagon Washington, DC 20453-0002 http://www.afapo.hq.af.mil/Presentation/main/Index.cfm

The Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102-3176 http://www.newarkmuseum.org/

Source: Stefanie Cullen, descendant of the artist. Lonnie Dunbier, Ask Art Shlomit Dror, Newark Museum Joyce Weaver, Mint Museum Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who was Who in American Art

HOMER HILL, ARTIST, DEPICTED AIR BASES MORRISTOWN, N.J., April 3-Homer Hill, artist and illustrator, died today at the Morristown Memorial Hospital on the eve of his 51st birthday. He lived on Post House Road in Harding Township. Mr. Hill's illustrations had appeared in McCall's, The Reader's Digest, The Ladies Home Journal, Good House-keeping, The New York Herald Tribune, Today's Living, Sports Afield, The Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Day, and other national magazines and newspapers. He worked extensively for the documentary art program of the United States Air Force. His illustrations of scenes at Air Force bases are included in the traveling exhibits of the service, and are on view at the Pentagon and the Air Force Academy. Recently he went to Puerto Rico to execute a 17 by 30 foot mural for the Bacardi Corporation, rum producers. Mr. Hill was born in Newark and studied at the Parsons School of Design. He belonged to the Society of Illustrators and the New Jersey Water-Color Society.HOMER HILL, ARTIST, DEPICTED AIR BASES MORRISTOWN, N.J., April 3-Homer Hill, artist and illustrator, died today at the Morristown Memorial Hospital on the eve of his 51st birthday. He lived on Post House Road in Harding Township. Mr. Hill's illustrations had appeared in McCall's, The Reader's Digest, The Ladies Home Journal, Good House-keeping, The New York Herald Tribune, Today's Living, Sports Afield, The Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Day, and other national magazines and newspapers. He worked extensively for the documentary art program of the United States Air Force. His illustrations of scenes at Air Force bases are included in the traveling exhibits of the service, and are on view at the Pentagon and the Air Force Academy. Recently he went to Puerto Rico to execute a 17 by 30 foot mural for the Bacardi Corporation, rum producers. Mr. Hill was born in Newark and studied at the Parsons School of Design. He belonged to the Society of Illustrators and the New Jersey Water-Color Society. He leaves his wife, the former Victoria Carlson, and two daughters, Tori and Tempe.

Published: April 4, 1968 Copyright ©The New York Times http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60B11FA3E541B7B93C6A9178FD85F4C8685F9