biography of Gayle Porter HOSKINS (1887-1962)

Birth place: Brazil, IN

Death place: Wilmington, DE

Addresses: Wilmington 35, DE

Profession: Painter, illustrator, designer, teacher

Studied: AIC with Vanderpoel, 1904; Howard Pyle, 1907.

Exhibited: Wilmington Soc. Art, 1916-58; Swope Gal. Art, Terre Haute, IN; Indiana AA; Ogunquit, ME; Coral Gables, FL; Marshall-Fields, Chicago; Wanamakers, Wilmington. Awards: prize, Wilmington Soc. FA.

Work: Custer Battlefield Nat. Monument; Eleutherian-Hagley Mills Fnd. Mus., Wilmington; Delaware Chamber of Commerce; portraits: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington; Wilmington Savings Fund Soc.; Wilmington Artisans' Bank, City Council and legal firms

Comments: Specialty: hist. military subjects; from 1928-38, Western subjects. Illustr.: Kazan; Me, Smith; Bill and Jim series; magazines; advertising. Teaching: Wilmington Acad. Art.

Sources: WW59; P&H Samuels, 237.