Harlan Hubbard

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Harlan Hubbard
Born(1900-01-04)January 4, 1900
Bellevue, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 1988(1988-01-16) (aged 88)
NationalityAmerican
EducationEvander Childs Educational Campus
National Academy of Design
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Known forPainting
SpouseAnna Eikenhout (m. 1943-1986)
FamilyLucien Hubbard (brother)

Harlan Hubbard (January 4, 1900 – January 16, 1988) was an American artist and writer, known for his simple lifestyle.

Early life and education

Hubbard was born in

Bronx and received his art education from New York's National Academy of Design and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In 1919, he returned with his mother to northern Kentucky and settled in Fort Thomas, Kentucky
.

Simple living at Payne Hollow

As a young man, Hubbard saw the industrial development in America as a threat to the natural world and he came to reject consumer culture. In 1929 he started keeping a journal into which he poured his thoughts on society. In 1943, he married Anna Eikenhout. The following year they built a shantyboat at Brent, Kentucky and traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, ending their journey in the Louisiana bayous in 1951. His book Shantyboat recounts the eight-year journey from Brent to New Orleans. His book Shantyboat in the Bayous, which was published in 1990, completes the story.

In 1951, Harlan and Anna built a simple home at Payne Hollow on the shore of the Ohio River in Trimble County, Kentucky. It was there that the Hubbards lived lives that have been described[by whom?] as simultaneously frugal and abundant. Hubbard published two books on their lifestyle: Payne Hollow and Journals, 1929-1944. Author Wendell Berry was a close friend of Hubbard's who wrote and lectured on the Hubbards' lives.

Hubbard's wife Anna died on May 4, 1986. Hubbard himself died two years later at the age of 88.

Artistic legacy

Hubbard's art was largely pastoral, including oils, watercolors, and woodblock printing. The Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky and the Frankfort Community Public Library (Frankfort, Indiana) have significant collections of his work.

Hubbard bequeathed Payne Hollow to his friend and fellow artist Paul Hassfurder. Hassfurder began living in Payne Hollow in 1989.[1]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ "Payne Hollow Today". Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2012-04-04.

References

External links
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