{"id":353,"date":"2017-01-19T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/visualarts\/?p=353"},"modified":"2017-01-18T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T03:52:41","slug":"hodgin-work-donated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/visualarts\/2017\/01\/hodgin-work-donated\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodgin Work Donated"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCGUFFEY MOMENTS<\/strong>
\nSTEVE GORDON, ADMINISTRATOR<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston Dean Hodgin, Miami University, and Landscape Arts<\/h3>\n

\"marstondeanhodgin_bw\"Oxford and the Miami University campus are rich in imagery. A seminal figure in capturing the area\u2019s iconic images was the landscape artist Marston Dean Hodgin (1903-2003). Along with Edwin Fulwider, a Miami colleague and fellow artist, they painted familiar buildings and scenes in the region for nearly 40 years. Together, they left an impressive body of mid-20th century work.
\nHodgin\u2019s artistic career spanned seven decades. Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Hodgin, a Quaker, graduated from Earlham College. One of his first art exhibitions was in Provincetown, MA, where Hodgin studied and attended classes. In 1927, Hodgin was appointed artist-in-residence at Miami; later he established the Department of Art through the support of a Carnegie grant. For Hodgin, \u201cart represented a harmonious interpretation of the physical and spiritual phenomena.\u201d He followed this approach while teaching art history, drawing and painting at Miami. Following retirement from Miami in 1963, Hodgin and his wife Lucy resided in N. Truro, MA. There he attained considerable notoriety for his watercolors of Lower Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

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About the Painting<\/h3>\n

\"MarstonPainting_HuestonWoodsMaybe\"According to Molly Lampert, the work may depict Hueston Woods. It is signed on the back, \u201cMarston Hodgin 1937.\u201d Cal Conrad, a long-time Oxford resident, believes the view may be looking east across the valley where the Maple Sugar shack is located today. Most likely, the scene was painted in late winter 1937 (February-March) or early winter 1937-1938 (Nov-Dec). January 1937 was unusually mild with no snow but instead brought nearly 15 inches of rain to the region. What resulted was the Ohio River Flood of 1937.<\/p>\n

Molly Ann Shera Lampert is descended from one of Oxford Township\u2019s pioneer families. Since Molly\u2019s childhood, the painting has been owned by the family. The Hodgins and Sheras were close friends, and their children grew up together, attending McGuffey School. Molly and Tony Hodgin, Marston\u2019s son, graduated together in the last class to attend McGuffey High School. For Molly, the painting evokes beautiful memories of a remote entrance to Hueston Woods, at a specific moment in time. The melting snow suggests the finishing of something.<\/p>\n

But the path which leads the eye to a beautiful blue hillside elicits hope and expectation for a good experience. Molly says, \u201cSometimes when I looked at the painting, I felt like I was the only person who ever saw that secret entrance to Hueston Woods. Perhaps I was on a Girl Scout hike, or perhaps, as a young adult, I had driven to the woods to work on a problem. The painting hung in our living room, and was an organic part of our family life. It was shrouded in cigar and cigarette smoke at times, or brightened with laughter. To me, the painting is an echo of Oxford and Hueston Woods in a simpler time…a time of family life in the Mile Square and on the Miami campus. I hope the people who enjoy this painting can get a small snapshot of life in Oxford Township, which was a place where nature was right down the road, and one could work out one\u2019s small journeys in peace and beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGuffey Museum is grateful to Molly Lampert for her generous donation.<\/p>\n

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McGuffey Museum hours:<\/em>
\nThur\u2013Sat: 1\u20135 PM<\/em><\/p>\n

401 E. Spring St. Oxford, OH 45056<\/em>
\n(513) 529-8380<\/em>
\nMcGuffeyMuseum@MiamiOH.edu<\/em>
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