Musician-painter, Hugh Dana Gibson, was born and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma where the University of Oklahoma was his constant playground. All of his siblings were either musicians or artists but he chose to do both. He obtained an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, served during the Korean War in Europe, where he played viola with the U.S. 7th Army Symphony for two years. Subsequent trips to Europe after the war had a profound effect on his artwork. The oil painting "Voyage to Byzantium" was inspired by Byzantine-style mosaics he saw in Ravenna and Venice. The silkscreen "Orvieto" was part of a series inspired by Italian cathedrals. Whether they be abstracts based on times in Europe or lush representations of life around his adobe-style Llano Quemado home and studio in Taos, New Mexico, where he has lived and painted since the early 1990s, the quality of the “solo observer” quietly witnessing the ebbs and flows of life, is a major thread that runs through all of Gibson’s paintings.
Hugh Gibson
Studios
New Hampshire
Hugh Gibson worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…