Paintings by Captain Brett Hilder (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1951 December 3 - unknown

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened December 3, 1951. Located in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The "Black Orloff" Diamond exhibition presented the world's largest black diamond.

Summary

"Paintings by Captain Brett Hilder" featured watercolor portraits of peoples of the South Pacific and the East Indies. Captain Hilder, master of the passenger steamer Morinda, painted the portraits of the peoples from various cultural and geographical backgrounds with whom he came in contact: Hindu, Buddhist, Javanese, Micronesian and Polynesian. The portraits were on view in the Corner Gallery of the American Museum of Natural History starting December 3, 1951.

Sources

American Museum of Natural History Press Release, December 3, 1951. Departmental Records, 101; American Museum of Natural History Library Archives.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Corner Gallery.
Location of exhibition.

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