Artist: David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870)
Nationality: British
Movement:
Media: Painting, Photography
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
David Octavius Hill, Group in Greyfriars Churchyard, circa 1845
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David Octavius Hill, Professor George Moir, Advocate, circa 1843 - 1847
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson Title: The Reverend Robert Young Date: about 1845
Museum of Fine Arts -
Hill and Adamson, Scottish, 19th century Inclusive of David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802-1870 Inclusive of
J. Paul Getty Museum -
D. O. Hill
Museum of Fine Arts -
Hill and Adamson, Scottish, 19th century Inclusive of David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802-1870 Inclusive of
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David Octavius Hill - Mrs. Bell of Madras c. 1844 salted-paper print f Cincinnati Art Museum British
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Sir David Brewster
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
[Newhaven Fishwives], ca. 1845 David Octavius Hill (Scottish, 1802-1870); Robert Adamson (British, 1821-1848)Depicted: Newhaven, ScotlandSalted
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David Octavius Hill - Elizabeth Rigby, later Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) c. 1844-45 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Benjamin West - Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) 1776 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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James David Smillie - A Home upon a Hill 1891 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Benjamin West - Prince Octavius 1783 gouache over black c Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rev. Dr. Thomas Guthrie
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rev. Dr. Abraham Capadose
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Thomas Chalmers, D. D.
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Free Church Committee
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Rev. Dr. John Macdonald
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Arbroath Presbytery Group
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Ayr Presbytery
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Rev. Dr. James McCosh
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Arnold Genthe, Untitled ( Telegraph Hill from Nob Hill) , 1906
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Fugitive, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Warning, 19th century
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Arnold Genthe, Untitled ( Nob Hill from Telegraph Hill), 1955 - 1956
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James Linton
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Polar Sea, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Ozema, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Race, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Prairie, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Theft, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Monikins, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Squatter, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Crater, 19th century
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Reverends & John Hamilton
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Husking Bee, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Rescue, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Assault, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Incendiaries, 19th century
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Newhaven Fishermen

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Facing the Light: The Photography of Hill and Adamson
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery houses the main collection of Hill and Adamson's work, as part of the Scottish National Photography ...
J. Paul Getty Museum: Light in the Darkness: The Photographs of Hill and Adamson
Hill, a painter, and Adamson, an engineer, initially teamed up to prepare photographic studies for Hill’s large historical painting commemorating the formation of the Free Church of Sc...
Museum of the City of NewYork: Renewing a Block and the Spirit of Its People: Photographs of Carmel Hill, Harlem by Bill Foley
Foley has also skillfully captured the change in attitudes among the block’s residents, a transformation from despair to hope, pride in accomplishment, and the spirit necessary to make it t...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Body, Text: Selected Works by Gary Hill
The exhibition also includes Hill’s video works Cut Pipe, 1992; Circular Breathing, 1994; Conundrum, 1995–98; Viewer, 1996; Crossbow, 1999; and Wall Piece, 2000. “Gary Hill is undoubtedly one of the most talented artists of his generation. H...
National Museum: Carl Fredrik Hill
The exhibition traces Carl Fredrik Hill's artistic development, from his earliest works, created in Lund in the 1860s, to the expressive drawings from his illness period at the end of his career. Common characteristics and differences ...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Gary Hill: Selected Works 1976 - 2001
An American, living in Seattle, he began his artistic career as a sculptor. The Kunstmuseum now presents a representative survey of Hill’s video pieces. The early videos of the 1970s, which concentrate on formal experimentation, are included a...
Notting Hill Gate Improvements Group: Kensington Koan
Her early work as a sculptor was preoccupied with light as a metaphor for spirit or mind which led her to an interest in science, technology and science fiction. She has designed and made numerous large scale public sculptures in the UK: Wh...
MASS MoCA: MASS MoCA Welcomes MoCI Curator, Superfiction Expert
The presentation will also celebrate ten years of the fictive Museum of Contemporary Ideas on New York's Park Avenue. Arguably the largest contemporary art space in the world, this was the first of many superf...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: John A. and Margaret Hill Collection of American Western Art AND Silver Blossoms, Turquoise Mountains: Southwest Indian Jewelry
As a connoisseur of American art, John Hill collected what he believed in, which was the myth of the American West. It is a myth that has shaped this nation more than any other. From it, comes our sense of magisterial landscapes dwarfing human a...
Grant Hill: Call for Artists: Something All Our Own Scholarship
The Something All Our Own scholarship has been created to provide educational assistance to students interested in pursuing a degree in visual arts. The scholarship is open to high school (and/or GED) graduates, and the students must be enrolled ...
Peterborough Art House: James Tovey: East Hill

-- John Howard Journalist writing in June 2002. Reviewing the previous exhibition A maelstrom of swirling colours has become the perfect backdrop..
-- Peterborough Evening Telegraph 8th November 2001. About the artist <...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: I dreamt of flying: Noguchi Rika
This exhibit will feature about 40 of the artist’s works, including the early To Dive and new large-format prints up to 100 x 250 cm in size made especially for the exhibit. Her series, Rocket Hill (2001-) was taken at the Tanegashima Space Cent...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Cleve Gray, Painter: A Quarter of A Century
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Groundfloor Gallery: Flightpath: Paintings by Janet Haslett
The paintings in this exhibition are largely based on aerial photographs spanning the past three decades of the iconic village of Hill End, north of Sydney. The images are built up in layers, in a constantly refined process of mapping marks in sp...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Double Feature: New Works by Nick Crowe and Gary Hill
Nick Crowe

The New Medium, 2000

This new work by Nick Crowe reveals a fascination with funereal culture on the Web. The New Medium focuses on text messages sent by ...
Ackland Art Museum: Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
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Tate Modern: Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Ranging from film and video to sculpture, the exhibition features works by the following artists: Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller, James Coleman, Stan Douglas,...
Townhouse Gallery: Kairotic: Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Karim Rashid
Putting the two meanings together, one might understand ëkairos; to refer to a passing instant and, finally, a crucial step in the creative process. Given such a premise, artists have been invited to work in the city in the fall, returning in the ...
Union Hill Arts Building: AMERICAN SENTENCES
More inclusive then exclusive, American Sentences joins disciplines, techniques, and visions. Themes are personal and unique. Experimental and aggressive, these artists only connection may be their dedication to creating an art experience. Dis...
Johannesburg Art City: Johannesburg Art City
The project aims to showcase the inner city as the hub and cultural centre of Africa's world class city. JHB ART CITY, the national competition from which artworks will be selected for exhibit, opens new branding opportunities for Johannesburg on ...
Terra Museum of American Art: In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
All proceeds of the exhibition will be donated to Olana State Historic Site, ...
RMIT Gallery: GOODBYE KIND WORLD
The artists are Roseanne Bartley, Lisa Carroll, Susan Cohn, Karen Ferguson, Tony Hanning, Hamish Hill, Ruth Hutchinson, Sharon Muir, Miyuki Nakahara, Humphrey Poland, David Ray, Alex Selenitsch. The curator is Kevin Murray....
Portland Museum of Art: In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church
In Search of the Promised Land comprises 44 paintings, most of them lent by museums and private collectors. Its features some of the artist’s most memorable and monumental canvases including Niagara Falls from the American Side (1867) from the Na...
E. Gordon Gallery: Maria Winiarski: Secrets Whispered in the Night
Mystery also exudes from Maria Winiarski's artwork through the echoes of un-told secrets that rest beneath the surface. Winiarski’s adept use of color creates a dreamlike setting where we are transported to be voyeurs into a world that only exists...
Australian Center for Photography: Stranger Than Truth: Photographs of the Superfictional
From the field of science there are technological demonstrations of telepathy and medical imaging which makes visible the phantom limbs experienced by recent amputees. With the world‚s best collection of posters for films that were never mad...
Dylan Thomas Centre: Another Kind of Eden: Works by John Selway
They are inspired by Selway's own youth - particularly summer holidays in rural Herefordshire - as well as the childhood of Dylan Thomas. Selway explores the closeness of the life and death experiences, and the ecstacy and agony of sexual awake...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: The Art of Documentary
The enthusiasm for documentary photography - the study of people and societies - continues to be important in Scottish practice. This exhibition focuses on groups of photographs by a number of photographers, working in an...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: The Fine Art of Photography
Among the twentieth-century work on show will be photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brant, Roger Fenton, Eve Arnold and Annie Leibovitz. ...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Faux, Foe, Pho: Work from Houston High Schools
Last year's Teen Council Exhibition, Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Work from Houston Area High Schools, featured the works of 29 artists and was accompanied by special programs for high school students. This exhibition will be accompanied by a P...
National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
In other Capitol Hill matters important to the Endowment's interests, earlier this week the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions approved seven Presidential nominees for the National Council on the Humanities. It is h...

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