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George Van Hook

George Van Hook was raised in Pennsylvania, lived and worked as an artist in the Bay Area of California, then returned to the east coast to settle in Cambridge, New York, northeast of Albany. He attended Oberlin College and earned his B.A. in Art at Humboldt State University. Van Hook was featured in En Plein Aire Magazine in Oct/Nov 2012, a cover article for American Artist Magazine in March of 1989 and again in December 2001.

“Late Summer on the Battenkill”
Oil on Canvas
29 x 23.5


Accession No.2010.039.001Made byGeorge Van Hook

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