Hilda Ward
{{Short description|American painter}}
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Hilda Ward (1878–1950) American Expressionist painter and author. She studied with Robert Henri and exhibited in the 1910 New York Exhibition of Independent Artists and the 1913 Armory Show. Ward also wrote A Girl and the Motor.
Early life
Hilda Ward was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the daughter of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward.{{cite book|author=James Schuyler|title=Selected Art Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKSk1TO99KUC&pg=PA100|year=1998|publisher=David R. Godine Publisher|isbn=978-1-57423-076-5|page=100}}
Ward studied in New York City with Robert Henri.Petteys, Chris, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aIlUAAAAMAAJ Dictionary of Women Artists], G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985. {{ISBN|978-0-8161-8456-9}}. Her friends included William Glackens and John French Sloan.
Career
File:Hilda Ward, The Hound, 1910.jpg
File:Hilda Ward, The Tenant's Dog, ca. 1910.png
Ward exhibited at the 1910 New York Exhibition of Independent Artists, showing The Tenant's Dog.{{cite journal|last1=Henri|first1=Robert|title=The New York Exhibition of Independent Artists|journal=The Craftsman|date=May 1910|volume=18|issue=2|pages=160–172|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=turn&entity=DLDecArts.hdv18n02.p0015&id=DLDecArts.hdv18n02&isize=M|accessdate=20 January 2016}} Ward was also one of the artists who exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913. The show included two of her pieces, The Hound and The Kennels,Brown, Milton W., The Story of the Armory Show, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 298. one of which was a pastel and the other a drawing.
Ward was the author of a 1908 book entitled A Girl and the Motor, which chronicled her experiences as a woman driver and mechanic during the early years of the Automobile Age.{{cite book|author=Georgine Clarsen|title=Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbuOiq0YEKYC&pg=PA15|date=1 September 2011|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0514-8|pages=15–17}} She was, upon occasion, to include automobiles in the paintings.
Personal life
Ward lived in Roslyn, Long Island. She died in 1950.
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:Students of Robert Henri
Category:19th-century American women painters
Category:20th-century American women painters