Artist. William Hollingsworth was a prominent young artist in the 1930s and early '40s whose career was cut short by his suicide in 1944. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago (1930-1934), Hollingsworth returned to his native Mississippi, where he produced a large number of watercolors and oil paintings, paintings shown at exhibitions throughout the country. In addition to winning the William Tuthill prize at the International Watercolor Exhibition in Chicago in 1937, Hollingsworth won awards at the IBM Exhibition at the New York World's Fair, the Chicago Arts Club, the Southern States Art League, and the National Watercolor Society. In her book on Hollingsworth, Eudora Welty wrote the following: "With what knowledge, yes, but with what tenderness he painted! It was not a tenderness that stood in the way and blurred what his eye told him; rather it must have come of ever-increasing awareness. It opened some door further down the perspective, and showed him new things -- those relationships he has expressed between grass and sky, between roof and roadway, between rain and the upstreaming smoke from a cabin."
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Artist. William Hollingsworth was a prominent young artist in the 1930s and early '40s whose career was cut short by his suicide in 1944. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago (1930-1934), Hollingsworth returned to his native Mississippi, where he produced a large number of watercolors and oil paintings, paintings shown at exhibitions throughout the country. In addition to winning the William Tuthill prize at the International Watercolor Exhibition in Chicago in 1937, Hollingsworth won awards at the IBM Exhibition at the New York World's Fair, the Chicago Arts Club, the Southern States Art League, and the National Watercolor Society. In her book on Hollingsworth, Eudora Welty wrote the following: "With what knowledge, yes, but with what tenderness he painted! It was not a tenderness that stood in the way and blurred what his eye told him; rather it must have come of ever-increasing awareness. It opened some door further down the perspective, and showed him new things -- those relationships he has expressed between grass and sky, between roof and roadway, between rain and the upstreaming smoke from a cabin."
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