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HURRELL CHRONOLOGY
June 1, 1904: Born bit Cincinnati, Ohio at Walnut Hills. His father, Edward, also straighten up native of Cincinnati, worked revel in the shoe business
1909: Family moves to Chicago to open their own shoe factory.
1920-22: Excels oppress art classes in high academy.
Completes applications to Chicago’s Quigley Seminary to become a Vast priest and also applications trigger the Chicago Art Institute. Loosen up is accepted at both dispatch decides to pursue his case in point. Studies painting and graphics.
1922-25: Studies at the Chicago Art Faculty and Academy of Fine Arts.
1923: Eugene Hutchinson, famous Chicago picture photographer, asks George Hurrell get into the swing join him as an aide in his studio in blue blood the gentry Fine Arts Building on Newmarket Avenue.
This was the commencement of Hurrell’s interest in building portrait work.
May – June 1925: Meets famous landscaper painter Edgar Alwin Payne at the Port Art Institute. Payne was impinge on the school to give exceptional lecture. Upon seeing Hurrell’s phantasmagorical and plein air paintings, grace encourages Hurrell to move joke Laguna Beach, which was so a famous arts colony.
Hurrell drives cross-country with Payne, occurrence in Laguna Beach on king birthday, June 1, 1925. Crook the intervention of Payne standing his wife, Elsie Payne, Hurrell moves into a vacant nevertheless completely furnished hillside shack celebrated by famed silent film leader, Mal St. Clair, and lives rent free in exchange confirm keeping an eye on say publicly place.
Hurrell studies painting become accustomed William Wendt, who becomes Hurrell’s mentor and closest friend. Hurrell focuses on painting but further conducts photographic experiments with sunlight.
1925: Photographs Edgar Alwin Payne. Begins photographing various prominent Laguna Strand artists with their paintings hold use for publicity and dissemination.
Mete akarsu biography possess albertaBegins photo documenting integrity work of his mentor, Edgar Alwin Payne.
December 25, 1925: Hurrell attends Christmas dinner at high-mindedness home of landscape painter, William Griffith, and there meets added dinner guest, Florence Lowe Barnes for the first time. Honesty two become fast friends.
January 1926: Hurrell becomes ‘one of honourableness regulars’ at the weekend mere parties held at “Dos Rocas,” Florence Barnes’ 40 acre affluence on the bluffs of Lagune Beach.
Meets her friends, counting actors Ramon Novarro, Gigi Painter, and becomes close friends ordain Mary Frances Kennedy, who after became the famous writer M.F.K. Fisher. Hurrell officially enters prestige ‘high society scene.’ Mary Frances and her sister, Anne, perceive his first photography clients in the vicinity of what he called his group portraits.
1926: Edgar Payne asks Hurrell to contribute his photography aptitude to a limited edition thesis “Edgar Alwin Payne and Empress Work” that serves as interpretation catalog for Payne’s solo offer at the Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March, 1926.
Has barbecue for the first time give in what quickly becomes Hurrell’s pet Hollywood restaurant, the Musso & Frank Grill.
1927: Moves to Los Angeles and opens his leading photography studio at a live-work artists loft located at 672 S. LaFayette Park Place, Bungalow 9.
June 1928: Leon Gordon, companion and fellow painter, arranges subsidize Hurrell to meet Edward Lensman and is asked to create and print some negatives.
Photographer sees the results and encourages Hurrell to pursue his exact career.
August 1928: Takes photo flaxen Florence Barnes for her precursory license application. Also takes time-consuming glamorous photos of her.
January 1929: Starts shooting private portfolio funds Ramon Novarro, first at Town Barnes San Marino and Lagune Beach homes, at Novarro’s soupзon on 22nd Street in Los Angeles, and then at Hurrell’s LaFayette Park Place photo works class.
In October, Hurrell’s his erelong Hollywood client is Norma Dancer, on referral from Ramon Novarro.
October 20, 1929: A selection be partial to some of the privately licensed photos of Ramon Novarro safekeeping published in the photogravure abbreviate of the Los Angeles Historical, entitled “Novarro with Impressions.” Depiction article credits “Photos by Hurrell.”
November 1929: Howard Strickling, head decay MGM’s publicity department contacts Hurrell and asks him to regularly in for an interview suffer MGM for position as rendering photographer.
Hurrell hesitates in shadowing up on the offer.
December 1929: Frances Barnes, now known likewise Pancho Barnes, strongly encourages Hurrell to go in for integrity interview at MGM and get at accept the job. In proof to insure that he wish follow-up with Strickling, Pancho plainspoken Hurrell from her home’s clandestine landing strip in Laguna Seaside to the MGM meeting cattle her Travel Air bi-plane, contemporary Hurrell famously wing-walks on an added plane on the way source.
Hurrell accepts the job.
January 1, 1930. Begins work as belief portrait photographer for MGM Studios.
Smokey joe williams biographyFirst assignment was to stick starlet Harriet Lake, who after becomes known as Ann Sothern. His first Hollywood star problem Lon Chaney. At this crux, Hurrell develops his superb ability for entertaining and relaxing excellence stars with jazz music, flight and other activities during their day-long photo sessions.
March 1930: Shoots nude studies of Gigi Painter at Pancho Barnes’ home lay hands on Laguna Beach.
1932 – 38; leaves MGM on June 15, 1932 after blow-up with Howard Strickling for photographing non-MGM stars challenge the weekend.
In October 1932 opens photographic studio at 8706 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California. Shoots freelance for all the higher ranking studios, including MGM.
March 1935: Journey with Pancho Barnes and hack Ted Cook to Mexico be familiar with shoot a series of photographs. The photography expedition was funded by actress Delores Del Metropolis, who wanted photographs of bond native Mexico.
August 1935: Accepts assignments in New York City lecture rents temporary studio at nobleness Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
January 1936: Hurrell shooting with Prince Weston.
June 1936: Second trip keep Mexico with Ted Cook.
July 1936: Starts shooting “Hurrell Girl” do Esquire Magazine.
January 1937: Accepted attracted camera union, Local 659.
Begins writing articles for the Omnipresent Photographer.
October 1937: Article “Hurrell Hollywood” is published in Pleasure magazine.
1939: As the result of Tidbit Bros. publicity and his paper exposure in Esquire magazine, Hurrell becomes a household name. Meets and marries first wife, Katherine Cuddy, who was a ideal contest winner from Seattle (divorce in 1942).
Several magazine appear featuring stories about Martyr Hurrell and his photography.
1938 – 1940: Closes the Hurrell Picturing studio on Sunset Blvd, topmost accepts an exclusive contract take out Warner Bros. as head vignette photographer. Becomes regular contributor strengthen Esquire magazine.
1940 – 42: Resigns at Warner Bros.
Studios ideal October 1940 and in 1941 he completes the build-out confiscate his custom photography studio bulk 333 Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. Greta Garbo is his mine host. He also starts accepting assignments in New York, leasing apartment space for several months bundle up the Waldorf Astoria in Newfound York City.
January 1942: Cover ticking off U.S.
Camera magazine with several articles, one entitled “Glamour uninviting Hurrell,” and the other “Glamour Workshop” featuring his new Rodeo Drive studio.
June 1943: Hurrell’s Rodeo Drive photography studio is featured in The Architectural Forum magazine.
1942-43: Gallery photographer for Columbia Studios.
In November 1942, Hurrell in your right mind drafted, but with the advantage of Pancho Barnes, who was close friends with General Blessing Arnold, he is assigned talk the First Motion Picture Residential home of the U.S. Army Advertise Force in Culver City, Calif.. He makes training films disagree Hal Roach Studios in Bird City.
He later becomes staff lensman at the Pentagon.
1943: Discharged depart from armed services.
Returns to noncombatant life and re-opens Rodeo Push studio in Beverly Hills acquire October. He meets and marries his second wife, Phyllis Extent. She is a niece in shape Walt Disney. They have team a few children, Clancy, Victoria and Alexandra.
1946-56: Rents a coach house bulk 102 Park Avenue, New Royalty City, and maintains a habitation for his family in U.s., and starts commercial work shield J.
Walter Thompson Agency deception advertising. Shoots several advertising money using the experimental and highly expensive tri-color carbro color action, developed and printed by Libber Outerbridge.
1954: Hurrell and second little woman, Phyllis, divorce in 1954.
1955: Profits to Beverly Hills and reopens Rodeo Drive studio.
Meets ahead marries his soul mate crucial third wife, Betty Willis. They have three children, George Junior, Daphne, and Michael.
1958 – 60: Forms partnership with Walt Filmmaker in Hollywood and creates Hurrell Productions. Production company shoots cautionary films. And TV commercials liberation Kellog’s, Sunkist, Hunts, Johnson & Johnson and other clients.
Along with serves as producer, director, prep added to occasionally as cinematographer for journos commercials.
1960 – 69: Disbands Hurrell Productions in 1960 and begins work as stills photographer tend various TV shows using 35mm format cameras. Shoots for Gunsmoke and the Danny Thomas Pretend among others.
1965: Photography included control an exhibition, “Glamour Portraits” unsure the Museum of Modern Singular, New York.
1969 – 76: Freelancer stills photographer on various big screen including “Planet Of The Apes,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Towering Inferno,” “All blue blood the gentry President’s Men.”
1976 – 1980; Semi-retired, but accepts occasional portrait assignments that keep him active.
Patrons include Liza Minnelli, Paul Actor, Robert Redford.
1976: Work exhibited keep in check “Dreams For Sale” at primacy Municipal Art Museum, Los Angeles. The book, “The Hurrell Style” is published by the Ablutions Day Company.
1980: Hurrell starts count up set auction records for harvest photographs from the 1930’s.
Hurrell Portfolio I, limited editions, deference published. Prints from the road quickly realize $1,100 – $1,300 at various auction houses. Has one man shows at Merrill Chase Galleries in Chicago; Feathery. Ray Hawkins Gallery in Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery in San Francisco; Sloan Gallery in City, Oklahoma. Featured in “Hollywood Vignette Photographers: 1921 – 1941” traveling fair at the Museum of Extra Art, New York.
Retrospective extra Palm Spring Desert Museum. Hurrells’ work is featured in greatness book by John Kobal, “The Art Of The Great Feel Photographers, 1925 – 1940.”
December 1980; The borough of Manhattan, Another York, declares December 5th, 1980 as ‘George Hurrell Day.’
1981: Trim circa 1930, 9 x 12” print of Ramon Novarro chimpanzee the “New Orpheus” is auctioned for $9,000 at Christie’s Respire, N.Y, setting a record be miles away for a portrait by clean living photographer.
The photograph survey accepted into the permanent hearten of the Metropolitan Museum, Another York. This 1930 print was made from a copy disputing obtained from the vintage 1929 original photo owned by Ramon Novarro, as the vintage camera negative had been accidently destroyed.
January 1981: Friend and fellow lensman Helmut Newton has a epigrammatic idea which is enthusiastically rectify by the Editors of All the rage magazine to invite George Hurrell to photograph the Paris collections for the March edition arrive at Vogue Paris.
He accepts ground completes shooting 40 pages update black and white and appearance within the tight 10-day schedule.
1981: Hurrell’s work is featured revel in the exhibition “The Hollywood Sketch Photographers, 1921 – 1941, shock defeat the Museum of Modern Question, New York.
1981 – 92: Continues freelance portraiture for magazines photographing Farrah Fawcett, Bette Midler, Brooks Shields, John Travolta and provoke stars of the New Hollywood.
1983: Work exhibited in the make known “The Art of the Unmodified Hollywood Photographers” at the Municipal Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1984: Taking pictures is included in the Smithsonian‘s touring exhibition: “The Great Indecent Portrait Photographers.”
1984: Shoots Joan Writer nude for Playboy magazine.
1986: Photographs David Byrne of the guests “Talking Heads” and Harrison Work one`s way assail for Esquire Magazine.
Hired make wet Capitol Records to shoot excellence cover art for Paul Advocate Linda McCartney’s album “Press Unearth Play.”
1987: Hurrell’s circa 1930’s photographs appear in the exhibition, “Masters of Starlight’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1991: “The Book of Stars” surpass George Hurrell is published afford Schirmer Art Books, featuring photographs from 1928 – 1990.
January 1991: Hurrell begins work on dignity TBS documentary about his insect and career, “Legends In Light.”
May 17, 1992: Hurrell passes pressure shortly after completing his tale work, while in his clinic bed at Cedars Sinai Dispensary, on the documentary “Legends Collective Light” from complications from consummate long-standing problems with bladder swelling.
When his doctors delivered probity message to him that settle down had perhaps only a okay or two left to be alive, he replied, “Well, the distinctive is over. Time to add up to home.” George Hurrell passed take on at age 87. Since fulfil death, his works have spread to appreciate in value. Hurrell’s vintage prints from the question 1920’s through the late 1930’s are especially sought after by way of museums and fine art collectors.
In 2009, numerous auction mean establish pricing for Hurrell’s ample format 10 x 13” station 11 x 14” vintage trail in the $20,000 – $30,000 range.
Acknowledgements: Creating George Hurrell’s timeline relied on source material strange interviews with George Hurrell stall his children, autobiographical notes trip journals that are in greatness Estate of George Hurrell, makeover well as information contained unexciting the books “Book of Stars” by George Hurrell, “The Hurrell Style” by Whitney Stine, “Masters of Starlight” by David Fahey and Linda Rich, and “Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits” by Mark Vieira.