Anna Althea Hills
Anna Althea Hills (January 28, 1882 – June 13, 1930) was an American plein air painter who specialized in impressionist landscapes of the Southern California coast. Hills attended Olivet College, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. After her schooling, she worked for Arthur Wesley Dow.
Also recorded as Anna Hills · Anna A. Hills
Anna Althea Hills
- Name
- Anna Hills
- Birth Name
- Anna Althea Hills
- Born
- 28 January 1882
- Birthplace
- Ravenna, Ohio
- Died
- 13 June 1930
- Place of death
- Laguna Beach, California
- Known for
- Impressionist landscapes Founding of the Laguna Beach Art Museum
- Occupation
- Painter
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- landscape
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Anna Althea Hills. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
In this article
Biography
Biography
Hills traveled in Holland and England, attended the Academie Julian and studied with John Noble Barlow. She spent time in Lamorna Cove, home to many artists in the turn of the 20th century, including Samuel Lamorna Birch, and was with her brother, Willie Hills, at Inn cottage in the 1911 England Census. After returning to the United States, Hills traveled to the west coast and she switched from interior figures to impressionist landscapes. Hills settled in Laguna Beach, California where she opened a studio and taught. Besides her painting, Hills was known for community activism. She was involved with the Presbyterian church and ran the Sunday school. For six years, she was president of the Laguna Beach Art Association (founded in 1918). In addition, Hills urged her friend, the respected artist and critic Jennie V. Cannon, to create at her summer home in Carmel-by-the-Sea a similar organization and art gallery, which was eventually founded in 1927 as the Carmel Art Association and adopted verbatim the Laguna Beach preamble: “To advance the knowledge of and interest in art; to create a spirit of co-operation and fellowship between painter and public.” Two years earlier Hills had been honored with a reception in Carmel.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Anna Hills • Birth Name — Anna Althea Hills • Born — 28 January 1882 • Birthplace — Ravenna, Ohio • Died — 13 June 1930 • Place of death — Laguna Beach, California • Known for — Impressionist landscapes Founding of the Laguna Beach Art Museum • Occupation — Painter
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Ravenna.
Birth place
Laguna Beach.
Death place
Awards
• Bronze medal, Panama–California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 • Bronze medal, California State Fair, 1919 • Landscape Prize, Laguna Beach Art Association, 1922 & 1923
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Anna Althea Hills, revision 1337228474 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Westphal, Ruth Lily. Plein air painters of California, the southland. Derus Fine Art Books. 144–148. October 1982. 978-0-9610520-0-3.
- 2.Stern, Jean. Master of Light: Plein-Air Painting in California 1890-1930. Irvine Museum. 2002. 9780971409248.
- 3.Trenton, Patricia. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. University of California Press. 68. November 27, 1995. 978-0-520-20203-0.
- 4.Bond, Ralph C. Discovering California's Impressionists. Orange Coast Magazine. 15. 4. 192–193. April 1989.
- 5.Edwards, Robert W. Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, Vol. 1. East Bay Heritage Project. 159, 174, 208–211, 224–225, 480, 689 An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website (http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/10aa/10aa557.htm Webarchive. 2016-04-29. 9781467545679.
- 6.The Oakland Tribune, 22 February 1925, p. 4-S.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 29 September 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Ann TrailArtist
- Anna AbrahamsArtist
- Anna AiryArtist
- Anna Alma-TademaArtist
- Anna AncherArtist
- Anna Bacherini PiattoliArtist
- Anna Barbara BansiArtist
- Anna Bilińska-BohdanowiczArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Anna Althea Hills?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.