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Landscape and marine painter, mainly in watercolour, printmaker and illustrator. Born at Greatneck, Long Island, America, with British parents, Hilder was initially educated in Morristown, New Jersey. After settling in England, he studied illustration and printmaking at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art under Edmund Sullivan for three years in the 1920s. He was later to lecture at that College between the wars, also at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, Royal College of Art and Farnham School of Art. During World War II Hilder served in the Army, concerned with camouflage. He was involved in several fine art publication companies, was a pioneer silkscreen printmaker in Britain, did extensive advertising work, notably for Shell-Mex and BP and illustrated many books.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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