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John Anthony
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Cornell University; Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Career
Styles. As an artist, Hartell gives shape and form to those aspects which are least substantial: light, atmosphere and memory. Hartell’s undergraduate studies were in a technical field, the appeal of art being a secondary interest at first. John Hartell took his bachelor"s degree, architecture from Cornell University in 1925, where he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
He was then selected for a graduate fellowship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
John practiced his art during these years, and continued to do so during the next forty years while teaching architecture at Clemson College and the University of Illinois and, after 1930, back on the Hill at Cornell, where he taught art as well. Once in Ithaca, Hartell sought to bring art into the lives of both Cornell students and Cornell faculty, including the organization of an art exhibit in the Willard Straight Memorial featuring hundreds of art works.
In 1936, he illustrated “Over in the Meadow. An old Nursery Rhyme.” During that period he was commissioned to design a number of residences.
He also partnered with a New York architect on buildings for the World"s Fair of 1939.
The University asked John to serve on the Committee for Fine Arts in 1941. Hartell remained active with his undergraduate literary pursuits, writing for the last Cornell Widow for 1942. The alumni writing effort was conceived of by Widow editor, Knox B. Burger, son of Hartell’s fraternity brother and fellow Irving Literary Society member, Carl B. Burger, former Widow art editors
After his retirement from teaching in 1968, he painted full-time.
Much of his imagery came from the lakes and woods of upstate New York, where he lived, and from the eastern Long Island he knew as a boy. Hartell died at his home in Ithaca, New York in 1995.
