Background
Landacre, Paul Hambleton was born on July 9, 1893 in Columbus. Ohio. Son of Walter Alexander and Clara (Hambleton) Landacre.
Landacre, Paul Hambleton was born on July 9, 1893 in Columbus. Ohio. Son of Walter Alexander and Clara (Hambleton) Landacre.
Student Ohio State University, 1914-1916.
Wood engraver, since 1926. Instructor at the Otis Art Institute, since 1956. 5 books illustrated listed in Fifty Books of the Year, 1932, 33, 34 (2), 53.
Prints in permanent collections of New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, Boston Museum of Art, Rochester (New York) Memorial Art Gallery, Los Angeles Public Library.
University of California, San Francisco Museum. Springfield (Massachusetts) Library, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Library of Congress, Washington.
Honolulu Academy Artist Seattle Museum, Pomona College.
Mills College, Columbus (O.) Public Library, National Academy of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Awards: 1st prize Print Club of Philadelphia, 1933, 36, 44. Honorary mention, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1936, Print Club of Philadelphia, 1939. Purchase prize, Northwest Printmakers, 1937, 40, 44.
Fifty Prints of the Year, 1930, 31, 33.
Open award. California Society Etchers, 1939 and 40. Purchase prize. Library of Congress, 1943-1946, 53, Associate American Artists award.
Member National Academy, American Artists Group. Society American Graphic Artists, Xylon.
Married Margaret McCreery, July 9, 1925.