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Last Name Mockel

Given Name Henry R.

alt. Names H. R. M. ;

Marriage hospital employee Beverly Mockel (1xxx-1990), Cooperstown ;

Children

Year born 1905 in Berlin, Germany

Year died 1981

Place of death Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, California, USA

Father's occupation publisher in Berlin, N. N. (18xx-1xxx)

Relatives

Education 1911-23 preparatory school (Gymnasium); bookbinding apprentice; 1927-30engineering at City College NY; 1931-5 Grand Central School of Art

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Hunt Institute's 4th Int. Exhibition Bot. Art 1977-8 ; H. M. & Beverly Mockel: Desert Flower Notebook & Hot Air from the Desert (1968) ; Richfield Wildflower Book (1966) ;

Patronage New York Telephone Company ; Bronx School of Art; Santa Barbara Botanic Garden; Cactus & Succulent Journ. 1967; Desert Magazine 1961-5

Collaborators with his wife Beverly Mockel ;

Techniques botanical etching, woodblock, serigraphy, silk screen process (in 38 colours), acrylic, watercolour, and oil painting ;

Sample(s) https://www.rubylane.com/item/680329-1460/Henry-R-Mockel-California-Artist-Desert ;

Archival sources Desert Studio of Henry R. Mockel, California ; Santa Barbara Botanic Garden ; Smithsonian American Art Museum ; Hunt Institute ;

Published sources Lawrence 1964: 52 ; 1968: 172f. ; Bridson 2003: 142 & 177f. ;

other immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1923. New York, Bronx, Maine, "artist-farmer of Cooperstown" NY, 1958 Pioneer Art Gallery, 5686 The Plaza, Twentynine Palms, California.

Further sample: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=10825&-max=25 .

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