Henry Clarence Pitz (1895-1976) was born and died in Philadelphia. During his career as an artist, he was identified as an illustrator in the Brandywine tradition and as a follower of Howard Pyle. He illustrated books, including "Amigo: Circus Horse" (1955), and was also a well respected teacher of drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Newark School of Art.
In 1948 Henry Pitz went to the circus in New York and Philadelphia and detailed what he saw in a series of drawings that seem fresh and contemporary more than fifty years later. Pitz follwed the Ringling and other circuses as they came to town and changed war-weary lives. |
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