GEORGE DANIL HOFFMAN 

EBENEZER 

LUTHERAN CHURCH 

1830 -1980 COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA 

 SIGNED PRINTS & ORIGINAL DRAWING IN FOLIO ENVELOPE WITH DEDICATION TO GEORGE & MARCIA

THANKS FOR REVITALIZING ME!

THE FOLIO HAS 4 PRINTS SIGNED WITH PENCIL AND THERE IS A DUPLICATE  OF NE TRANSEPT WINDOW UNSIGNED.

THIS  DRAWING IS IN PENCIL IS SIGNED 

OLD LYME CHURCH NEVER PUBLISHED?

TOTAL 6 PCS

Just think it was a gift to George and Marsha as they were from Westbrook CT and  He stayed with them according to the inscription on inside of folio for 9 days JUNE 1983

 MEASURES 11 X 14

In the late 1950s George Dan'l moved to Alabama, where his subjects included General John B. Medaris, former head of the Redstone Missile Program; Rex Morthland, president of the Bankers' Association of America, and Mayor J. Smitherman of Selma. As his reputation spread, so did the number of subjects and locations. In 1963, he moved to SC.

     The list of South Carolina notables painted by George Dan'l Hoffman includes: Joan Celest Singletary (his first SC subject); governors George Bell Timmerman, Gordon McLeod, and John C. West; Dr. Maceo Nance, president of SC State College in Orangeburg, SC; H. George Anderson, Bishop of ELCA; Bishop William Beckham, Upper Diocese of SC; Henry Cauthen of SC ETV; Admiral and Mrs. Croft Jennings; Judge John Grimball; the Clinch Belsers, Senator Hyman Rubin; and Dr. "Pat" Paterson, President of the University of South Carolina.

     Mr. Hoffman's appreciation of nature and the outdoors inspired many paintings of flowers and landscapes. His few small portrait-sculptures were among his favorite accomplishments. His love of nature also inspired him to establish a Nature Scene Award administered by the SC ETV Endowment of SC to be presented to school children and others whose projects involve preservation and appreciation of nature. On February 17, 1999, he presented checks to the representatives of four schools. In conjunction with these awards, he presented an exhibit of more than fifty examples of his life work in art and music.

      In 1979, Mr. Hoffman was commissioned to do a portfolio of pencil renderings of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, where he sang in the choir, and later served as Renovation Consultant and Preservation Consultant for the Austin pipe organ.

      His work as a portrait painter was still flourishing in 1991, when at the age of 76, he painted a posthumous portrait of George M. Lee, Jr., and did pencil drawings of Prof. C. Brian Honess.

     Galleries that handled his work in New York include the IBM Gallery, Steinway Hall, Galerie St. Etienna [sic], Hammer Gallery, The National Academy of Design, Newton Galleries, and the Carnegie. Exhibitions of his work have been held in Buffalo, NY; Clinton, Iowa; Columbia, SC; High Point, NC; and Waterloo, Iowa. His paintings hang in galleries and private collections in more than 18 states.

 and also the member of Oil Painters of America