| Hilda Terry |
Article Index for Hilda |
Website Links For Hilda |
Information About ™Hilda Terry |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HILDA TERRY | |
| 1914 births | |
| american comics writers | |
| golden age comics creators | |
| american writers | |
| 2006 deaths | |
| women in comics | |
|
Hilda Terry d’Alessio (a.k.a. Hilda Terry) began her career as a painter, studying at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League. In addition to her studies with League instructor Homer Boss, she studied painting privately with Vincent Drennan, Herman Rednick, Alphonse Oddo, George Byron Browne, Oscar Newman, lake Spencer and finally, Gregory d’Alessio, whom she married in 1938. Entering the free-lance market, she sold her cartoons to three major magazines on her first outing, an unprecedented achievement attesting to the mastery of her instructors. The first to caricature the foibles of the adolescent female, Hilda Terry’s comic strip Teena was internationally syndicated from 1941 through 1964, continuing to appear in Sweden, Australia and South America for years thereafter. Ms. d'Alessio taught at the New School for Social Research and at New York—Phoenix School of Art & Design in the 1960’s. Her painting of the Fulton Fish Market was shown at a one-woman, one-painting exhibition in the Woolworth Building. Her accomplishments were acknowledged by the National Cartoonists Society’s Ruben Award for Best Cartoonist Animator in 1979. She was nominated in 1976, 1977 and 1988. As of October 2005 she continues to teach occasional classes at The Art Students League in New York City. Ms. d’Alessio employs the methods formulated by her late husband through his thirty years as a popular Art Students League instructor. Exercises designed to sharpen the student’s basic drawing skills are monitored by insightful guidance, developing and encouraging the student’s individual expression. The extent to which the d’Alessios helped each other over the years, with never a hint of influence imposed on the individuality of each other’s work and style, was the keynote of their tradition of teaching, a tradition which Hilda Terry d’Alessio continues today. Her husband, Gregory d'Alessio, was men's president of the Art Students League of New York. Gregory died in 1994. She maintains a non-profit foundation at the house she shared with her husband at 8 Henderson Place ( 8hendersonplace.org ) |
|
|