William Hofmann

William Hofmann (born 30 March 1968) was an American artist celebrated for his artistic portrayals of the Pacific coastlines and the landscapes of the American West. Hoffman, a self-taught artist, embraced painting later in life after his first visit to a gallery. Initially focusing on detailed seascapes capturing tranquil coastal moments, he later transitioned to Western themes. Hoffman died in 1995 in Big Bear Lake, CA.

Books

The works he illustrated include:

• The First Easter (1959) by Peter Marshall
• Five World Biographies (1961) edited by Leon Edel, Elizabeth S. White, Madolyn W. Brown
• Four English Biographies Harcourt Brace & World, Inc, (1961) by J. B. Priestley, and O. B. Davis
• The Blue of Capricorn (1962) by Eugene Burdick
• Indian Uprising, Houghton Mifflin (1962) by George Cory Franklin
• The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian]] (1962) by Walter O'Meara
• Hero of Trafalgar: the Story of Lord Nelson (1963) by A.B.C. Whipple
• Backtrack (1965) by Milton Lott
• Time Was, Folkways Press (1965) by John Foster West
• Phaëthon (1966) by Merrill Pollack
• Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (1966) by Bernard Evslin
• Poems to Remember, Macmillan Company (1967) by Dorothy Petitt. Trade Paperback.

Dust jackets

He also illustrated the dust jackets of:

• Kings Will Be Tyrants (1959) by Ward Hawkins
• The Last Portage: The Biography of a Man Caught Between Two Worlds of the Frontier—Born a White, Raised an Indian (1962) by Walter O'Meara
• The Levantines, Houghton Mifflin (1963) by Fausta Cialente, Isabel Quigly (trans.)
• Backtrack (1965), by Milton Lott
• The Mountbattens - The Last Royal Success Story, Random House (1965) by Alden Hatch
• Avalon, Hodder and Stoughton (1966) by Anya Seton
• World in a Glass - A View of Our Century From the Novels of John Dos Passos, Houghton Mifflin (1966) by John Dos Passos
• A Tract of Time (1966) by Smith Hempstone
• Jubilee (1966) by Margaret Walker
• Earth Abides Houghton Mifflin (1969) by George R. Stewart
• Operation Destruct, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969) by Christopher Nicole
• Logan's Run, Dell paperback (1969) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
• Where the Cavern Ends, Holt Rinehart & Winston (1970) by Christopher Nicole (ISBN 9780030851155)

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