Mississippi artist, Marie Atkinson Hull (1890-1980) is known for her landscape and still-life oils and watercolors. She also created prints and sculptures, wrote, and taught music and art.
Hull was born in Summit, Mississippi on September 28, 1890. She studied music at Belhaven College, but became increasingly interested in art. She enrolled into the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1912 and returned to Mississippi to teach at Hillman College. In 1915, Hull left Hillman to teach out of her house and, in 1917, married Jackson architect, Emmett
Johnston Hull. They lived in Jackson’s Belhaven neighborhood for many years.
Her work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; American Watercolor Society; Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio; Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida; Southeastern Annuals, Atlanta; Delta Annuals, Memphis; All-American National Shows, New York City; Autumn Salon, Paris; New York World’s Fair (1939) and the San Francisco Golden Gate Exposition (1939). A major exhibition of her work was held at the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2000.
Her influence on the world of Mississippi art was honored by the declaration of Marie Hull day, October 22, 1975, by Mississippi governor, William Waller. She died in Jackson, Mississippi on November 21, 1980.