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Jerome Hill (1905–1972)
Jerome Hill was an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, painter, photographer, composer, and supporter of the arts and artists in the United States and Europe.
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Jerome lived in a wide variety of places: Paris; New York City and Bridgehampton, New York; Sugar Bowl, California, and Cassis, in the South of France. The Jerome Foundation (a grantmaking entity originally established as the Avon Foundation in 1964), acknowledges these Minnesota and New York ties, while the Camargo Foundation (established by Jerome in 1967) occupies Jerome Hill's properties in Cassis, and is now used as a residency center for artists and scholars.
Jerome Hill died in 1972 from cancer. He left behind a wide circle of friends on both sides of the Atlantic, his partner Charles Rydell (1931–2018) and an extended and loving family. To this day, the program and values of the Jerome Foundation remain a tribute to Jerome’s artistic and humanistic concerns.
A fuller biographical essay about Jerome Hill’s life by Mary Ann Caws, Jerome Hill: Living the Arts, was commissioned in 2005 as part of the Centennial of Jerome Hill’s birth.
