• Source: Jerome Hill

      • James Jerome Hill II (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist known for his award-winning documentary and experimental films, one of which won him an Academy Award.


      Career


      Hill was the child of railroad executive Louis W. Hill.
      He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
      His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer.
      In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer.
      His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1972), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003.


      Philanthropy


      Hill founded the Jerome Foundation, which gives grants to non-profit arts organizations and artists in Minnesota and New York City. Hill started it as the Avon Foundation in 1964, but after his death it was renamed the Jerome Foundation.
      Among the projects the foundation funds is the American Composers Forum's Jerome Fund for New Music, which supports the creation of new works of music with grants to composers.
      Hill also founded the Camargo Foundation in 1967, which administers an artists residency in Cassis, France.


      Personal life


      Hill was a stakeholder in Sugar Bowl Ski Resort. He had a chalet built at Sugar Bowl and, while living there, paid for and operated "The Magic Carpet", the first aerial tramway on the west coast.


      Filmography (as director)


      1932 La cartomancienne
      1937 Ski Flight, featuring Otto Lang
      1950 Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish
      1950 Cassis
      1957 Albert Schweitzer, won Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
      1961 The Sand Castle with Mabel Mercer
      1964 Open the Door and see all the People
      1965 Magic Umbrella
      1966 Death in the Forenoon
      1968 The Artist's Friend
      1969 Canaries
      1969 Merry Christmas
      1972 Film Portrait, added to the National Film Registry in 2003
      1991 Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum (material from an abandoned project, shot 1950, edited and published by Jonas Mekas)


      References




      External links


      The Jerome Hill Papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.
      Selected Digitized Items of the Jerome Hill Papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.
      Jerome Hill at IMDb
      Jerome Foundation
      Camargo Foundation
      Watch Grandma Moses at Folkstreams
      Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill Sr. Book, Book about Louis W. Hill Sr., son and successor of empire builder James J. Hill, Father of Jerome Hill at Ramsey County Historical Society.

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