Louise D. Clement-Hoff

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Louise D. Clement-Hoff (June 4, 1926 –Jan 31, 2020) was an American painter and educator who specialized in oil painting, pastel and drawing of human figures and still lifes. [1]

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Early life and education

Louise Darling Clement-Hoff [2] was born to John George and Eva Adele Ulett in Philadelphia and attended William Penn High School. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art (now known as the University of the Arts) and continued her art studies at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Barnes Foundation. [3] [4]

Career

Clement-Hoff’s teaching career included 18 years of figure drawing classes at Woodmere Art Museum, figure drawing, still life composition and painting at Hussian School of Art; and more than 64 years of painting, sculpture and drawing at the Fleisher Art Memorial, all in Philadelphia. She also taught oil painting to the parents of students enrolled in Fleisher’s Saturday Young Artists Program [5] and at West Chester University [6] in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Clement-Hoff was a painter and draftsperson. [3] Several museums and galleries exhibited her paintings throughout the Delaware Valley during her lifetime, and her work is in art collections in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. In 1998, West Chester University's McKinney Gallery presented her retrospective exhibition. [4] [6] The Atlantic City Art Center hosted an exhibit of her works in oil painting, pastel, and drawing in 2000. [3]

In 1988, her work was represented in an exhibit of prints at the Philadelphia Free Library titled The Pride, the Prejudice,” which examined the portrayal of Blacks in various media over the last 300 years. The show included works by Howard N. Watson, Dox Thrash, Samuel J. Brown Jr., Varnette Honeywood, Cal Massey and Barbara Bullock. [7]

Posthumous recognition

Clement-Hoff work also featured in Daphne Landis's 2003 book Speaking for Themselves: The Artists of Southeastern Pennsylvania which described it as reflecting an interest in what is "rampantly alive". [8]

At a ceremony led by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, the Fleisher Art Memorial selected Clement-Hoff to receive the 2015 Founder’s Award in recognition of her lasting impact on the school. [9] [10]

Clement-Hoff's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum. [11]

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  1. ↑ "We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s". Issuu. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  2. ↑ "Louise Darling Clement-Hoff". DeBaptiste Funeral Homes. West Chester, PA.
  3. 1 2 3 Cook, Bonnie L. (7 February 2020). "Louise D. Clement-Hoff, artist and teacher at Fleisher Art Memorial, dies at 93". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2020-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. 1 2 Jones, Ayana (7 February 2020). "Louise D. Clement-Hoff, 93, artist and educator". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  5. ↑ "West Chester Resident, Beloved Artist Dies at 93". vista.today. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. 1 2 "Artists oral histories, Senior Artists Initiative Philadelphia, PA LHoff". www.seniorartists.org. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
  7. ↑ "Black life depicted in exhibit at Library: Opening is Friday; Black artists shown". Philadelphia Tribune. 8 January 1988. p. 6_C. ProQuest   532966730.
  8. ↑ Landis, Daphne S. (2003). Speaking for Themselves: The Artists of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Chester County Historical Society. ISBN   978-0-929706-20-7. OCLC   55088507.[ page needed ]
  9. ↑ "Louise Clement-Hoff Receives 26th Founder's Award". Fleisher Art Memorial. 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  10. ↑ "Obituary for Louise Darling Clement-Hoff". DeBaptiste Funeral Homes.
  11. ↑ "We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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