Margo Hoff

Place: Tulsa

Born: 1910

Death: 2008

Biography:

Margo Hoff was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1910. She was an American painter. Hoff was born into a large family and began making art at an early age. She was educated at Tulsa Central High School and Tulsa University. She studied art at the National Academy of Art in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, and Hull House. During the 1950s, she exhibited paintings and prints in shows around the US and in 1955 held an individual show at the Wildenstein Galleries in Paris. In 1960, she moved to live in New York City, where her work was frequently shown. Her Chicago paintings were typical of mid-century modern urbanism. In New York, she moved on to work in collage, for which she became primarily known. Hoff's figurative approach was deeply inspired by her frequent trips to Mexico in the 1940s. She died in her Manhattan loft, which served as her painting studio and home, at the age of 98. Her ashes were placed in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.