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Mary Augusta Hoover Aiken (11 December 1905 – 22 October 1992) was an American painter. She was the third wife and widow of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Conrad Aiken. Mary Augusta Hoover was born on 11 December 1905 in Cuba, New York, the daughter of a civil engineer.
Biography. Early years. 228 East Oglethorpe Avenue in Savannah, Georgia. Aiken was the eldest son of William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken. In Savannah, Aiken's father became a respected physician and eye surgeon, while his mother was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. [1] .
26 de out. de 1992 · THE PAINTER Mary Hoover Aiken was the third wife of the US poet Conrad Aiken. A shy man, he said of her, 'She made me the only man who has two parties every day.'
Artist: Mary Hoover Aiken (American, Cuba, New York 1905–1992 Tybee Island, Georgia) Date: 1939. Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor over graphite on paper. Dimensions: 15 3/8 × 22 3/8 in. (39.1 × 56.8 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1940. Accession Number: 40.123.
22 de out. de 1992 · Mary Augusta Hoover Aiken (11 December 1905 – 22 October 1992) was an American painter. She was the third wife and widow of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Conrad Aiken.
Hoover’s career accelerated upon her return to New York, where she participated in fourteen solo and group exhibitions within two years and was honored before the end of the decade by the acquisition of two of her Ibiza paintings by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artist: Mary Hoover Aiken (American, Cuba, New York 1905–1992 Tybee Island, Georgia) Date: 1934. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (54 x 69.2 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1938. Accession Number: 38.176
