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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.
He was married three times: firstly to Jessie McDonald (1912–1929); secondly to Clarissa Lorenz (1930–1937) (author of a biography, Lorelei Two); and thirdly to the painter Mary Hoover (1937–1973).
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.
23 de mai. de 2018 · Mary Hoover Aiken, a painter and the widow of American poet Conrad Aiken, died Thursday at Oceanside Nursing Center on Tybee Island after a lengthy illness. She was born Dec. 11, 1905, in Cuba, New York.
- December 11, 1905
26 de out. de 1992 · Visiting Boston in 1936, she was introduced to Conrad Aiken, 47, whose Selected Poems in 1929 had established him as a major poet and had won the Pulitzer Prize.
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.
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.
