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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.
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.'
In 1936, Aiken met his third wife, Mary, in Boston. In the following year the couple visited Malcolm Lowry in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where Aiken divorced Clarissa and married Mary. The couple moved to Rye, where they remained until the outbreak of World War II in 1940.
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.
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.
Artists; Mary Hoover Aiken Exhibitions View all. 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings. Jan 3–Feb 8, 1945
