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About The Artist: Margo Hoff

Margo Hoff was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to parents Clarence Hoff, a carpenter, and Ada Hayes. The second of eight children, she began making art at an early age, modeling small figures from clay and earning a silver medal in free hand drawing at age 14. After two years at the University of Tulsa, she relocated to Chicago to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1933. Her early style as a figurative painter was...