Click on image to enlarge. From Left to Right:
The first image depicts "Murder Mystery" (1945), Art Institute of Chicago, Walter M. Campana Memorial Prize Fund, 1946.50
The second and third photos show Margo Hoff creating the tableu, assisted by her husband, artist George Buehr
Rubbings, Lebanon, 1950s (2 photos)
Working on linoleum cuts, September, 1965 (2 photos)
Creating linoleum cut of a bird, September, 1965 (4 sequential photos)
Surrounded by paintings (75 of them) for an installation at the Home Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, in 1963. (The second photo shows Ms. Hoff assisted by colleagues, including her gallerists Sally Fairweather, far left and Shirley Hardin, far right; also, note the sketched-out plan on the back wall.) Initially, the bank purchased a single Hoff artwork from the Fairweather Hardin Gallery in Chicago; this lead the architects of the building (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago) to approach the artist about doing a mural for the lobby. Otto Preisler, the president of Home Federal, didn't want the mural to be abstract—he wanted it to be easily understood by his working-class customers. Noting that the business had been built on loans made on dwellings, the artist created a series of canvases depicting homes (some then extant and some based on historical drawings and photographs) of the Chicago area. In order to avoid completely obscuring the handsome brick wall, the artist then designed a flowing metal construction extending one inch out from the wall—representing the routes of major highways and streets in the Chicago area—and used this structure (8.5 feet tall and 50 feet long) to support the paintings. (To learn more about the project, go to the MargoHoff.com homepage and under Categories select "Reference/Newspapers" and then scroll down to "Clippings/Newspapers/1963").
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Working on "Room of Madonnas" at Saint Mary's College, Indiana, 1970; this painting is in the collection of University of Notre Dame)
Margo was never afraid of heights, ladders or scaffolding (2 photos)
West 14th Street studio, NYC; the nearly floor-to-ceiling windows face north—Margo loved the quality and abundance of natural light they admitted
Unpacking a mural (3 sequential photos)
Painting studio, 14th Street, NYC; Margo spent hours right down on the floor, working—sometimes she used a small, low stool—well into her 80s
Touching up a painting just before an opening (3 sequential photos)
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Pondering a large canvas, 14th Street studio
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