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Emily Hoffmeier
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Emily Hoffmeier
Emily L. Hoffmeier (1888 - 1952)
Sailboats, Boothbay Harbor
oil on board, 8 1/2" x 12", signed lower left
A well-listed artist and a Nantucket treasure, Hoffmeier graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1909 and stayed there as an instructor for a few years. She studied in Boothbay Harbor with Henry Snell, on Nantucket with Frank Swift Chase, and in Gloucester with Hugh Breckenridge. From 1929 on she kept a studio on Nantucket and in 1945 was a founding member of the Nantucket Art Association along with Frank Swift Chase. Her works are in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association.
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