![]() Since then many historical paintings by Hoover have been hung in Youngstown public buildings.īelieving that the study of lighting and composition would help him in his painting, Mr. In 19 he and Edith Wright Stevenson, were commissioned to paint twenty portraits of Mahoning County judges for the Court House. He exchanged studio space for instruction, and learned a great deal in that way. He learned much by studying the technique of Spanish, German and English artists, and often speaks of Chapman, Froher, and Beaumont, artist friends that were interested in his talent. There being no funds for art school he taught himself by reading, observation and close association with other artists. His wife encouraged him in every way, and he began to make rapid progress as a portrait and landscape painter. for seven years in association with eighteen other artists. Hoover was employed by the National Art Co. However the years brought six children to their home, and supporting a family became of major importance.įinally an opportunity to work as an artist presented itself and Mr. Hoover married a Pennsylvania girl, Susan Lytle, who also dreamed of painting. His talent finally began to be appreciated, and as a young man he and a cousin, (Charles McCauley) started out taking orders for free hand crayon work. Art was an unheard of subject in the schools of those days, being labeled as a passtime (sic) only for the rich and leisurely however in spite of much discouragement he clung to his desire to draw and paint, and every spare penny he could scrape together was used for canvas, paints, and other artist supplies. Hoover, well-known local artist, was born in the old Cornersburg Hotel (Landmark of the early eighteenth century that was burned to the ground recently) and has lived in Youngstown most of his life.Īt an early age his artistic inclination began to assert itself in the form of sketches on the flyleaves of various textbooks, and at the age of ten he painted his first "master-piece" on the back of a piece of oilcloth "borrowed from the kitchen table. ![]() In 1900 he was an artist living next to his father, in 1910, an artist, in 1920 a portrait artist and his widowed mother was living next door, and in 1940, he was a widow and his daughter, Helen and family and Louis Lytle are living with him and they were living next to Paul C. ![]()
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