Louise Clement-Hoff

Louise D. Clement-Hoff (June 4, 1926 – Jan 31, 2020) was an American painter and educator who specialized in oil painting, pastel and drawing of human figures and still lifes.

Early life and education Louise Darling Clement-Hoff was born to John George and Eva Adele Ulett in Philadelphia and attended William Penn High School. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art (now known as the University of the Arts) and continued her art studies at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Barnes Foundation.

Career Clement-Hoff's teaching career included 18 years of figure drawing classes at Woodmere Art Museum, figure drawing, still life composition and painting at Hussian School of Art; and more than 64 years of painting, sculpture and drawing at the Fleisher Art Memorial, all in Philadelphia. She also taught oil painting to the parents of students enrolled in Fleisher's Saturday Young Artists Program and at West Chester University in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Clement-Hoff was a painter and draftsperson.

Posthumous recognition Clement-Hoff work also featured in Daphne Landis's 2003 book Speaking for Themselves: The Artists of Southeastern Pennsylvania which described it as reflecting an interest in what is "rampantly alive".

At a ceremony led by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, the Fleisher Art Memorial selected Clement-Hoff to receive the 2015 Founder's Award in recognition of her lasting impact on the school.

Clement-Hoff's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.