

Harry Leslie Hoffman American, 1871-1964
The Artist's Wife (Beatrice Pope) at the Loom, circa 1915
Oil on canvas
30 x 32 inches
This painting presents Beatrice Pope, Hoffman's wife and collaborator, weaving a textile after one of her husband's compositions. Pope is captured at a moment of concentration in an intimate scene...
This painting presents Beatrice Pope, Hoffman's wife and collaborator, weaving a textile after one of her husband's compositions. Pope is captured at a moment of concentration in an intimate scene that reveals the complex co-mingling of domestic life, the economy of art, and gender dynamics in the 1910s.