Horatio Nelson Poole


Horatio Nelson Poole was an American painter, printmaker, muralist and teacher.
Poole is known for both his intaglio prints and paintings. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center, Mills College, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding work by Horatio Nelson Poole.

Life

Poole was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey on January 16, 1884, but his family moved to Philadelphia when Horatio was ten years old. He studied at the M Street High School, Philadelphia's School of Industrial Design, and then with Thomas Pollock Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Poole moved to Hawaii in 1914, where he worked as an illustrator for the Pacific Commercial Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. In 1921, he left Hawaii for San Francisco, where he taught at the California School of Fine Arts and at the University of California, Berkeley. He painted a 20-foot mural in San Francisco’s Roosevelt Jr. High School for the Public Works Administration during the 1930s. Poole died in San Francisco July 4, 1949. Horatio's brothers John C. Poole and Earl L. Poole were also artists.

Works

Examples of Bookplates by Horatio Nelson Poole

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