About the Artists
Lee Maris Hoffman
American, 1932 – 2010
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Art Education, University of Colorado, 1957.
Master of Fine Arts - Painting, University of Washington, 1960
Lee was an art educator as well as an artist, spending five years as a member of the art faculty at Spring Hill College (1963-1968) before moving to the University of South Alabama (1968-1999), both in Mobile, Alabama. Lee, born in Colorado, moved to Mobile in 1963 after living in Colorado, Washington, Connecticut and Louisiana. Lee’s early preferred media and subject focused on oils and modernism, but he transitioned to plein air watercolor and edited realism in the 1970s, with serigraphs and drawings included in the mix. Lee and Kaye married in July 1964.
Kaye Wall Hoffman
American, 1938 - 2024
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting, University of Alabama, 1962
Kaye was an artist and small business owner. Kaye was born in North Carolina but spent most of her life after 1946 in Mobile, Alabama. Kaye’s media primarily included pen and ink, gouache, watercolor, acrylics, pencil as well as etchings, lino, wood block and serigraph prints. Her subject matter was varied and included interiors, figures, exteriors, flowers and, frequently, humor. Kaye and Lee married in July 1964.
