Lot 552: Martha Harriet Hoke (American, 1861-1939), "The Old Well", c. 1890; watercolor/paperboard,

9" x 15", signed and dated. Early St Louis artist. Hoke studied at the St Louis School of Fine Art, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1890s-1900s). She also worked as an illustrator and taught at the St Louis School of Fine Art. REF: American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Fink; Dictionary of Women Artists, Petteys.