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Louise D. Clement-Hoff (June 4, 1926 – Jan 31, 2020) was an American artist and educator from Philadelphia known for her oil paintings, pastel works, still lives, and figure work.

Family and Training
Born Louise Darling Ulett as seven of eight children to John George Ulett and Eva Adele Ulett in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Clement-Hoff graduated from William Penn High School. She received a bachelor of fine arts at the Philadelphia College of Art (now known as the University of the Arts). After her undergraduate education, Clement-Hoff broadened her skills at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Barnes Foundation.

Educator
Clement-Hoff’s teaching career included 18 years of figure drawing classes at Woodmere Art Museum; figure drawing, still life composition, and painting at Philadelphia’s Hussian School of Art; and more than 64 years of painting, sculpture and drawing at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She taught oil painting to the parents of students enrolled in Fleisher’s Saturday Young Artists Program. Clement-Hoff previously served as an adjunct professor of art at West Chester University. On June 16, 2015, Louise was presented with the Samuel S. Fleisher Founder’s Award and citation from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, presented by Helen Hayes, the city’s chief cultural officer, as a recognition of her impacts on the school.

Artist
Her work, predominantly figurative, was honored with an impressive retrospective exhibition that surveyed 20 years of her work at West Chester University’s McKinney Gallery in 1998. Another large exhibition of her oil paintings, pastels, and drawings was shown at the Atlantic City Art Center in 2000. In addition, she received a Fred & Naomi Hazell Faculty Fellowship and exhibition at Fleisher and was included in the Senior Artists Initiative exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum. Louise had also shown her paintings at the Hahn Gallery and Atlantic City Art Center.

Personal Life
Her first marriage was to husband Walter Robert Clement, her second was to George Hoff.

She was preceded in death by her son, Robert Ulett Clement, and siblings, Rudolph Williams, Harold Williams, Clifford Williams, Mildred Urqhart and Gladys G. Harrison. She is survived by: her children, Gina Louise and Geri Georgette; grandsons, Julian Clement, Cason Celious and Casey Celious; siblings, Marjorie E. Blake and Vernell L. Walden.