Margaret Hoard

{{short description|American painter}}

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| birth_date = 1880

| birth_place = Washington, Iowa

| death_date = 1944

| death_place = Mount Vernon, New York

| nationality = American

| education = Art Students League of New York

| field = Sculpture

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Margaret Hoard (ca. 1880–1944) American sculptor and painter born in Washington, Iowa. She studied in New York City at the Art Students League with Fraser and Aitken and painting with Arthur Wesley Dow.

Hoard was one of the artists who exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913, which included one of her sculptures, a plaster entitled Study of an old lady ($75).Brown, Milton W., '’The Story of the Armory Show'’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 242

Her marble carving, Eve is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, '’American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions’’, G. K. Hall and Co. Boston, 1990, p.240{{cite web|title=Eve|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/480674|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=10 June 2017}}

She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988

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