About Horatio Nelson Poole

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    Horatio Poole was known as an accomplished painter and muralist. He worked on many commissioned projects and was also a teacher for many years.

    Poole was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1884. He and his family relocated to Pennsylvania when he was ten years old. Poole lived in Philadelphia and studied at the local School of Industrial Design. He went on to attend classes at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art for six years as a pupil of Thomas Anshutz.

    In 1914, he moved to Hawaii where he was able to support himself working as a newspaper illustrator,"Pacific Commercial Advertiser". For the opening night exhibit of the 1917 opening night exhibition of the Hawaiian Society of Artists, he both exhited his etchings and did ...

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