Untitled, n.d.
Oil on burlap, 15 x 18 -1/8 inches
Private Collection

Margaret Morehead Hobson was born March 18, 1890 in Warren County, Kentucky daughter of William E. and Ida (Thomas) Hobson. Margaret attended Bowling Green's Potter College studying art with Miss Beulah Strong who later became head of the art department at Smith College in Massachusetts. Hobson graduated in 1909 the same year of her father's death. Living her entire life on the family's 308-acre farm, Margaret was an independent woman by nature and by necessity. About ten years after her father's death, an oil boom in south-central Kentucky led Margaret to enter a profession few considered appropriate for a woman. She began to lease land for oil exploration, a career that lasted 50 years. Not only did Hobson have a head for business, she possessed a natural artistic talent and painted local scenes, family members and flowers in her spare time. Margaret Hobson died May 20, 1987 at age 97.

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