About the Hoover Gallery
F. Herbert Hoover, owner of the Hoover Gallery in San Francisco, has a distinguished background in the arts. He graduated, cum laude from Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee, and was immediately, upon graduation, commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He subsequently served as a First Lieutenant during the Korean Conflict.
After his tour of duty, he was for five years director of the Pomeroy Galleries in San Francisco. At present, he is President of Hoover Capital Corporation. Mr. Hoover is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Twenty Thousand Men of Achievement.
Mr. Hoover served three terms as a member of the California Arts Commission, appointed by then Governor Ronald Reagan. During his tenure as a commissioner, he was responsible for many innovative and important programs in his capacity as visual arts chairman of the Commission. Mr. Hoover has been an instructor of art at the University of California Extension at Berkeley, Davis and Santa Cruz and has now retired from his status as teacher and as Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers.
Mr. Hoover has lectured frequently at museums, colleges and national conferences and has served as an invited juror, panelist and advisor to renowned auction houses, such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Butterfield and Butterfield, now Bonham’s. He has been featured in countless interviews on collecting and appraising works of art. In his role as an appraiser, Mr. Hoover was called upon by the Internal Revenue Service as an expert witness to review cases which are in dispute, the outcome of which are recorded in the Tax Court Regular Decisions.
Mr. Hoover still works as a consultant and advisor to many corporations and private collectors throughout the world. In 1975, he was instrumental in bringing to the attention of the art world the work of Harold Christopher Davies, 1891-1976, noted abstract expressionist painter.
Mr. Hoover has authored the popular book, "Brushstrokes", a collection of anecdotes by and about famous artists of the past and present which was for a number of years a weekly column in the "Portland Oregonian". He is also the author of "Hoover's Guide to Galleries: San Francisco" and "Hoover's Guide to Galleries: Los Angeles." Mr. Hoover is the author of many published articles such as "Taste in the Arts," "Frederic C. Torrey and the Infamous Nude," "Collecting Religious Art," and many others.
A noteworthy collector of traditional and contemporary works of art by American and European artists, Mr. Hoover is the owner of a fine collection of paintings, furniture, sculpture and ceramics, including an extensive group of sculptures and drawings by the Russian-American sculptor, Michael von Meyer. Mr. Hoover's home has been featured in "Architectural Digest."
Mr. Hoover has continued his life long passion for music by serving on the boards of the San Francisco Opera Association and the Merola Opera Fund. During his career, Mr. Hoover served on many community boards, namely the California Heritage Concil, of which he was president for many years and the University of California Hospital auxiliary, of which he also served as president for a number of years.
After his tour of duty, he was for five years director of the Pomeroy Galleries in San Francisco. At present, he is President of Hoover Capital Corporation. Mr. Hoover is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Twenty Thousand Men of Achievement.
Mr. Hoover served three terms as a member of the California Arts Commission, appointed by then Governor Ronald Reagan. During his tenure as a commissioner, he was responsible for many innovative and important programs in his capacity as visual arts chairman of the Commission. Mr. Hoover has been an instructor of art at the University of California Extension at Berkeley, Davis and Santa Cruz and has now retired from his status as teacher and as Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers.
Mr. Hoover has lectured frequently at museums, colleges and national conferences and has served as an invited juror, panelist and advisor to renowned auction houses, such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Butterfield and Butterfield, now Bonham’s. He has been featured in countless interviews on collecting and appraising works of art. In his role as an appraiser, Mr. Hoover was called upon by the Internal Revenue Service as an expert witness to review cases which are in dispute, the outcome of which are recorded in the Tax Court Regular Decisions.
Mr. Hoover still works as a consultant and advisor to many corporations and private collectors throughout the world. In 1975, he was instrumental in bringing to the attention of the art world the work of Harold Christopher Davies, 1891-1976, noted abstract expressionist painter.
Mr. Hoover has authored the popular book, "Brushstrokes", a collection of anecdotes by and about famous artists of the past and present which was for a number of years a weekly column in the "Portland Oregonian". He is also the author of "Hoover's Guide to Galleries: San Francisco" and "Hoover's Guide to Galleries: Los Angeles." Mr. Hoover is the author of many published articles such as "Taste in the Arts," "Frederic C. Torrey and the Infamous Nude," "Collecting Religious Art," and many others.
A noteworthy collector of traditional and contemporary works of art by American and European artists, Mr. Hoover is the owner of a fine collection of paintings, furniture, sculpture and ceramics, including an extensive group of sculptures and drawings by the Russian-American sculptor, Michael von Meyer. Mr. Hoover's home has been featured in "Architectural Digest."
Mr. Hoover has continued his life long passion for music by serving on the boards of the San Francisco Opera Association and the Merola Opera Fund. During his career, Mr. Hoover served on many community boards, namely the California Heritage Concil, of which he was president for many years and the University of California Hospital auxiliary, of which he also served as president for a number of years.