Louise Josephine Pope, of New York City, attended Wellesley College from 1890 to 1894, graduating with her B.A.
In the 1908 American Art Annual, she is listed as living at 74 South Washington Square, New York.
[14] Stylistically, she explored the early modern painting styles of Futurism and Cubism.
A review of a group show at the MacDowell Club in 1913 sniped: 'Louise Pope, who went to Paris, where she now is, a few years ago, a sane and healthy painter, has felt the lure of the "Futurists," and has not yet recovered.
'[13] At the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign in 1915, her work was identified as "Cubist" and described as "incoherent and quite barbarous" and as depicting "prophecies of subway explosions.
Hourtal, also a painter, was attached to the French army in Morocco and was later recognized for his paintings of Algeria.