Background
He was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1887.
He was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1887.
In addition to creating prints, he worked for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Poole died of cancer in Honolulu on July 29, 1926. John"s brother Horatio Nelson Poole (1884–1949) was a painter, printmaker, and muralist who worked primerally in California and Hawaii.
The Honolulu Museum of Art is among the public collections holding works by Poole.