for his friend, Thomas E. Dewey. Together, they were the parents of a daughter, Petrea "Trea" Hoving. Hoving died of lung cancer at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 10, 2009. In popular culture Hoving appeared in Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, a 2006 documentary by Harry Moses about a supposed "lost" Jackson Pollock painting, where he dismissed the claims, believing that true connoisseurs are the only ones who can identify the real from fake paintings and that fingerprints and forensic evidence are secondary. The clincher, he stated, was that the 'Pollock' painting had a gesso ground, something that Pollock never used. He was the subject of the titular profile in A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles, a 1969 collection of biographical pieces by John McPhee. Works Hoving, Thomas. King of the Confessors: A New Appraisal. cybereditions.com: Christchurch, NZ, 2001. Hoving, Thomas. King of the Confessors. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1981. Artful Tom, A memoir // Artnet Bibliography "Outdoorsman of the Big City", Life, April 29, 1966. References External links "Tom Hoving" (obituary), The Daily Telegraph (London, UK), Friday 11 December 2009. Thomas Hoving records at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives. 1931 births 2009 deaths American art curators Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art People from Manhattan Hotchkiss School alumni Princeton University alumni New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Buckley School (New York City) alumni