Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary--Paintings and Works on Paper

Index

index Page numbers in italics indicate images. Aarons, Leo, 17 Abstract Expressionism, 6, 103 abstraction abstract realism, 133 and Alphabetical series, 115 and Big Bend series, 143, 147, 185, 187 biometric and biomorphic, 117 and Calligraphic One Liners, 119–20, 121 and changes in Hogue’s style, 102 in drawings, 157, 158, 172, 173 in early works, 23, 24, 26 and Erosion paintings, 85 and geometric structure, 110 and late works, 179–81, 182, 185, 187 and Melting Window Frost, 105–6 and number paintings, 112 and Oil Industry series, 91, 93 and psychorealism, 65 and Taos paintings, 48, 50, 94 and Texas landscapes, 97–99 Acequia Madre (Mother Watercourse) (1928), 34, 35 Across the Valley—Taos (1929), 45–48, 47, 167 advertising industry, 17, 18 Aerial Irrigation (1987), 182–84 agriculture and drought, 63 dry-land farming, 16 and the Dust Bowl, 62, 75 and Hogue’s farm, 100–101 and irrigation, 24, 35, 101, 150, 182–84 suitcase farmers, 64, 93 and Taos landscapes, 33, 35 wheat cultivation, 64, 67, 70, 75, 150, 164 Albers, Josef, 113 Alizarin Crimson paint, 109–10 Allied Arts Exhibitions, 4, 75 Alphabetical series, 112–17, 121, 124 ambidexterity of Hogue, 74 American Artist, 75, 109 American Gothic (Wood), 63 American Scene, 3, 13, 62–63, 85–86 Anglo culture, 30 Ankeny, John S., 4 Appaloosa (1958), 174 aquifers, 14, 70, 150, 171, 182 archetypal associations in Hogue’s work, 43, 58, 61, 74, 164 architecture, 100–101, 162 Area 51 (1953), 173 Art Deco, 26 Art Institute of Chicago, 15, 18, 75 Art News, 77 Art Students League, 4, 17 Arthur, John, 122 Ashanti fertility symbols, 128 Ashcan school, 2–3 Associated American Artists, 82, 83 atomic age, 173 Aura (1931), 53 Austin, Dorothy, 4 Autumn Pool (1925), 22 Avalanche By Wind (1944), 81, 82, 83, 102 Bachelard, Gaston, 126 Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 182 Bassett, Reveau, 19 Bavinger, Eugene, 101 Bedichek, Roy, 58, 101 Belasco Cup, 51 Bellows, George, 3, 4 Benjamin, Karl, 117 Benton, Thomas Hart, 62–63, 64, 85, 86 Berninghaus, Charles, 30 Berninghaus, Oscar, 5, 36 Bessett, Maurice, 78 196 index Biddle, George, 86 Bierstadt, Albert, 3 Big Bend National Park, 130, 131 Big Bend works Canyon Totem, Erosional Remnant (1982), 145, 187 Chief Alsate’s Profile, Big Bend (1981), 142, 143 Chisos Mountains, Northwest Face (1979), 138, 139 Cretaceous Clay Ridge, Big Bend (1977), 135, 136 Desert Mesa in the Big Bend (1981), 140–43, 141 and the desert setting, 130–33 and drawings, 184–88, 186 Eroded Lava Badlands, Alpine (1982), 146, 146–47 and geological subjects, 6 Igneous Intrusive Mass, Big Bend (1978), 137, 137–39 Lava-Capped Mesa, Big Bend (1976), 134, 136 Oasis, Big Bend (1985), 147–49, 148 and pastels, 167, 184–87 and progression of Hogue’s work, 2 Pulliam Bluffs, Chisos Mountains (1984), 139–40, 140 Pulliam Ridge, Chisos Mountains (1980), 143–45, 144 and sense of place, 12, 131–33 and sublime beauty, 6–7, 143, 151 Waterless Area, Big Bend (1985), 147, 187 biometric / biomorphic abstraction, 117, 173 birthplace of Hogue, 15 Bishop, Wiley, 16 Bisttram, Emil, 36 black land, 73 Blake, William, 3 Block Compendium, 109 Blue Betty (mountain), 73, 160 Blue Lake, 37, 48 Blue Planet (1971), 128 The Bluffs, 133 Blumenschein, Ernest L. Hogue’s relationship with, 4 and Hogue’s style, 5, 37 and meeting with Rogers, 18 and Mother Earth Laid Bare, 72 and paint standards, 109 and the Taos Society of Artists, 36, 40 Blumenschein, Helen, 37, 72 Bocour Artist Colors, 109, 110 Botticelli, Sandro, 3, 63, 77 Bowling, Charles, 50 Brazos de Dios, 23 Brazos Sands (1927), 23–24 Bridgman, George, 4 Bruegel, Pieter the Elder, 3 B-24 aircraft, 172 Buddhism, 28 bull snakes, 179–81, 180 Burchfield, Charles, 3, 85 Bureau of Engraving, 17 Burning Landscape (1957), 103–5, 104 Bywaters, Jerry, 4, 50, 63, 86 Caesar and Cleopatra (theater production), 51 calligraphic forms and abstract landscapes, 99 and Alphabetical series, 112–17, 114, 115, 121, 124 and Big Bend series, 136, 143, 147 Calligraphic One Liners, 6, 117–22, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 133, 174–75 and Hogue’s drawings, 164, 174–75, 176 and Hogue’s late works, 182 Jungle, 106 Like Banners Blowing, 109 and Taos landscapes, 48 This I Have Done, 109 Canaday, John, 121 Canadian River, 168 Canadian thistle, 76 Canyon Totem, Erosional Remnant (1982), 145, 187 Cape Canaveral, 128 Caprock Country (1937), 170, 171 Carnegie International, 5, 72, 80 Carnohan, Harry, 4, 19, 50...