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- Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary--Paintings and Works on Paper
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
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Presenting the unique vision of an American original . . .
Alexandre Hogue, a renowned artist whose career spanned from the 1920s to his death in 1994, inherited the view of an America that imagined itself as filled with limitless potential for improvement, that considered high art and great ideas accessible to ordinary working people, and that saw no reason for an intellectual chasm between a learned elite and the masses. He always viewed himself as a radical, yet his passion stemmed from a deeply conservative idea: that art, culture, and nature should form a central force in the life of every human being.
His well-known Dust Bowl series labeled him as a regionalist painter, but Hogue never accepted that identity. His work reveals the spirit of Texas and the Southwest as he experienced it for nearly a century. In his later years Hogue worked in forms of crisply rendered nonobjective and calligraphic one-liner paintings. Bringing to light new information regarding the Erosion and Oil Industry series, this book gives special attention to lesser known, post-1945 works, in addition to the awe-inspiring Moon Shot and final Big Bend series.
Each series—from the hauntingly beautiful Taos landscapes and prophetic canvases of a dust-covered Southwest to his depictions of the fierce geological phenomena of the Big Bend—serves as a paean to the awesomeness of nature.
Houston-based curator and critic Susie Kalil grew close to Hogue from 1986 to 1994, a time during which she interviewed him, considered his oeuvre with him, and came to share his vision of the nature and purposes of art. In Alexandre Hogue she reveals Hogue as he presented himself and his work to her.
Collections with Alexandre Hogue's paintings:
Musee National D'Art Moderne, Pompidou, Paris
DallasMuseum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The GilcreaseMuseum, Tulsa
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
University of Tulsa
Tulsa Performing ArtsCenter
Smithsonian Institution (NationalMuseum of American Art), Washington, DC
OklahomaMuseum of Art, Okla City
The SheldonMuseum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
PhoenixArt Museum
University of Arizona, Tucson
Art Museum of SouthTexas, Corpus Christi
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Tx.
StarkMuseum, Orange, Tx
Southern MethodistUniversity, Dallas
SpringfieldArt Museum, Springfield, Missouri
WeatherspoonArt Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas
The Williams Companies, Tulsa
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part One : Paintings
- 1: The Early Years
- pp. 11-28
- 2: Taos and Back to Texas
- pp. 29-61
- 3: The Dust Bowl Era
- pp. 62-86
- 4: The Early Forties
- pp. 87-99
- 5: Toward an Intuitive Geometry
- pp. 100-124
- 6: The Moon Shot Series
- pp. 125-129
- 7: The Big Bend Paintings
- pp. 130-151
- Paintings: Conclusion
- p. 152
- Part Two : Works on Paper
- 8: Drawing: The Dynamic Impulse
- pp. 155-178
- 9: The Late Works
- pp. 179-188
- Conclusion
- pp. 189-190
Additional Information
ISBN
9781603446655
Related ISBN(s)
9781603442145
MARC Record
OCLC
794700330
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No