Alexandre Hogue (1898-1994) | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Born in Memphis, Missouri, Alexandre Hogue became a Texan when he was six weeks old, when his family moved to Denton, just north of Dallas. As a child he received art instruction from Elizabeth Hillyar. After moving to Minneapolis after his graduation from high school in 1918, Hogue took art courses at the College of Art and Design. Returning to Dallas, he developed skills in illustration, design, and lettering to prepare himself for a New York stay that began in 1921. He lived and worked there for four years, studying the museums and galleries and returning to Texas in the summers to paint with Frank Reaugh.

Beginning in 1926, Hogue began to spend long intermittent periods in Taos, New Mexico, where he became close friends with Ernest Blumenschein. Hogue's painting The Liver Basket comes from this fruitful period, during which he was given his first one-man show at the Houston Museum. By the early 1930s, Hogue had become more and more identified with the development of Texas art, particularly in Dallas, joining Jerry Bywaters as a principal spokesman for the new regionalist movement. In 1932 Hogue helped form the Dallas Artists League and began work on his series of paintings on the Texas landscape. In this period, he taught at Texas State College for Women and, later, at Hockaday Junior College. He continued as an active commentator to the national press on regional art and played an instrumental role in the Texas Centennial Exhibition.

In 1937 Hogue's Dust Bowl series was featured in Life magazine, and Fortune commissioned a work on the oil industry. He painted murals for the Treasury section of the Federal Arts Project from 1939 to 1941, for the Houston Post Office Annex (with Jerry Bywaters) and for the Post Office in Graham, Texas. During this period he participated in many exhibitions and received numerous honors, including having a work purchased by the Jeude Paume Museum in Paris. He actively supported art activities in the community and was an important charter member of the Lone Star Printmakers in 1938. In 1942 he joined North American Aviation as a technical illustrator, and following World War II, he moved to Oklahoma to head the art department of the University of Tulsa, where he stayed until his retirement in 1968. Alexandre Hogue's contribution to the development of art in Texas cannot be overestimated. No history of Texas lithograph culture would be complete without describing his contribution as an artist and tireless worker.

Adapted from

Rick Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle (Dallas Museum of Arts: Dallas, TX, 1985), 170.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum teacher packet, Dec 2011- http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/researchNotes/1969.123.pdf

ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS

Dallas Nine

Regionalism (style or movement)

Texas Centennial Exposition and Art Exhibition (1936)

Lone Star Printmakers

Alexandre Hogue: The Erosion Series

Alexandre Hogue's "Drouth Stricken Area"

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Hogue, Alexandre, Texas State Historical Association Biography~Read more about Alexandre Hogue on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
Dallas Nine~Read more about this group on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collection~View a collection of Hogue's works digitally in a local university collection (organized by Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries Digital Collections).

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