ALEXANDRE HOGUE (1898-1994) Alexandre Hogue was born in 1898 in Missouri but moved to Texas that same year. Hogue was interested in art from a young age and cultivated his talent through various classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design after he graduated high school 1918. He returned to Dallas the following year to work as an illustrator for the Dallas Morning News but did not remain at his position long, and left for New York City in 1921. He was employed as a designer by many advertising firms, as he was adept at calligraphy and lettering. Hogue made frequent trips back to Texas during the summers, often working with fellow artist Frank Reaugh. In 1925, the commute became an inconvenience and Hogue moved back to Dallas and began to paint full time.In addition to expanding his own body of work, Hogue also taught summer classes at the Texas State College for Women from 1931 to 1942. He was named head of the art department and Hackaday Junior college in 1936, a position he held for six years. Hogue was a traveler and spent much of his time in various art colonies in American Southwest; he became acquainted with the arts and cultures of Native American tribes whose understandings of the centrality of nature and human obligation to respect it were vital in the development of Hogue’s artistic philosophy.During the 1930’s Hogue became affiliated with Jerry Bywaters, Otis Dozier, William Lester and Everett Spruce, all active members of the Dallas art movement, the Dallas Nine. Striving to express the particular characteristics of his environment, Hogue’s paintings of the Dust Bowl gained him immense fame with works featured in Life magazine in 1937. Hogue’s works presented a new interpretation of the American landscape, portraying the devastating effects of human greed and disrespect.During the World War II Years, Hogue ceased his mural painting for the Federal Art Project and devoted himself to defense work at North American Aviation until he was named head of the art department at the University of Tulsa in 1945. He continued to actively exhibit during his teaching career and his unique works were shown in a variety of exhibitions throughout the Southwest. Although Hogue held his administrative position until 1963, he remained at the university until 1968 and after his departure, the Alexandre Hogue Gallery was established in 1976. His works continued to be shown in a variety of private and public collections exhibiting his innovative approach to the portrayal of the Texas landscape. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights1898, Born in Memphis, Missouri; moves to Denton, Texas1914, Studies with Frank Reaugh in Dallas, Texas1918, Attends Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota1919, Illustrator for Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas1931-42, Instructor at Texas State College for Women, Denton, Texas1939-41, Paints murals for Public Works of Art Project1945-68, Head of the art department and professor of art at University of Tulsa, Oklahoma1994, Dies in Tulsa, Oklahoma Studied: Elizabeth Alger Hillyar in Denton; Frank Reaugh;Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Lauros Monroe Phoenix;Minneapolis Institute of Art with ClarenceConaughy. Member: The Attic Club, Dallas; Frank Reaugh Art Club;Dallas Art Association; Dallas Print Society; American Federation of Arts; Texas Fine Arts Association; Southern States Art League; Lone Star Printmakers; Southwestern Art Association; Audubon Artists; Art Association of New Orleans; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts; Dallas Artists League; Highland Park Society of Arts; Society of Independent Artists. Exhibitions:Dallas Woman's Forum, 1919Town Crier-Asleep on Duty, Red Cross Nurse, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932Dallas Advertising League, 1921Waco Cotton Palace Exposition, 1924, 1929, 1930Sultry Day Near Lampasas; Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth Museum of Art, 1925Blue Springs, Flowing Sand, Misty Morning, Palo Duro Canyon, Palo Duro Cedars, Punta De Agua Creek, 1926Sleepy Hollow Church-Tarrytown-New York, The Sand Pit, 1927Christmas Day, Sangre De Cristo Mountains, 1928Red Peppers, September Snow, Twining, New Mexico, 1929Still Life Taos, 1930Live Oaks-Brazos Beyond; Southern States Art League, 1926Autumn Willows, Medical Arts Building, 1927Taos' Dobes, 1932Chastity (purchase prize), (book plate), Tear Bottles, (book plate) 1933Live Oaks-Brazos Beyond, 1934Procession of Santo Domingo; Frank Reaugh Art Club, 1925, 1928Wichita Valley (pastel), 1929Acequia Madre, Last of the Old Tascosa; Highland Park Art Gallery, 1926(lithograph), 1928, (solo), including Sangre De Cristo Mountains and Taos Adobe, 1929, joint with Edward G. Eisenlohr, Frank Klepper, Olin Travis, Reveau Bassett), 1930Aura-Portrait of Julia Hogan, 1933, (book plate) (prize)University Club, Dallas, 1926Texas Federation Women's Clubs, Lufkin,1927Dallas County; Dallas Penwomen, 1927Sangre De Cristo; No Jury Exhibition, Art Association of New Orleans, 1927Sangre De Cristo Mountains; Dallas Art Association, 1927Sangre De Cristo Mountains; Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, 1927Beargrass; Joseph Sartor Galleries, Dallas, 1928, (solo)Six Dallas Artists, 1929, 1931, (solo), 1933Ranchos Mountain From the Mesa, 1934Yoncopin and Sacred Lotus; State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1928Still Life, Ranchos Mountains, 1929Paluxy Valley Farm, Comanche Peak, Cedar Hill, Live Oaks-Brazos Beyond, 1930Damp Day-Paluxy River, 1931J. Frank Dobie-One of Coronado's Children, Sunset, Paluxy, 1932Neighbors, 1933Frances Folsom, 1934Yoncopin and Sacred Lotus; Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1928Pueblo, (honorable mention), October Afternoon, Pigeons (block print) (prize), March Fantasy, The Liver Basket, 1930The Sophisticate, (prize), Palo Duro Canyon (pastel) (honorable mention), Across the Valley-Taos (prize), High Places (prize), Portrait-Child (prize), Portrait, Elizabeth (prize), 1931The Sophisticate (prize), High Places, Child Portrait, Pioneer Cabin, Glen Rose (drawing), Back Doors-Glen Rose, The Mill-Glen Rose, 1932Procession of Santo Domingo (prize), Negation, Aura-Portrait of Julta Hogan,1933Desert (watercolor) (prize), Lava Beds, Mountain Slide, Winter Frolic (drawing), LiveOaks (drawing), 1935Embryonic Cockscomb, Irrigation, Bank Holiday (honorable mention), 1937Erosion, End of the Trail (prize) (lithographs), Sketch for Erosion, 1938Portrait-Jesus Garcia; Cedar Hills-Glen Rose, (pastel) (prize), 1941Spindletop Runs Wild, 1942Crane County Dunes, 1943Rio Grande Canyon, Man of God; Texas FineArts Association, 1928, 1929The Church-Ranchos, Peppers, 1930, 1931, 1932Place of Lamentation, 1933National Academy of Design, 1928A Studio Corner, 1932The Neighbors, 1935Moonlight (lithograph); Art Association of New Orleans, 1928Church; International Printmakers Exhibition, Los Angeles, California, 1928March Fantasy (woodblock); College of Industrial Arts, Denton, 1928, (solo), including Sunset at Love Field (pastel), Some Texas Mountains-Big Bend, Texas Fields, Gentle Breeze, Christmas Sunrise, Taos Pueblo, The Place of Lamentation, Sleepy Hollow Church-Tarrytown-New York, Autumn in Taos Canyon, October Morning, Yellow Rose Hills, and Morning in Taos Canyon; A Collection of Texas and New Mexico Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1929, (solo)Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Denver, 1930Cabinet Exhibition, Dallas University Club, 1930Place, 1930Aura-Portrait of Julia Hogan; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, 1930, Red Peppers,1933Dallas Little Theater, 1930Aura-Portrait of JuliaHogan, 1931, (solo), including Portrait-The Artist's Niece-Mary Margaret Paschal, 1933, (book plates), 1935,NeighborsTexas Federation of Women's Clubs, Lubbock, 1931Live Oaks-Brazos Beyond; Art Students League of New York, 1931Society of Independent Artists, New York,1931Dallas Woman's Club, 1931Tri-State Fair, Amarillo, 1932Portrait; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1932, 1933Neighbors, 1935Drouth Stricken Area, 1971Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, 1932, (solo)University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1932, (solo)Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, 1932Waco Art League, 1932Palo Duro Canyon, 1932Wichita Valley; Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia,woodblock); American Federation of Arts, 1932, 1933, 1944Mary McCord Theater Museum, Dallas, 1933Portrait-Julia Hogan Fenner, Painting and Sculpture from Sixteen American Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933Elizabeth; Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1934, 1938Sunset High School Art Exhibition, Dallas, 1935Portrait; MidWestern Artists Exhibition, Kansas Missouri, 1935Art Institute, Moonlight (lithograph), 1937Drouth Stricken Area; Dallas Watercolor Painters, 1935Race Track, Dallas Painters in Oils, 1935Wind Erosion, American Figure Painting, 1936J. B. at 78, (drawing), Texas Colleges Art Faculty Exhibition, 1942Drouth Stricken Area, No-Jury Exhibition, 1942Texas Panorama Exhibition, The Crucified Land and AmerienFederation of Arts Traveling Exhibition 1944The Crucifled Land, Exhibition of Production Drawings, 1944, (solo)1948, (solo), Two Hundred Years of American Art, 1945Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 1960Irrigation No. 1., A Century of Art and Life in Texas,Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas, 1978Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Ther Circle, Dallas Museum of Art, 1985Artists West of the Mississippi, Denver Art Museum, 1935Art Institute s Chicago, 1935Drouth Stricken Area, 1936Dust, 1937, 1939, 1940Drouth Stricken Area; International Exhibition of Lithography, Art Institute of Chicago, 1935Moonlight; International Exhibition Printmakers, Los Angeles, 1935Moonlight (lithograph): Thirty Dallas Artists, Dallas School of Creative Arts, 1935Mallows; Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936Drouth Stricken Area, West Texas Museum, Lubbock, 1936, soloContemporary American Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1936Drouth Survlvors, 1937Pecos Escarpment-1937, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1949Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 1936Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1936, (joint with Everett Spruce, William Lester, Otis Dozier); The Thirteen, Harry Z. Lawrence Art Galleries, Dallas, 1936, (three New Mexico landscapes, a pastel, two still lifes), 1962, (solo), including Madonna and Child, Fission, Holocaustal, Sargasso, Plume, Old Friend, Imperturbolithie, Aquaform,Grass No. 2., and The Fiftieth; Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas,1937Drouth Survivors; Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton, 1937, (joint with Jerry Bywaters (prints), Carl Benton Compton (wood sculpture); Dallas Print Society,1937, (prize)Seven American Artists, BoyerGalleries, New York, 1937Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas,1938, Pecos Escarpment-1937Centuries of American Art in the United States, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, Drouth Survivors; Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris, France, 1938Drouth Survivors; Lone Star Printmakers, 1938,Rattler, Five Crosses, 1939Nocturnal, Sacred Place (lithographs), 1940, 1941Penetente Morada, Sage and Cedar, Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh,1938Erosion # 2-Mother Earth Laid Bare, 1939Art in Our Time, Museum of Modern Art New York, 1939Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939;American Art Today, New York's World Fair, 1939Rattler (lithograph); Hockaday School, Dallas, 1939, (solo)Venice Biennial, Italy, 1940Dallas Art Carnival, 1940Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941Erosion No. 2; Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1940Across the Valley, Liberators (lithograph), 1941Texas Front Gate, 1944Liberators (honorable mention), 1954Trout Stream; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1941Sage and Cedar (prize), Oil Man's Christmas Tree (lithograph), 1943, Liberators (prize), Oil Strike-Ploesti, Afternoon (lithographs), 1944Flower Lover, Flood Victims (lithographs), 1945Good Will Exhibition to Ten South American Capitols and Mexico City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1941-1942One Hundred Lithographs of the Year, American Graphic Society, 1941Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1942Cosmos, 1944Crane County Dunes; Between Two Wars, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1942Meet the Artists-Self-Portraits, de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1943Artists for Victory, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1944Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1944Fourway European Goodwill Exhibition, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., 1944Corpus Christi Caller-Times Exhibition, Animal in Art, 1944, 1951, 1954, 1957, (solo), 1960, 1961 (prize), 1962, (prize), 1963American Sense of Reality, 1969, 1984, (solo), 1985, (solo)Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Three Hundred Years of American Painting, Tate Gallery, London, 1946Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1948Cap Rock Ranch, Desert Glare (lithograph) (prize), lithographs), 1951Fission (color lithograph), Holocaustal, Bombardment (color lithographs),Imperiurbolithie (lithograph), 1959Sargasso (color lithograph) (prize), 1962Vortiginous (color lithograph); Oklahoma-WPA, 1949All-Oklahoma Exhibition, 1963Five Oklahoma Artists, 1966Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Graphic Arts Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Kansas, 1951, 1952, 1958Kennedy Gallery, Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, 1952Print Exhibition, University, Peoria, Illinois, 1952Contemporary Color Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952Steel, Iron and Men, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1954Contemporary Art of the Southwest, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches,1956Association of Contemporary American Graphic Art, Oklahoma City, 1959,1960De Pauw University Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana, 1959Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1959, (solo), 1961, (solo)Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, 1959, 1962University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1959, (solo), 1965, (solo), 1993, (retrospective)University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, 1961, (solo), 1973, (solo)Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, 1959, (solo)A Century of Life and Art in Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1961Spindeltop Runs Wild-1901, Drouth Stricken Area; Selected Oklahoma Artists, 5207Oklahoma City, 1961American Landscape Painters, 1800-1960, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences,1961Print Exhibition and Circuit, Hastings College, Nebraska, 1962Burr Galleries, New York, 1962New Directions in American Art, Madison Gallery, New York, 1962Denver Art Museum, 1963American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, 1966After the Crash, 1979National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.; America Circa, 1930, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1968Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, 1973, (joint with LyonelFeininger)Texas Paintings and Sculpture: 20th Century, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1971Texas by Texans, Texas House of Representatives Chamber, Austin, 1974Exhibition of Oklahoma Artists, New York World's Fair, 1974The Modern Spirt: American Painting 1908-1935, Royal Scottish Academy,Edinburg and Haward Gallery, London, 1977The Neglected Generation of Young American Realists:Wichita Art Museum, 1981Texas Images and Visions, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, 1983Dust Bowl; Twentieth Century Prints by Texas Printmakers, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 1983Mood in Landscape, Sherry French Gallery, New York, 1984, 1985, (solo)Gallery Artists: On Paper, 1987, (solo);Americans at Work: Realism between the Wars, Transco Energy Company, Houston, 1985The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Mother Earth Laid Bare, The Crucified Land, Oil in the Sandhills, Cretaceous Clay Ridge, Big Bend, Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe, 1986Procession of the Saint-Santo Domingo, and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, 1990Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; BoundlessContemporary Landscape Painting of the West, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, 1987. Murals: Dallas City Hall (ten mural panels with Jerry Bywaters) (destroyed, 1954); U.S. Post Office, Graham, now located at Old Post Office Museum and Art Center, Graham, Old Felds of Graham; Courthouse, Houston Ship Channel-Early History.Collections: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Palo Duro Cedars (pastel); Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Cretaceous Clay Ridge-Big Bend; Grace Museum, Abilene, Pecos Escarpment; Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Chisos Mountains-Northwest Face, Chief Alsate's Profile-Big Bend; Oklahoma State University, The Rattler (lithograph); Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Grim Reaper (charcoal/ink); Museum of Fine Houston, Squaw Creek,Prairie Windjammer (graphite); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma,Studio Corner-Taos, Magpie-Taos, Erosion No. 2-Mother Earth Laid Bare; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, The Crucifled Land; Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Hondo Canyon CUffs; McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, Zinnigo-Zee-Zee, Lava-Capped Mesa-Big Bend; School of Art, University of Tulsa, Howdy Neighbor (pencil); Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Procession of the Saint-Santo Domingo; Library of Congress; Art Museum of South Texas, Irrigation-Taos; Phoenix Art Museum, Pedro the Zealot; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,Young Girl in Purple, Dust Bowl; Dallas Museum of Art, Norman, Rattlers (lithograph); Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Rattlers (lithograph); State of Oklahoma Art Collection, Red Earth Canyon; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Avalanche by Wind; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Soil and Subsoil; San Antonio Art League, Desert Glare (lithograph); Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, The Church at Rancho de Taos; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, Oil in the Sandhills; Witherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Grim Reaper (charcoal/ink); Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi.