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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALEXANDRE HOGUE EXHIBIT AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Nature's Forms/Nature's Forces: The Art of Alexandre Hogue, an exhibition
organized by the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opens at the Dallas Museum
of Art on February 3 and continues through March 17, 1985. This exhibit spans
Hogue's impressive career, ranging from a student drawing completed in 1908 through
his most recent work in 1984.
Hogue lives on a 240-acre ranch north of Tulsa where he has converted a well
house into a studio. Throughout his long career as an artist, Hogue has been concerned
with nature and its myriad forms, particularly in his native Southwest. Initially
a painter of the picturesque country and people around Taos, New Mexico, Hogue gained
national attention in the 1930s as the foremost painter of the Dust Bowl. During
this important period he lived and worked in Dallas, becoming part of one of the
strongest regional schools of artists in the country. In 1937, his powerful paintings
of the ravages of the soil, including Drouth Stricken Area, now in the Dallas Museum,
were featured in Life Magazine. As one of the acknowledged leaders of a group of Texas
artists called "The Dallas Nine," Hogue also helped form the Lone Star Printmakers in
1938, an organization that distributed prints of Southwestern scenes to a wide
audience.
In the early 1940s, Hogue accepted a permanent teaching position at the University
of Tulsa, a post he held until his retirement in 1968. His painting style changed as
well, towards a greater abstraction and experimentation with the formal elements of-MORE-
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Dallas Museum of Art. Nature's Forms/Nature's Forces: The Art of Alexandre Hogue [Press Release], text, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth224984/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Museum of Art.