Featured Artist at the e.Gallery: Alexandre Hogue


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Today’s Featured Artist at the e.Gallery is a 20th Century artist of the American_Regionalist movement, Alexandre Hogue [American, 1898-1994] Link: http://fineart.elib.com/fineart.php?dir=Alphabetical/Hogue_Alexandre

Artist and teacher,
Alexandre Hogue was born in Memphis, Missouri, on February
22, 1898, and grew up in Denton, Texas. After graduating from high
school in Dallas, he attended the Minneapolis College of Art and
Design and later worked as a commercial artist in New York City. In
1925 he returned to Dallas to devote himself to painting and for
several years made annual sketching trips to the Davis Mountains
and Big Bend country of Texas or to Taos, New Mexico, which he
first visited in 1920. His painting Studio Corner, Taos was exhibited
at the National Academy of Design in 1928. The following year he
mounted his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.


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Procession of the Saint – Santo Domingo

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Desert Glare

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Avalanche by Wind

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Young Girl in Purple
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