Alexandre Hogue

ALEXANDRE HOGUE, 1918-2002

Alexandre Hogue is known for his Dust Bowl paintings of the American Southwest during the Great Depression. He viewed the Dust Bowl as a violation of “Mother Earth.” Hogue’s landscapes of the oil industry and farm, ranch life show a wasteland caused by human greed. The misery that people were experiencing during this time was not met with sympathy from this artist.

He described himself as an “abstract realist.” Hogue’s reasoning was “naturalism is not possible because every artist recreates a realistic landscape and changes it to fit their own idea of what the view really looks like.”