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Hogarth, Paul
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- Hoggarth, Paul; Hogarth, Arthur Paul
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1917-2001
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Paul Hogarth was a painter, printmaker, illustrator and teacher. Born in 1917 in Kendal, Westmorland. Studied at the Manchester School of Art, St Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, where he obtained a doctorate. During WWII he worked for the Ministry of Information and afterwards travelled extensively writing and illustrating several books, including: 'Looking at China', 1955; 'Majorca Observed' (with Robert Graves), 1965; 'Drawing Architecture', 1973; 'The Mediterranean Shore' (with Lawrence Durell); 1988. His early work was of a left-wing nature and he was associated with the Artists' Internatuional Association. He was senior tutor of drawing at Cambridge School of Art 1959-61 and from 1964-71, senior tutor in the faculty of graphic design at the RCA. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1974 and RA in 1984. He was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 1979 and awarded an OBE in 1989. He had a retrospective exhibition at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 1985; a touring exhibition 'Cold War Reports 1947-67', initially at the Norfolk Institute of Art, in 1990 and a further retrospective at Fosse Gallery, Stowe -on-the-Wold in 1998. His autobiography, 'Drawing on Life' was published in 1997. He settled at the National Trust's Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, moving to Cirencester shortly before his death on 27 December 2001. His work is held by many public galleries abroad and in Britain, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.in the grahic art faculty at the RCA, 1964-71.
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