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Paul Hogarth (1917 - 2001)
1917 Born Kendal, UK
1921-23 Parents move to Manchester. Father opens butcher’s shop.
1936................Scholarship to the Manchester School of Art.
........................Involved in radical politics
........ Gives up Art School, joins the International Brigades and goes to fight in Spain
1937 Repatriated along with other youthful volunteers.
........................Attends life-drawing classes at St. Martins School of Art
1939 Receives call-up papers, but considered undesirable as member of the Communist Party.
........................Joins unit painting camouflage
1940 Works with Ministry of Information, creating propaganda posters such as Dig for Victory
1946-49 Assistant to James Boswell, director of Shell International
1947-48 To Yugoslavia, with Ronald Searle, Laurence Scarfe, Percy Horton and Francis Klingender.
........................Reported the building of a Youth Railway.
........................To Poland with Ronald Searle
1949-52 Art Editor of ‘Our Time’ and other magazines
1950-54 Tutor at Guildford School of Art and Central School of Art, London
1952 To Greece, depicting aftermath of Civil War
1953-54 Travels in Russia and behind the Iron Curtain
1954 To China with a cultural delegation including Hugh Casson and Stanley Spencer
1956 Passes through Hungary and on to Poland, witnessing attacks by riot police on crowds supporting Hungarians, ........................leading to his resignation from Communist Party.
........................To Rhodesia with Doris Lessing.
........................With Carel Weight, Betty Rae and John Berger organises and contributes to group exhibition, Looking at people, ........................which tours UK and is shown in Moscow, drawing total attendance of 350,000
1959 Senior tutor at Cambridge School of Art
1962 In New York with Brendan Behan. Works on a US magazine, ‘Fortune’
1963 Meets Robert Graves, Majorca. Later illustrates several of his book
1964 Senior Tutor at Royal College of Art, London
1965-73 Works with ‘Sports Illustrated’ in US. Returns to Russia
1968-69 On sabbatical from RCA , Professor at the Philadelphia College of Art
1980 First exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery, Travels through the Seventies.
........................Commission from Imperial War Museum to depictBerlin Wall
1983 Travels through the Winelands, Francis Kyle Gallery
1984 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
1985-86 Travels extensively for project with Grahame Greene. Graham Greene Country, Francis Kyle Gallery
1987-88 Travels in Mediterranean countries for project with Lawrence Durrell.
........................The Mediterranean Shore, Francis Kyle Gallery.
........................Paul Hogarth’s Shakespeare, Stratford-upon Avon
1991 Ports of Call: The Mediterranean, points west and down under, Francis Kyle Gallery
1992 A year in Provence, Francis Kyle Gallery
1995-96 To Croatia for the International Trust for Croatian Monuments.
........................In Croatia, Francis Kyle Gallery.
........................In Praise of Churches, Francis Kyle Gallery
1997 Escape to the sun, travels in D.H. Lawrence Country, Francis Kyle Gallery. Exhibition shown also . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. ...................Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham 1996, Hull University Gallery,1996, Kings Lynn Art Centre, 1997. Publication of ........................Autobiography, Drawing on Life
1998 Tuscany, Francis Kyle Gallery
2001 In Portugal, Francis Kyle Gallery.
........................Dies Gloucestershire
2010 Watercolours and Drawings 1953-2001 Part I, Francis Kyle Gallery
2013 Watercolours and Drawings 1953-2001 Part II, Francis Kyle Gallery
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