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| Paul Hogarth by William Smith in 1969 |
When I was a student at Cambridge Art School, Paul Hogarth RA (1917 � 2001), the famous reportage artist, was a visiting lecturer. He encouraged us to 'go out and draw' and 'use our eyes'. Good advice. It really hones your observational skills.
Paul Hogarth was born in 1917 in Kendal, Cumbria. In 1923 his family and he moved to Manchester. He attended the Manchester School Of Art from 1934 to 1936, where he became involved in the Artists' International Association and the Communist Party of Great Britain. After 1936 he attended St Martins College in London, and fought in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigade.
Paul Hogarth was one of the most prolific and successful commercial artists of his day, a painter in watercolours, an illustrator and printmaker, he is probably best known for his images of the faraway and exotic, with a sensitivity to architecture.
Through his commitment to the radical Left in the 1950s which involved working trips to China, the USSR and the Soviet satellite states, to the time he spent living and working in the United States, Paul's drawings and paintings represent an important and unique record of six decades of world history. His love of travel and his unique ability to gain an insight into other cultures did not diminish through the years, as his 1995 trip to Croatia and subsequent exhibitions demonstrated.
Literature was another great force in Paul's life and it is through his collaborations with celebrated writers including Doris Lessing, Brendan Behan, Graham Greene, Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell that Paul's work became familiar to millions across the globe.
These have appeared in his own books and lithographs and also in collaboration with such distinguished writers as Robert Graves, Graham Greene and Lawrence Durrell. He illustrated a large format edition of Peter Mayles 'A Year In Provence' and painted watercolours to illustrate an anthology of John Betjemans essays 'In Praise of Churches', bringing him wide recognition across the globe.
From 1959 to 1962 he was Senior Tutor at the Cambridge School of Art and from 1964 to 1971 at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1968-1969 he was associate professor of illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art, USA. Hogarth was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1974 and to full membership in 1984. He became honorary president of the Association of Illustrators in 1982 and he received an O.B.E. in 1989. In 1999 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts by Manchester Metropolitan University.
In 1967 at Cambridge we were set a reportage project drawing London markets over a period of a week. I did drawings of Leadenhall Market, Smithfield meat market, the original Covent Garden fruit & vegetable market, and the original Billingsgate fish market in Lower Thames Street. Here is one of my drawings of Billingsgate and Paul Hogarth's influence is clear. I remember he liked these drawings.
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| Billingsgate Market 1967 pencil on paper � Poul Webb |
My thanks go to the estate of Paul Hogarth - Diana Hogarth and Simon Robson for their cooperation and permission and to publish these blog posts. For more information on Paul Hogarth and for limited edition prints visit www.paulhogarth.co.uk (There is a direct link in the "Links" column in the sidebar)
This is part 1 of a 3-part post on the works of Paul Hogarth:
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| 1952 Athens Cinema copyright � Estate of Paul Hogarth |
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| 1961 Penguin Books. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves |
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| 1961 Penguin Books. The Trial of Lady Chatterley |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. Pincher Martin by William Golding |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Goddam White Man by David Lytton |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Patriots by James Barlow |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Quiet American by Graham Greene |
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| 1962 Penguin Books. The Vodi by John Braine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine |
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| 1963 Fortune magazine cover |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. The Outsider by Albert Camus |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories by Ernest Heminway |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway |
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| 1965 Penguin Books. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. Animal Farm by George Orwell |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. My Friend Judas by Andrew Sinclair |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. Stamboul Train by Graham Greene |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. The Fall by Albert Camus |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene |
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| 1963 Penguin Books. Memories of a Catholic Childhood by Mary McCarthy |
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| 1964 Brendan Behan's New York |
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| 1964 Brendan Behan's New York |
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| 1964 Brendan Behan's New York |
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| 1964 Brendan Behan's New York |
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| 1964 Brendan Behan's New York |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. Stamboul Train by Graham Greene |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. The Sovereigns by Roger Vailland |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. The Tempter by Anthony Bloomfield |
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| 1964 Penguin Books. What Makes Sammy Run? by Bud Schulberg |
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| 1966 Penguin Books. King Solomon's Mines by Rider Haggard |
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| 1967 Penguin Books. The Comedians by Graham Greene |
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| 1967 Penguin Books. The Comedians by Graham Greene | |
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| 1969 Penguin Books. May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene |
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| 1970 Penguin Books. Collected Essays by Graham Greene |
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