Chief Alsate's Profile, Big Bend
Artist
Alexandre Hogue
(American, 1898 - 1994)
Date1981
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions40 x 56 inches (101.6 x 142.2 cm)
Frame: 41 3/4 x 58 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches (106 x 148 x 5.4 cm)
Frame: 41 3/4 x 58 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches (106 x 148 x 5.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 2005
Object number31.255.2
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextHogue’s art reveals a concern with the environment. Early in his career, he painted landscapes of the Dust Bowl. He portrayed the devastating effects of erosion, intensified by human activity. Later, he produced a series of paintings celebrating the stark beauty of Big Bend. In this work, he depicted a mountain that looks like the profile of a reclining man. Tradition links the mountain with Chief Alsate, leader of an Apache band whose territory included the Big Bend region. Hogue interpreted the land as barren, yet powerful by using abstracted forms and strong colors.
ProvenanceArtist [1]; purchased by Gilbert Waldman, Santa Fe, New Mexico; purchased March 20, 2005 through (Two Pines Art, Omaha, Nebraska, and Frank Croft Art of Santa Fe, New Mexico, representative for Gilbert and Nancy Waldman) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
| 1. The painting had been in a traveling exhibition and it was published in the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition. 31.255.2 is reproduced in that catalogue and cited as in the collection of the artist at that the time of the publication {DeLong, Lea Rosson. Nature's forms/nature's forces: the art of Alexandre Hogue/ Lea Rosson DeLong.Tulsa, Okla. : Philbrook/ University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1984. x, 211 p.}.
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