Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies

Edited by Elisabeth R. Fairman

Essays by Eileen Hogan, Duncan Robinson, Roderick Conway Morris, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, and Sarah Victoria Turner

Photographs by Sandra Lousada

Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press

272 pages, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4, 320 color illustrations, hardcover, ISBN: 9780300241471

Publication date: June 11, 2019

Description

The art and working methods of London artist Eileen Hogan (born 1946) are featured in this book, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Center in spring 2019. Covering her entire career, this publication focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist’s oeuvre—enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions of gardens range from London’s well-known Kew Gardens and Chelsea Physic Garden to Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. Her portraits include expressive sketches and paintings of veterans of the Second World War, and of HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. The book includes images from Hogan’s sketchbooks, her studies, and finished paintings, accompanied by striking photographs of the artist at work. Essays by scholars and Hogan herself trace the artist’s career from her student days at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts through the present. This volume provides an unprecedented, intimate look at the life and work of one of the most interesting and evocative artists working today.