Paul Arthur Hogarth, 1917-2001

Paul Hogarth was born in Kendal, Cumbria, on 4 October 1917. He was christened Arthur Paul but preferred to use Paul as his first name. His family name was Hoggarth but he subsequently adopted the spelling Hogarth. In 1923 the family moved to Manchester where Hogarth attended the Manchester School of Art from 1933(4) to 1936 before moving to London and studying at St Martin's School of Art. During this period he became politically active becoming involved with the Artists International Association, joining the Communist Party and spending a brief spell with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

During the Second World War Hogarth worked for the Design Research Unit and at Carlton Studios for the Ministry of Information. After the war he worked as an assistant to the artist James Boswell at Shell International and as the art editor on a number of literary magazines. He also began to travel extensively both to draw and to organise exhibitions in Eastern Europe and China.

From 1950 to 1951 Hogarth taught at the Guildford School of Art, from 1951 to 1954 at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, from 1959 to 1962 at the Cambridge Art School and from 1964 to1971 at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1968-1969 he was associate professor of illustration at the Philadelphia College of Art, USA. Paul 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.

Paul Hogarth was married four times: to Doreen Courtman; Phyllis Hayes; Pat Douthwaite, with whom he had a son, Toby, and to Diana Hogarth (ne Cochran), who survives him. Paul Hogarth died in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on 27 December 2001.

From the guide to the Paul Hogarth Archive, 1910-2000, (Manchester Metropolitan University, Sir Kenneth Green Library)