Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies

Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by Elizabeth R. Fairman and presented at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, from May 9 to August 11, 2019.

Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover. 272 pp. Pictorial boards with titles in white to spine and front. Endpapers illustrated with detail from Hogan's 2016 work Bluebells. Frontispiece Self-Portrait in Pembroke Studios, 2015. Abundant color photos of the works throughout.

VG. Clean, square, and firm. Subtle dusting at bottom fore page edge. Slightest stress to front hinge. Pages are bright and free of markings.

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This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it 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.