Paul Hogarth: Artist, Journalist, World Traveler

Hogarth's sketches educate and inform with the depth of a savvy storyteller.

Leaping from sketching in the field to journalistic reportage often requires courage and collaboration. Courage to integrate oneself into the people and the moment. Collaboration by incorporating text or prose to the benefit of the story.

One who had both traits was the English artist Paul Hogarth (1917-2001). As the author of more than 20 books based on his travels around the world, he drew and put the people he met into his compositions with an exacting eye and an empathetic heart.

Chinatown and The Bowery from Brendan Behan’s New York © 1964 Paul Hogarth

He was a writer in his own right, but Hogarth collaborated with several eminent authors, most notably Brendan Behan, one of Ireland’s greatest authors. Their books about Ireland and New York are steeped in reality and nostalgia, through Behan’s words and Hogarth’s images of these people and places.