Ann Hogle was introduced to the figurative style when she attended a lecture given at Oregon’s Reed College, at which David Parks, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff spoke of their move from the abstract to the figurative. Hogle became one of the top figurative painters, working with William H. Brown, Joan Brown’s first husband.

One of her figurative paintings was thrown out of a show at Stanford in 1965 because of its explicit frontal nudity. This created a furor in all of the local papers and the entire show was pulled. This precipitated Hogle’s move from painting the figure to landscape painting and led to her becoming one of our preeminent contemporary landscape painters.

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