Monday, October 20, 2025

Raoul Hague

Raoul Hague
Standing Figure
1938
wood
(Federal Art Project photograph)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC


Raoul Hague
Girl on Bench
1938
marble
(Federal Art Project photograph)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Raoul Hague
Claverack Walnut
1946
wood
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Raoul Hague
Figure in Elm
1948
wood
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Raoul Hague
Stillwater
1952
wood
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Raoul Hague
Lamontville Elm
1952
wood
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Raoul Hague
Walnut
1953
wood
Art Institute of Chicago

Raoul Hague
Sawkill Walnut
1955
wood
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Raoul Hague
Woodland Valley Poplar
1960
wood
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Raoul Hague
Sculpture in Walnut
1962
wood
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Raoul Hague
Untitled
1962
wood
Seattle Art Museum

Robert Frank
Raoul Hague with Marvin Israel, Woodstock NY
1962
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Raoul Hague
Margaretville Walnut
1964
wood
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Raoul Hague
Angel Millbrook Walnut
1964
wood
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Robert Frank
Raoul Hague with his sculpture Angel Millbrook Walnut
1964
gelatin silver print
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Raoul Hague
Untitled
1972
wood
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Raoul Hague
Glorious Storm
1986
wood
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from Punica

[Juno chooses Hannibal to oppose Rome]

Again she Arms prepares. One Captain may
Suffice Her to embroil the Earth, and Sea.
And He was Hannibal, who now puts on
All Her dire Fury. Him she dares alone
Ev'n 'gainst the Fates oppose.

                              *

This said, the Youth, who nothing else desires,
But Broils, and Wars, with Martial thoughts she fires.
Faithless, repleat with Guilt, Unjust was He,
And, when once arm'd contemn'd the Deity;
Valiant, but Cruel, hating Peace, and fir'd
With a strange Thirst of Humane Blood, desir'd,
Then, in His pride of Youth, to wipe away
His Father's stains,* and i'th' Sicilian sea 
To drown all Leagues.  Juno, with Hope of Praise,
Inflames his Heart, to which His Soul obeys.
Now in his Dreams, He seems to break into
The Capitol, and o're the Alps to go:
On in His troubled Sleep, rising by Night,
With horrid Cries His Servants hee'd affright;
Who found Him, bath'd in Sweat, His future War
To wage, and beat with Rage the empty Air.

– Silius Italicus (AD 25-101), translated by Thomas Ross (1661) 

*Hannibal's father Hamilcar had been driven out of Sicily by the Romans