Dorothy Hood Art
American, 1919-2000
Dorothy Hood's oil-on-canvas paintings and works on paper combine Color Field techniques with painterly abstraction. Her use of decalcomania (a technique wherein paint pigments are allowed to flow and dry around an object which is subsequently removed, leaving a ghostly imprint on the canvas) belies her time spent with the Surrealist painters of Mexico City in the 1940s–60s.
The pictorial space and visual fissures of Hood’s large-scale paintings and works on paper recall a profound mindscape that echoes the concerns of these artists, such as José Clemente Orozco, who was her mentor. Having moved back to Houston in 1962, the impact of the Space Age and the fathoms of the cosmos influenced Hood’s paintings further. Her sense of color and deep exploration of materials is unrivaled. During her career, Hood appeared as one of the region's powerhouse female abstract painters, even though being a woman likely hindered the success she was due among her American Abstraction cohort.
Hood established herself as a pioneer of modernism from 1937, first as a scholarship student at the Rhode Island School of Design and briefly at the Art Students League in New York City, before settling in Mexico City in the 1940s. There, she would spend two decades embedded in the rich cultural fabric of a city in the midst of postwar and post-revolutionary bohemia. She befriended leading artists and intellectuals including Pablo Neruda, José Clemente Orozco, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Mathias Goeritz, Diego Rivera, and Rufino Tamayo.
In 1962 Hood returned to Houston and had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Rice University, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; and her work is in the permanent collections of numerous American museums. During her lifetime, Hood’s work, from her formally rigorous yet metaphysical and intimate abstract paintings, to ink drawings on paper and collages, garnered an impressive exhibition history and support from influential critics, curators, and collectors including Philippe de Montebello, Dorothy Miller, Clement Greenberg, and Barbara Rose, among others.
In 2016, the Art Museum of South Texas (AMST), Corpus Christi, organized a major retrospective of Hood's works and published a monograph about her life and career which culminated in the exhibition and book entitled The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: DOROTHY HOOD (1918–2000). In the fall of 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presented an exhibition entitled “Kindred Spirits, Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood,” mounting an unprecedented visual dialogue between the works of both artists. In 2019, McClain Gallery began representing the estate of the artist, held by the Art Museum of South Texas, and mounted a solo exhibition, “Dorothy Hood: Illuminated Earth.”
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Artist: Dorothy Hood
Binaki, Athens
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Binaki, Athens" is a collage on mat work by Dorothy Hood made between 1982-1997. The artwork size is 20 x 16 inches. The framed size is 26 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches. The work is s...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Eleftheroudakis
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Eleftheroudakis" is a collage on mat made by Dorothy Hood between 1982-1997. The artwork size is 20 x 16 inches. The framed size is 26 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches. The work is sign...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
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Mixed Media
The Terrible Parade
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Terrible Parade" is a collage on mat made by Dorothy Hood between 1982-1997. The artwork size is 20 x 16 inches. The framed size is 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 1 inches. The work is signe...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
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Mixed Media
Genies
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Genies" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, painted in 1956. The artwork size is 35 1/2 x 45 3/8 inches. The framed size is 37 x 47 x 2 inches. The work is signed lower ri...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Autumn
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Red Autumn" is a collage on mat made by Dorothy Hood between 1982-1997. The artwork size is 32 x 20 inches. The framed size is 36 3/8 x 24 1/4 x 2 inches. The piece is signed lower ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Going Forth V
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Going Forth V" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, made in 1997. The artwork size is 36 x 36 inches. The painting is signed upper right, "D Hood".
Provenance:
Dorothy Hoo...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Face in the Sea
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Face in the Sea" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, made in the 1970s. The artwork size is 70 x 60 inches.
For Hood, the sea and the infinite expanse of the cosmos a...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
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Canvas, Oil
Space Signals
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Space Signals" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, made in the 1970s. The artwork size is 89 3/4 x 70 inches.
When Dorothy Hood returned to Houston in 1962, to her delig...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pedernal
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Pedernal" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood, made in 1975. The artwork size is 35 x 27 inches. Signed verso, "D Hood".
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
New Gallery, Hous...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Waters
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Blue Waters" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood. The painting size is 90 x 70 inches.
Early in her maturation, Hood established herself as an artist of metaphysically cha...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gravity's Rainbow II
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Gravity's Rainbow II" is an oil on canvas painting made by Dorothy Hood circa 1994. The artwork size is 70 x 60 inches.
As Hood moved into the final years of her art and life, she ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
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Canvas, Oil
Tough Homage to Arshile Gorky
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Tough Homage to Arshile Gorky" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood. The artwork size is 89 3/4 x 50 inches. The framed size is 90 3/8 x 50 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. The piece is ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Vessel
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Black Vessel" is an oil on canvas painting made by Dorothy Hood circa 1970-1980. The artwork size is 70 1/8 x 60 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches.
At the core of Dorothy Hood's life and art is h...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Black Beauty)
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Black Beauty)" is an oil and acrylic on canvas painting made by Dorothy Hood in the 1990s. The artwork size is 48 x 60 inches. The piece is signed upper left, "D Hood".
D...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on canvas painting made by Dorothy Hood in the 1980s. The artwork size is 70 x 60 inches.
Hood often acknowledged that Arshile Gorky, Edvard Munch, Henri Matiss...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled II
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Dallas, TX
Dorothy Hood
Untitled II, 1982-1997
Collage on Mat
30 x 20
Following a 1981 trip to Egypt, hood collected printed papers which influenced her collage series for approximately a decade.
Category
20th Century Modern Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
A Taste of Moonlight
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Dallas, TX
Dorothy Hood
A Taste Of Moonlight, 1982-1997
Collage on Mat
30 x 20
Following a 1981 trip to Egypt, hood collected printed papers which influenced her collage series for approximate...
Category
20th Century Modern Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Dallas, TX
Dorothy Hood
Untitled, 1982-1997
Collage on Mat
30 x 20
Following a 1981 trip to Egypt, hood collected printed papers which influenced her collage series for approximately a decade.
Category
20th Century Modern Dorothy Hood Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
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DOROTHY HOOD (1918–2000)
Born in Bryan, Texas, Dorothy Hood studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Art Students League in New York. She then went to Mexico to further develop her skills and stayed for an extended length of time, traveling extensively through Central and South America. When she returned to Texas, she settled in Houston and was a prominent instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
1918 Born in Bryan, Texas
1937–40 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1940 Art Students League, New York, New York
1941–61 Lived in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico
1962–76 Instructor, Museum School (now Glassell School), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1983 Mayor’s Award, Outstanding Contribution to the Visual Arts, Houston, Texas
1984 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston, Texas
1988 Outstanding Achievement in Visual Arts, Women’s National Caucus for Art
1990 Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2000 Died...
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Find a wide variety of authentic Dorothy Hood art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Dorothy Hood in ink, paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 1960s and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Dorothy Hood art, so small editions measuring 25 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Henry Bayley Snell, Cody S. Brothers, and Mark Bowers.