
Painter, illustrator, printmaker and teacher, born in Kendal, Westmorland, full name Arthur Paul Hogarth. Sometimes signed work P H. Studied at Manchester School of Art, St Martin’s School of Art and obtained doctorate at Royal College of Art. He was senior tutor in the faculty of graphic art there, 1964–71. In 1981 was commissioned by Imperial War Museum to depict the Berlin Wall. His work is also in Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Victoria & Albert Museum and many other public galleries in Britain and abroad. Hogarth was a Royal Designer for Industry, and was elected ROI, 1979, RA in 1984 and RE in 1988. Retrospective at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 1985; in 1990 his exhibition Cold War Reports 1947–67 was at Norfolk Institute of Art, with a tour; retrospective at Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1998.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)