Chronology
1905
Hague is born in Constantinople, Turkey.
1921
Hague moves to the United States to attend Iowa State College in Ames.
1922
Hague studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
1925-29
Hague moves to New York, studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the Art Students League.
Met John Flannagan, William Zorach, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning.
Begins carving in stone, and made first visits to Woodstock, New York.
1931
Hague becomes a United States citizen.
1932-33
Hague meets Dorothy C. Miller and her husband Holger Cahill who included his work in The Museum of Modern Art exhibition “American Sources of Modern Art.”
1945-48
Hague begins working exclusively in wood. Meets Bradley Walker Tomlin, Philip Guston, and Arshile Gorky.
1950
Hague travels to London, attended Courtauld Institute, and continued to Paris, Rome, Greece and Egypt.
1954
Private exhibition of recent wood sculptures in New York, to which critics, dealers and curators were invited.
1956
Exhibits as part of “Twelve Americans,” at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated by Dorothy C. Miller.
1960
Exhibits as part of the “Inaugural Exhibition” at the Munson- Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York.
1961
Hague receives Ford Foundation Award.
1962
First solo exhibition, at Charles Egan Gallery, New York.
Participates in Hirshhorn Collection Sculpture show at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Particpates in “Continuity and Change,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, curated by Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr.
1964
Retrospective exhibition organized by Gerald Nordland, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
1967
Hague receives the Guggenheim Memorial Award.
1972
Hague receives the Mark Rothko Foundation Grant.
1973
Hague receives the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award.
1978
Portfolio of photographs of Hague’s sculpture taken by Robert Frank in 1955 and by Lee Friedlander in 1976 are published by Eakins Press.
1979
Solo exhibition, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York.
“Centennial Exhibition,” Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
1981
“Tracking the Marvelous,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, organized by John Bernard Myers (catalogue).
1983
Retrospective exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois, “American Accents,” curated by Henry Geldzahler.
1984
“Forming,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess.
Sculpture exhibition at One Penn Plaza, New York, organized by Dore Ashton.
1985
“The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Lisa Phillips.
1986
Solo exhibition, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
1987
Solo exhibition, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York.
1989
Solo exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York.
1989-90
“Out of Wood: Recent Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York.
1990
Solo exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York.