Mission Statement

Raoul Hague established the framework of his foundation in the years before his death, to care for his sculptures and steer them into appropriate collections. Born Haig Heukelekian in Constantinople in 1905, Hague carved in his studio well into his last year, and died at the age of 88 in 1993. For half a century he lived a principled and somewhat isolated life in a primitive cabin on a wooded road which had once been the site of the rustic Maverick Artists Colony in Woodstock, New York. The house, studio and sculpture facilities are now maintained by the Raoul Hague Foundation. Along with our accumulating archives and the fascinating scrapbooks documenting the artist's intellectual and visual interests, these resources present an excellent opportunity for further research into this important sculptor of the New York School.

Hague's interaction with the massive tree trunks that were his chosen material, after his early years working in stone, produced some of the most impressive in-the-round sculpture to come from America in the second half of the 20th century. Pulsing with associative imagery from both the body and the landscape, his art investigates issues of abstraction that his friends, painters like Gorky, de Kooning and Guston, also engaged. The Foundation is fortunate to hold excellent examples of sculptures from the 1950s and 60s, when Dorothy Miller chose Hague for "Twelve Americans" at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956 and Charles Egan followed with shows at his gallery. The collection includes works from the 70s, 80s and 90s — the exceptional late flowering of his work exhibited at Xavier Fourcade and Lennon, Weinberg Gallery. Among them are extraordinary sculptures which have not yet been shown publicly.

The Raoul Hague Foundation has an ongoing Museum Donation Program, and encourages interested organizations to contact us.

Board of Directors
The Raoul Hague Foundation

Janis Ekdahl 
Donna Harkavy 
Holly Hughes 
Amy Wolf 

The Raoul Hague Foundation
P O Box 20394 London Terrace Station
New York, NY 10011
administrator@raoulhague.org