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Monday, October 30, 2000
Texas artist Dorothy Hood dies of cancer
HOUSTON (AP) — Dorothy Hood, who befriended Mexican artist
Jose Clemente Orozco and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and whose
abstract works hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and
the National Gallery in Washington, died Sunday of cancer.
Born in Bryan in 1919, Hood attended the Rhode Island School of
Design and the Art Students League in New York. During the 1940s,
she became friends with many of Latin America's artists, including
Orozco and Neruda, who wrote a romantic poem about her.
At that time, Hood also met composer and conductor Velasco Maidana,
the estranged son of a former president of Bolivia. He was, Hood
would say, a gentle, highly spiritual man and the greatest influence
in her life.
They settled in Houston in 1962, and were married for nearly 50
years, until his death in 1989. They did not have children.
“My mother told me art would always be my best friend,”
Hood was quoted as saying in Saturday's editions of the Houston
Chronicle. “And it has.”
Her lush, abstract paintings have been frequently compared to
the best American color-field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler.
Hood's work was included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York in 1958 and 1959, and in solo exhibitions at the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1963 and 1975. Her work also was shown
at the Contemporary Arts Museum in 1970, as well as numerous group
shows in Houston and elsewhere.
Until 1997, she showed new work regularly with her gallery, Meredith
Long & Co., and in a trio of exhibits held simultaneously
in Houston.
Hood was one of five American artists chosen in 1988 for coveted
Honor Award by Women's Caucus for Art, and the subject of documentary
film, “Dorothy Hood: The Color of Life,” which won the
American Film Festival Award in 1987.
No details about funeral or memorial services were available Sunday.
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