Welcome to Hagood Art
Contemporary Paintings of France and Flowers

Brown Hagood grew up in Evergreen, Alabama, and loved to draw throughout his childhood. But his first opportunity to study art came at Auburn University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-Medicine.
      After a stint in the Army, he received his Bachelor of Theatre Arts from the Pasadena Playhouse. “But I realized the drama that allowed me, personally, to experience life most fully was to be found in fine art and classical music.” (Hagood also plays the piano and composes.)
      He then went to New York and studied painting at the Art Students League with Robert Brackman and Morton Kaish. “Studying with Kaish was a major turning point, a revelation. He taught us various techniques and encouraged us to experiment. But more important to my artistic development were his inspiring critiques and a quote he once read to us from Paul Valéry – a quote that’s never far from my easel:
Let us imagine that the sight of  things that surround us is not familiar, that it
is allowed us as an exception, and that we only obtain by a miracle, knowledge

                   of the day, of human beings, of the heavens, of the sun…What would we say                                     about these revelations, in what terms would we speak of this wonderfully                                         adjusted data? What would we say of this distinct, complete and solid world, if                                   this world only appeared to us very occasionally?                                                                         “Another major influence, especially on my style, was my wife's aunt, Marguerite Fournials, a protégé of Guirand de Scevola. How many times I heard her say, ‘ll faut faire vibrer les couleurs et la lumière!'’ (‘You must make the colors and light vibrate!’)”                                                                        Ed McCormack of Gallery&Studio had this to say about Hagood’s work, “By…dramatic compositional contrasts, so unlike the diffused surfaces of Impressionism, Brown Hagood asserts his bold American identity… introduces an element of that raw romanticism that the writer Andrew Wilton refers to as ‘the American sublime.’”                                                                             Tony Cavanaugh of Artspeak wrote: “The absolute honesty of his approach is unique, and it is something for which those of us who still value painting as a medium for communicating feelings can only be grateful...Hagood demonstrates that a landscape painting can have the sheer visual impact of an Abstract Expressionist or Color Field canvas, yet also possess a lyrical literalness.             “It is Brown Hagood’s unselfconscious ability to introduce…art historical complexities into a composition that makes him, in his own refreshingly unassuming way, a highly original and valuable artist.”                                                                                                                                                          Hagood has presented five one-man shows at the National Arts Club in New York City where he has been an Exhibiting Artist Member for over 25 years, and a one-man show at the Lyric Gallery in Highland, New York.                                                                                                                                His paintings are in private collections across the United States, in France, and Japan.