Betty Hoag | |
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| Born | (1914-04-28)April 28, 1914 |
| Died | April 3, 2002(2002-04-03) (aged 87) |
| Education | Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, museum director |
| Mother | Elizabeth Lochrie |
Elizabeth Jane Lochrie Hoag McGlynn (28 April 1914 – 3 April 2002), most often known asBetty Hoag, was an American art collector, museum director, and art historian who specialized in painters of California and Hawaii, as well as in theNew Deal art of the 1930s.[1] In the 1960s she conducted dozens oforal history interviews with New Deal artists for the Smithsonian'sArchives of American Art.[2]
Hoag was born on April 28, 1914, inDeer Lodge, Montana. Her parents were artistElizabeth Lochrie and her father, Arthur J. Lochrie, was a former president of the Butte Miner's Bank. She married architect Paul Hoag and settled inWest Los Angeles and raised three children. She divorced and moved to Carmel and married painter Thomas McGlynn in 1967. She earned her undergraduate degree fromStanford University and a master's fromUniversity of Southern California.[a] She was the director of theTriton Museum of Art inSanta Clara, California. From 1967 to 1970, she was research director of the Carmel Art Museum in Carmel.[3][4]
Hoag died on April 3, 2002, at theCommunity Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula inMonterey, California, at the age of 88.