Hubert Rogers
1898 - 1992
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(Reginald) Hubert Rogers had an incredibly varied career, best known as an illustrator of pulp fiction magazines. For decades he worked for the American monthly Astounding Science Fiction where his art accompanied stories by the likes of Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Ron Hubbard, who went on to found the Church of Scientology. But Rogers also was known for his Second World War posters, portraits and, of course, landscapes.
Born in Prince Edward Island, he began his art training as a teenager, first at the Acadia Academy in Nova Scotia and then in Toronto where his high school art teacher introduced him to several Group of Seven members, including A.Y. Jackson, who became his lifelong friend and mentor.
He enlisted underage in the First World War at 17 and continued his art studies after the war in Boston and New York where he worked as an art editor for the Herald Tribune and later the New York Times.
In 1931, Rogers left New York on a motorcycle for Taos, New Mexico, where he worked in a community of artists passionate about landscape painting. When his magazine assignments mounted in 1936, he returned to New York but moved to Ottawa in 1942 to oversee the production of war posters, including the famous Men of Valour series.
After the war, he ventured into portraiture while continuing his magazine work until the early 1950s. In the last decades of his life, he shifted to landscapes, especially of Atlantic Canada.
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