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Artist Memorial
Margaret
B. Allen Hoag
(“Muggy”)
Grand Isle, VT,
USA (1916 - 1973)
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by
Jean D. Lotz
A
Non-Commercial, Educational Resource Copyright © 1999+
Jean D. Lotz Last Updated: 3/13/00
All images are included with
the permission of the copyright owners
PAGE 1 (about Margaret Hoag and
her dolls) | PAGE 2 (a wood doll class? and doll index)
all photos are thanks to David Hoag
- except where noted
The following statement, courtesy of
the NIADA Archive, was part of a 1980's slide presentation:
"Margaret Hoag was tragically
killed in a plane crash on her way to the UFDC National Convention in Louisville
in l973 where her dolls would have been displayed under the NIADA banner
for the first time. She was a skilled carver and had a love for
her medium, butternut wood, so that her dolls were never painted in such
as way as to hide the natural beauty of the wood. Only the features were
indicated in oils. She made natural hair wigs and dressed them in classically
simple little garments, and very few of her dolls are available since the
bulk of them perished in that plane crash with her."
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Maragret Hoag
photo thanks to David Hoag
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Was Margaret Hoag
planning a wood doll carving class?
Margaret enjoyed misc. arts and crafts
classes: painting, pottery, and etc. She readily shared her knowlege with
her friends and even co-founded a painting club.
By late 1970, I think Margaret was hoping
to teach a wood doll carving workshop or write a "how-to book", because
she was collecting carving samples and reference photos. Or was she collecting
this information to give a presentation of her work with an explanation
of her work processes to NIADA?
For whatever reason, she definately
wanted to show exactly how her dolls were made. She took several photos
of her old and new dolls undressed to illustrate the body styles. She took
photos of her dolls next to misc. doll parts to illustrate her carving
process. She even created a "workshop demonstration doll" (#122)
illustrating misc. doll parts in different stages of construction and how
each doll part related. |
References collected for
a class?
13.5" #122 - 1970
(unfinished workshop demonstrator)
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#123
showing swivel waist |
#124 compared to a blank
cut from her pattern
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Buffy #125 - 1972
body style of last dolls with doll parts
128, 129, and 130 |
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Index of Margaret
Hoag's Dolls
(thanks to David Hoag for
the following photographs and information from Margaret Hoag's notes)
Many of Margaret's surviving dolls are
in the collection of the Hoag family and members of the Green Mountain
Doll Club. One of her dolls, #115, is missing, lost or stolen. Many of
Margaret's dolls were on the fatal airplane crash and were destroyed along
with her. One doll, #124, survived the plane crash but was damaged. She
was found in the plane wreckage packed in a collector's carry-on luggage
missing 1-1/2 legs. Another doll, #125, survived the crash only because
she was left behind since she had been promised to a buyer.
The following dolls were
on the air plane and were destroyed in the crash:
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117 Daniel
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119 Meg and Meggy
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121 Bonnie
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127 Julie
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128 Robin
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129 Jan
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130 Leda
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131 Judy
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132 Lucy
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133 Carrie
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134 Ali 1973 - no photo is available
1964
and 1965
101 Annie 14" -
1964
(from McCall's pattern)
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102 Dorothy 14”
- 1964
(pin eyes; dowels
for upper arms and thighs)
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103 Lady Anne 13.5”
- 1965
(parts are all carved;
hand embroidered linen dress; synthetic hair)
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104 Lisa 20” - 1965
(doll glass eyes;
sturdy doll for guests with a large wardrobe)
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1966
1967
108 Mistress Dilly
Dolly 12” - 1967
(one piece arms
and legs; doll eyes)
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109 Missy 12.5”
-
1967
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110 Milady 12” -
1967
(pin eyes and carved
hair)
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111 Guilder 6.5
- 1967
[given to a sister]
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112 Joanna 18” -
1967
(doll glass eyes;
home-grown flax hair)
[given to daughter]
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1968
113 Lady Ellie 6.5”
- 1968
(glass doll eyes;
flax hair)
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114 Lady Ellspeth
[or Elspeth] 12.5” - 1968
(glass doll eyes;
flax hair, hand-knit linen lace)
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1969
115 Liz 6.5” - 1969
(bead eyes, mohair
wig)
115 is missing,
lost or stolen
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116 Penelope 12.5”
- 1969
(pin eyes; flax
hair)
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1970
117 Daniel 7.5”
- 1970
[the only boy doll]
~ destroyed in plane
crash ~
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118 Rebecca 14”
- 1970
(glass doll eyes;
synthetic hair)
[in collection of
Ruth Morrow]
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119 Meg and Meggy
7” - 1970
(flax hair; exhibited
at the Buffalo Convention)
~ destroyed in plane
crash ~
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120 Hannah 15.5”
- 1970
(doll eyes; synthetic
hair)
(exhibited at Green
Mt. Regional)
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#121 Bonnie 13.5”
- 1970
(glass doll eyes;
flax hair;
shells from 100,000
yr old Lake Vermont)
~ destroyed in plane
crash ~
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122 13.5" - 1970
(unfinished workshop
demonstrator)
[same pattern as
121]
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123 Libby 14” -
1970-71
(the only doll with
a swivel waist) |
1971,
1972, 1973
~ all were destroyed
in plane crash except where noted ~
124 Marianne 14.5”
- 1971
(carved
and painted eyes;
the
first of the natural wood series)
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found inside carry-on luggage from the
plane's
wreckage and damaged in the crash ~
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125 Buffy - 1972
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promised to a buyer,
thus
left behind and survived ~
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126 Lura - 1972
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131 Judy (flax?
hair)
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132 Lucy
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133 Carrie
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134 Ali - 1973
~ no photo is available
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