Betty Hoag

Betty Hoag
Born	(1914-04-28)April 28, 1914 Deer Lodge, Montana
Died	April 3, 2002(2002-04-03) (aged 87) Monterey, California
Nationality	American
Education	Stanford University
Occupation(s)	Historian, museum director
Parent	Elizabeth Lochrie (mother)

Elizabeth Jane Lochrie Hoag McGlynn (28 April 1914 – 3 April 2002), most often known as Betty Hoag, was an American art collector, museum director, and art historian who specialized in painters of California and Hawaii, as well as in the New Deal art of the 1930s. In the 1960s she conducted dozens of oral history interviews with New Deal artists for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.

Biography

Hoag was born on April 28, 1914, in Deer Lodge, Montana. Her parents were artist Elizabeth Lochrie and her father, Arthur J. Lochrie, was a former president of the Butte Miner's Bank. She married architect Paul Hoag and settled in West Los Angeles and raised three children. She divorced and moved to Carmel and married painter Thomas McGlynn in 1967. She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an masters from University of Southern California. She was the director of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California. From 1967 to 1970, she was research director fo the Carmel Art Museum in Carmel.

California Revealed, a project of the California State Library, has digitized the oral history interviews by Betty Hoag McGlynn conducted from 1964 to 1965 with California artists. The interviews can be accessed online at the Monterey Museum of Art.

Hoag died on April 3, 2002, at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California, at the age of 88.