His paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Frequently his canvases are in an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade, and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element in his work. The only human evidence in his paintings is the occasional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk - a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing landscape. His work is included in over two hundred private co