TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME November 7 – December 20, 2014
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME FALL 2014 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE BY WILLIAM REAVES FINE ART
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
Texas Visions of an Earlier Time
An Exhibition of Historic Texas Art, Presented in Cooperation with Beuhler Fine Art The Texas art on the walls at William Reaves Fine Art assumes a more classic mode in a new exhibition called Texas Visions of an Earlier Time, as the gallery continues its quest to map the full gamut of historic Texas painting in its numerous projects and exhibitions. Over the summer and in its inaugural show at the new Westheimer location, WRFA has chosen to focus new light on mid-century modernism in Texas, contributing to exhibitions at City Hall (Houston Founders at City Hall) and One Allen Center (A New Visual Vocabulary…). Likewise, the city’s Texas-most gallery chose to open its ninth season with a superb exhibition entitled In Pursuit of the Sublime, featuring the works of two of the area’s most prominent modernists, Richard Stout and David Cargill. As all these shows reinforce, Houston and Southeast Texas modernists (including Cargill and Stout) hold merit among the best of their generation, producing worthy lifetime bodies of work based on a regional gestalt of strong formal educations, diverse experiences, solid work ethics, and dashes of personal artistic genius. Now, the gallery, in cooperation with a leading San Antonio counterpart, steps back a generation or two from Cargill, Stout and their contemporaries to consider the “best” of an even earlier era of Texas painting, examining a set of historic paintings produced by foremost artists of the first half of the twentieth century. In this newest exhibition, Texas Visions of an Earlier Time, Reaves and company offer patrons a “deep dive” into earlier eras of art within our state, presenting an interesting and diverse selection of 55 works by 45 pre-WW II artists. The gallery collaborates with leading San Antonio dealer, Paul Buehler, to offer the season’s first opportunity to view an extensive selection of historic Texas art in a single venue. The exhibition presents a strong field of early Texas Impressionism, including stalwarts of San Antonio’s pioneering school of landscape painters such as Julian Onderdonk, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Harry Anthony DeYoung, Eloise Polk McGill, Rolla Taylor, Porfirio Salinas, Robert Wood and others. Prime examples of early Houston founders such as Emma Richardson Cherry, Grace Spaulding John, Carden Baily and Ruth Pershing Uhler are also included in this show; as are Dallas luminaries such as Hale Bolton, Charles Bowling, Frank Klepper, Otis Dozier and Merritt Mauzey. Paintings
by early Fort Worth and El Paso artists, as well as selections of WPA-era photographs round-out the exhibition. The collection is noteworthy for its overall quality and significance. Many of the works included bear museum exhibition records and/or publication credits from the period. Two works in the show, for instance, were shown in the Texas Centennial Exhibition, still deemed among many as the single greatest art exhibition ever assembled on Texas soil. Several paintings were included among other important early exhibitions organized by such institutions as the Witte Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Austin Art league, etc., or shown in more recent exhibitions hosted by the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. Likewise the exhibition contains important examples of prominent of early art commissions documenting important historic events, such as Paul Schumann’s marine painting commemorating the U.S.S. Constitution’s 1932 visit to Galveston and Houston. In addition to strong examples of Texas Impressionism, the exhibition includes selections of the Texas regionalist school, including works from the 1940s by Otis Dozier and published prints by Merritt Mauzey, as well as examples of early Texas modernism from the mid-1940s. All-in-all, Texas Visions of an Earlier Time, offers patrons and collectors a worthwhile overview of the styles and progressions of Texas painting during the first half of the twentieth century, examining a period of roughly 1909 to 1950. While the exhibition presents many of the most important painters of the period, it also includes fine and interesting examples of artists whose work, while prominent during the period, is less well-known today. The show is a tribute to the quality and fortitude of these pioneering artists, whose work, both individually and collectively, shaped the very beginnings of the Texas art scene, and whose output and persistence served to establish an artistic bulwark in the state through which to inspire and challenge successive generations of Texas painters. For collectors of historic Texas materials, the exhibition will be a welcomed opportunity to view and learn more about these Texas artists and celebrate cherished visions of an earlier time. Enjoy! William Reaves, President
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
Texas Visions of an Earlier Time | Exhibition Checklist Image
Artist
Title
Date
Medium
Dimensions (inches)
1
Aceves, JosĂŠ
Desert Landscape
no date
oil on canvas
16x24
2
Bailey, Carden
House in Spring
no date
oil on canvas
25.25x28.25
3
Becker, Frederick W.
West Texas
c.1935
oil on canvas
16x20
4
Biggers, John
School and Schoolmates
c.1966
scratch on illustration board
10.5x13.5
5
Bolton, Hale
Fall Landscape
1911
oil on canvas
21x29
6
Bowling, Charles
Still Summer Day
c.1930
oil on canvas
24x20
7
Brants, Cynthia
Still life with Bones
1946
oil on canvas
19x32
8
Braun, Maurice
Landscape
c.1920
oil on canvas
12x16
9
Brisac, Edith Mae
Untitled
no date
oil on canvas
27.25x36.25
10
Cherry, Emma Richardson
Beam & Fog, Randolph Field
c.1942
oil on canvas
35.5x25.75
11
Cherry, Emma Richardson
Major Reid
1936
oil on canvas
40x28
12
Dawson-Watson, Dawson
Boat Scene
1930
oil on canvas
20.5x15.75
13
Dawson-Watson, Dawson
Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio
1939
oil on canvas
36x30
14
Dawson-Watson, Dawson
Texas Cactus
1928
oil on canvas
21x16
15
DeYoung, Harry Anthony
Untitled Landscape
c.1930
oil on canvas
24x28
16
Dozier, Otis
Arkansas River
1942
gouache on paper
11.25x15.75
17
Dozier, Otis
Grasshopper & Rooster
1945
oil on masonite
18x24
18
Dozier, Otis
Still Life with Dead Bird
1948
oil on board
10x18
19
Duran, Santa
Bluebonnets in San Antonio
1964
oil on board
12x16
20
Elmendorf, Stella Texas
Untitled (Barn)
1928
oil on canvas on board
12x16
21
Elmendorf, Stella Texas
Wash Day
no date
oil on board
18x24
22
Hohnstedt, Peter Lanz
Landscape
no date
oil on board
18x24
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
Texas Visions of an Earlier Time | Exhibition Checklist (cont’d) Image
Artist
Title
Date
Medium
Dimensions (inches)
23
Hoppe, Carl Thomas
Bluebonnets with Oaks
1953
oil on canvas
20x30
24
Hoppe, Carl Thomas
Untitled (Bluebonnets)
no date
oil on canvas
12x16
25
Keating, Mary Aubrey
Chili Queens
1927
watercolor on paper
10.5x12.25
26
Klepper, Frank
1934
oil on canvas on board
24x30
27
Lange, Dorothea
1937
vintage gelatin silver print
11x14
28
Lee, Russell
Feeding Hogs Migrants from Texas Camped on River Bottom near Holtville, Stamped FSA Hamburger Stand, Harlingen, Texas, Stamped FSA
1939
vintage gelatin silver print
8x10
29
Lester, William
Baseball Player at Bat
c.1950
oil on canvas board
30x24
30
Lester, William
Going for Bait
1957
oil on linen
44x30
31
Mauzey, Merritt
Early Spring, Ed. 20
c.1948
lithograph
10.25x13.25
32
Mauzey, Merritt
Good Earth, Ed. 20
c.1945
lithograph
6.5x16.5
33
Mauzey, Merritt
The Circuit Rider
c.1948
lithograph
14.5x11.75
34
McGill, Eloise Polk
Mission
no date
oil on canvas
24x26
35
McGill, Eloise Polk
Untitled (Bluebonnets)
no date
oil on canvas board
16x26
36
McLellan, Ralph D.
L.J. Dailey, San Marcos, TX
c.1925
watercolor and pencil on paper 9.75x13.75
37
Mydans, Carl
Dancing at Rosie's CafĂŠ, Texas, 16/250
1937
gelatin silver print
11x14
38
Nabinger, Dollie
Country House with Oak
c.1950
oil on board
16x20
39
Onderdonk, Julian
A Gray Day, Sullivan County, New York
1909
oil on board
13x17
40
Phenix, Harold
Coahoma
c.1960
watercolor on paper
13.5x20
41
Pohl, Hugo
Sunday Afternoon
no date
oil on board
8x13
42
Raba, Ernst
San Antonio, Texas
1925
oil on canvas
16.25x20.25
43
Raba, Ernst
Twin Sisters, San Antonio, Texas
c.1926
oil on board
12x20
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
Texas Visions of an Earlier Time | Exhibition Checklist (cont’d) Image
Artist
Title
Date
Medium
Dimensions (inches)
44
Salinas, Porfirio
c.1950
oil on canvas
20x24
45
Salomon, Solomon
The Road to Utopia The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson, 1864 after Everett B D Julio
1917
oil on canvas
30x24
46
Salt, Anastasia
Centennial Sue
1936
watercolor on paper
13.25x17.75
47
Schumann, Paul R.
On Texas Waters: USS Constitution
1932
oil on canvas
34x40
48
Slayton, Billye
Slaughter House
no date
oil on board
16x20
49
Slimp, Altie
Texas Cowgirl: Bebe
1948
oil on canvas
30x24
50
Smith, Emilie Guthrie
Portrait of a Young Girl
1948
oil on canvas
28x22
51
Spaulding John, Grace
The Lighted Candle
1923
oil on board
24x20
52
Taylor, Rolla
Landscape with Verbenas
c.1920
oil on canvas
16x24
53
Thurston, Eugene
Clouds Over Sacramentos
1967
oil on board
9x12
54
Tupel, Albert A.
Dallas Skyline from the City Hall
c.1930s
watercolor on paper
13x17.75
55
Uhler, Ruth Pershing
Untitled Landscape (Turquoise Mine)
1936
oil on masonite
19.75x29.25
56
White, Jessie Aline
The Round Up No. 2
no date
watercolor on paper
11.25x17.5
57
Wood, Robert
Hill Country Landscape with Bluebonnets
c.1940
oil on canvas
30x40
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
1. JosĂŠ Aceves, Desert Landscape, no date, oil on canvas, 16x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
2. Bailey Carden, House in Spring, no date, oil on canvas, 25.25x28.25 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
3. Frederick W. Becker, West Texas, c.1935, oil on canvas, 16x20 inches.
4. John Biggers, School and Schoolmates, c.1966, scratch on illustration board, 10.5x13.5 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
5. Hale Bolton, Fall Landscape, 1911, oil on canvas, 21x29 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
6. Charles Bowling, Still Summer Day, c.1930, oil on canvas, 24x20 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
7. Cynthia Brants, Still Life with Bones, 1946, oil on canvas, 19x32 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
8. Maurice Braun, Landscape, c.1920, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.
9. Edith Mae Brisac, Untitled, no date, oil on canvas, 27.25x36.25 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
10. Emma Richardson Cherry, Beam & Fog, Randolph Field, c.1942, oil on canvas, 35.5x25.75 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
11. Emma Richardson Cherry, Major Reid, 1936, oil on canvas, 40x28 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
12. Dawson Dawson-Watson, Boat Scene, 1930, oil on canvas, 20.5x15.75 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
13. Dawson Dawson-Watson, Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, 1939, oil on canvas, 36x30 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
14. Dawson Dawson-Watson, Texas Cactus, 1928, oil on canvas, 21x16 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
15. Harry Anthony DeYoung, Untitled Landscape, c.1930, oil on canvas, 24x28 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
16. Otis Dozier, Arkansas River, 1942, gouache on paper, 11.2515.75 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
17. Otis Dozier, Grasshopper & Rooster, 1945, oil on masonite, 18x24 inches.
18. Otis Dozier, Still Life with Dead Bird, 1948, oil on canvas, 10x18 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
19. Santa Duran, Bluebonnets in San Antonio, 1964, oil on board, 12x16 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
20. Stella Texas Elmendorf, Untitled (Barn), 1928, oil on canvas on board, 12x16 inches.
21. Stella Texas Elmendorf, Wash Day, no date, oil on board, 18x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
22. Peter Lanz Hohnstedt, Landscape, no date, oil on board, 18x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
23. Carl Thomas Hoppe, Bluebonnets with Oaks, 1953, oil on canvas, 20x30 inches.
24. Carl Thomas Hoppe, Untitled (Bluebonnets), no date, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
25. Mary Aubrey Keating, Chili Queens, 1927, watercolor on paper, 10.5x12.25 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
26. Frank Klepper, Feeding Hogs, 1934, oil on canvas on board, 24x30 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
27. Dorothea Lange, Migrants from Texas, Camped on River Bottom near Holtville, Stamped FSA, 1937, vintage gelatin silver print, 11x14 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
28. Russell Lee, Hamburger Stand, Harlingen, Texas, Stamped FSA, 1939, vintage gelatin silver print, 8x10 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
29. William Lester, Baseball Player at Bat, c.1950, oil on canvas board, 30x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
30. William Lester, Going for Bait, 1957, oil on linen, 44x30 inches.
31. Merritt Mauzey, Early Spring, Ed. 20, c.1948, lithograph, 10.25x13.25 inches.
33. Merritt Mauzey, The Circuit Rider, c.1948, lithograph, 14.5x11.75 inches. 32. Merritt Mauzey, Good Earth, Ed. 20, c.1945, lithograph, 6.5x16.5 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
34. Eloise Polk McGill, Mission, no date, oil on canvas, 24x26 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
35. Eloise Polk McGill, Untitled (Bluebonnets), no date, oil on canvas board, 16x26 inches.
36. Ralph D. McLellan, L.J. Dailey, San Marcos, TX, c.1925, watercolor and pencil on paper, 9.75x13.75 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
37. Carl Mydans, Dancing at Rosie’s Café, Texas, 16/250, 1937, gelatin silver print, 11x14 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
36. Dollie Nabinger, Country House with Oak, c.1950, oil on board, 16x20 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
39. Julian Onderdonk, A Gray Day, Sullivan County, New York, 1909, oil on board, 13x17 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
40. Harold Phenix, Coahoma, c.1960, watercolor on paper, 13.5x20 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
41. Hugo Pohl, Sunday Afternoon, no date, oil on board, 8x13 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
43. Ernst Raba, Twin Sisters, San Antonio, Texas, c.1926, oil on board, 12x20 inches. 42. Ernst Raba, San Antonio, Texas, 1925, oil on canvas, 16.25x20.25 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
44. Porfirio Salinas, The Road to Utopia, c.1950, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
45. Solomon Salomon, The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson, 1864 after Everett B. D. Julio, 1917, oil on canvas, 30x24 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
46. Anastasia Salt, Centennial Sue, 1936, watercolor on paper, 13.25x17.75 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
47. Paul Schumann, On Texas Waters: USS Constitution, 1932, oil on canvas, 34x40 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
48. Billye Slayton, Slaughter House, no date, oil on board, 16x20 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
49. Altie Slimp, Texas Cowgirl: Bebe, 1948, oil on canvas, 30x24 inches.
50. Emilie Guthrie Smith, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1948, oil on canvas, 28x22 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
51. Grace Spaulding John, The Lighted Candle, 1923, oil on board, 24x20 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
52. Rolla Taylor, Landscape with Verbenas, c.1920, oil on canvas, 16x24 inches.
53. Eugene Thurston, Clouds over Sacramentos, 1967, oil on board, 9x12 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
54. Albert A. Tupel, Dallas Skyline from the City Hall, c.1930s, watercolor on paper, 13x17.5 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
55. Ruth Pershing Uhler, Untitled Landscape (Turquoise Mine), 1936, oil on masonite, 19.75x29.25 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
56. Jessie Aline White, The Round Up No. 2, no date, watercolor on paper, 11.25x17.5 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
57. Robert Wood, Hill Country Landscape with Bluebonnets, c.1940, oil on canvas, 30x40 inches.
TEXAS VISIONS OF AN EARLIER TIME
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