A Midcentury Montage: A r t Wo r k s b y T h r e e H o u s t o n F o u n d e r s
DAVID ADICKES
Aug 28 - Sept 19, 2015 Wi l l i a m Re ave s F i n e A r t
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A Midcentury Montage: A r t Wo r k s b y T h r e e H o u s t o n F o u n d e r s
Aug 28 - Sept 19, 2015
Exhibition Events Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29th, 6 - 8:30 p.m. Artist Talk - David Adickes: Saturday, September 12th, 2 - 4 p.m. Artist Talk - Henri Gadbois & Leila McConnell: Saturday, September 19th, 2 - 4 p.m.
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A Midcentury Montage: Art Works by Three Houston Founders To inaugurate its 10th Year Anniversary Season, William Reaves Fine Art presents an alluring montage of local midcentury masters. In Midcentury Montage the gallery features an exquisite collection of period paintings by David Adickes, accompanied by finely sculpted foodstuffs by Henri Gadbois, and recent paintings and collages by Leila McConnell. The show offers a tribute to these three Houston greats, who all have been mainstays of the Bayou City arts scene since the fifties, and are still actively engaged in creative production well into their eighth decade. Like the artists, selections in Midcentury Montage are fun, inventive and timeless. With three such esteemed local masters, the show accentuates the signature attributes of grand Houston art. As the gallery’s “season opener”, Midcentury Montage offers viewers a delightful segue into yet another highly-anticipated season of high art from the Lone Star state, continuing the hearty track record of prime Texas material that locals have come to expect from Reaves and company! By now, we suspect that most Houstonians with even a scintilla of interest in the arts are familiar with David Adickes! Always-colorful and entertaining, Adickes represents perhaps the quintessential Texas “modernist”! While known by today’s generation as a sculptor of presidential heads and huge concrete statues, Adickes was actually one of the city’s most recognized and accomplished midcentury painters. Originally, from Huntsville, he bounded onto the Houston scene in 1950, after completion of a wartime stint in the U.S. Army Air Corp, a degree in physics at Sam Houston State Teachers College, and subsequent art training in Paris at the storied atelier of Cubist pioneer, Fernand Leger. Talented and engaging, Adickes, along with his friend Herb Mears, introduced a newly imported “School of Paris” style to Houston’s emergent art scene. The result was an immediate embrace and instant acclaim from an ever-admiring constituency, including many of the city’s leading art patrons (such as John DeMenil and Nina Cullinan). As a “new-comer”, Adickes notched a “sell-out” at his very first local show in 1950 at the fabled Shamrock Hotel. Ruth Uhler awarded him a small, yet highly noted, one-man exhibition at the MFAH the following year that further propelled his meteoric rise on the local scene. He joined Ben DuBose at Bute Gallery, and
from there his sales and popularity continued their rapid ascent; his paintings quickly becoming coveted appointments in the homes and offices of city elites. While maintaining Houston and Dubose gallery as his “home base”, Adickes launched a series of international forays in the latter 1950s, returning to Europe (France, Spain, Italy) and then on to Japan, where he was befriended, written about and collected by Pulitzer Prize writer, James A. Michener. He joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin for a while, leaving there after two years to travel to Tahiti to commune on the island with Gaugin’s son. Meanwhile, he expanded gallery affiliations on both coasts, attracting high-end collectors among the rich and famous of New York, Palm Beach and Los Angeles, the likes of which included Elvis Presley and other notables! An inexhaustible painter, Adickes perfected his cubistinspired style and subject matter over a long and notable career. His oeuvre most often reflects the wiry figures for which he has especially become known (“Adickes-men”), as well as blocky still-lives replete with his classic elongated bottle forms. Many of the artist’s earliest and best examples of these subjects may be seen in this exhibition. Always a sculptor, Adickes began to “work large” in his later career, concentrating primarily on large-scale public installations over the last several decades. In this line, the artist has successfully created concrete monuments that have now become iconic Texas landmarks, such as “Big Sam” near his native Huntsville and the majestic Stephen F. Austin statue in the Brazosport area. Today, at eighty-eight, Adickes is at work on his tallest project yet, a memorial to NASA’s astronaut program, destined for a Clear Lake installation. In Midcentury Montage, we return to Adickes’ original work, displaying a definitive selection of the early paintings that brought him his first notoriety. These early works represent the artist’s original views and formative renditions of his most favored subjects and themes. With their distinctive style and superb workmanship, Adickes’ paintings were incredibly fresh and novel when he first introduced them to Houston in the early 1950s. Even today, they retain classic “modernist” qualities in their subject matter, style and composition. Looking at these works today, there is little wonder why Houston’s earliest midcentury collectors clamored for Adickes’ works back then,
and given those auspicious beginnings, there should be little surprise as well that over the half-century since, David Adickes has become a household name in the Houston community. Likewise, Henri Gadbois and Leila McConnell are also founders and longtime mainstays of the Houston art community. Like Adickes, this talented duo has contributed significantly to the quality and vibrancy of the Bayou City art scene since the 1950s. Gadbois, a native Houstonian and the son of a local painter and commercial artist, is a graduate of the University of Houston art department. McConnell is a product of the Rice University architectural program and the San Francisco School of Fine Art. The couple met and married in Houston in 1956, and have shared remarkable careers as artists and instructors ever since. Both held tenures at The Museum School at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Gadbois served over 30 years as a public school art teacher in the Houston Independent School District. They have been popular and prolific artists over a six-decade span, having their paintings avidly collected and shown by some of the city’s most prominent galleries over the years, including Cushman, DuBose, Marsters and Muth, (and now, of course, William Reaves Fine Art). Both artists remain vital and active well into their eighties, and in Midcentury Montage we show examples of their most recent output, in Gadbois’ case, focusing on his unique ceramic still-lives (faux foods) and for McConnell, concentrating on recent collages and paintings. While Gadbois worked in ceramics early in his career, it has only been in recent years that the artist perfected his imaginative line of “faux foods”—a sculpted selection of fresh foods and vegetables cast in ceramic. His ceramic food-forms are now proudly displayed as combination art works and exhibition artifacts on the tables of the nation’s most prominent residential museums, including Houston’s own Bayou Bend. We are proud to present these unique still-lives for the first time within a gallery context, as endearing additions to Texas art collections. Leila McConnell is renowned as an important member of Houston’s abstract-expressionist school, her ethereal series of “sky paintings” and intimate collages rivaling those of Dorothy Hood, and ranking her
among the city’s earliest women abstractionists. In this exhibition, we examine a selection of the artist’s most recent works in both realms. Certainly, there has been a resurgence of interest and scholarship in Midcentury Modernism in Texas. We now know that Houston artists such as Adickes, Gadbois and McConnell, as well as their colleagues within the city, were at the very forefront of the modern art revolution that transformed the city and state during that period. The artists of Midcentury Montage are truly among the Founders of our city’s dynamic art scene of today, and as a gallery devoted to Texas art, we are indebted to each of them for their creative efforts and accomplishments over the years. More importantly, however, and as can be seen in the selections included here, Houston art-goers are equally fortunate to be the continued beneficiaries of their creative energies and output, each still clearly producing strong and engaging work. We are proud to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary season with this distinguished trio! - William Reaves
David Adickes • Aug 28 - Sept 19, 2015 No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
1
David Adickes
Abacus
1958
2
David Adickes
Actors 1956 oil on board 18 x 14.5
3
David Adickes
Bait Shop Galveston
1951
oil on board
13 x 15.5
4
David Adickes
Boats with Yellow Sky
1953
oil on board
10.5 x 13.75
5
David Adickes
Des Hommes 1/10 1950 lithograph 11.5 x 14.5
6
David Adickes
First Tree with Bicycle
7
David Adickes
Five Vingnettes c. 1960 watercolor 17 x 21
8
David Adickes
Grey Still Life 1960 oil on canvas 27.5 x 15.5
9
David Adickes
Lady in Lavender
1968
oil on canvas
30 x 26
10
David Adickes
Le Melon
1961
sand and oil on canvas
21.125 x 29.125
11
David Adickes
Magicians of the Blue Angel
1957
oil on board
28 x 36
12
David Adickes
Moon Trumpet Player (Clarinet in Moonlight)
1959
oil on canvas
14 x 11
13
David Adickes
Mustangs 1970 Bronze _____
14
David Adickes
Napoleon in a Storm
1964
oil on canvas on board
48 x 58.5
15
David Adickes
Oculist Billboard
1953
ink on paper
5.5 x 6.25
16
David Adickes
On Stage 1956 oil on canvas 36 x 22
17
David Adickes
Poet with Scarf
c. 1960s
Bronze
5 x 6 x 6.5
18
David Adickes
Poet
c. 1960s
Bronze
6.5 x 5 x 5
19
David Adickes
Port with Red Leaves
c. 1960
oil on board
18.5 x 16.75
c. 1960s
Medium
Size (inches)
pen and ink on paper
4.5 x 11.25
oil on canvas
10 x 8
David Adickes • Aug 28 - Sept 19, 2015 No.
Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
20
David Adickes
Risque Tout 1953 oil on board 19 x 25
21
David Adickes
Six Persimmons
1958
mixed media on board
10 x 16
22
David Adickes
Small Mustangs
1970
Bronze
9x6x4
23
David Adickes
Still life Against Silver
1962
oil on canvas
12 x 16
24
David Adickes
Still Life for Ann Holmes
1957
pen, ink, and oil on canvas
24 x 16
25
David Adickes
Still Life with Melon
1962
oil on board
25 x 16
26
David Adickes
Three Against Red
1965
oil on board
23 x 17.5
27
David Adickes
Three Friends with Partridge
1958
oil on canvas
42 x 20
28
David Adickes
Three Men on a Beach 1953 casein 48 x 48
29
David Adickes
Three Vahines 1957 oil on canvas 24 x 18
30
David Adickes
Trois Hommes
1958
oil on board
68 x 48
31
David Adickes
Two Strange Ladies Blue Border
c. 1980s
oil on board
12 x 9
32
David Adickes
Untitled (bottle still life)
c. 1960
oil on board
5.25 x 6.25
33
David Adickes
Untitled (Portrait)
c. 1965
oil on board
31.5 x 19
34
David Adickes
Untitled (Tall Men In Striped Tunics)
c. 1960
oil on board
28.5 x 15.5
35
David Adickes
Untitled (three men and cubes)
1955
oil on board
16.25 x 11
36
David Adickes
Untitled (two men with boat)
1954
oil on board
16 x 9
37
David Adickes
Untitled (two men, black wall)
1954
oil on board
8.5 x 6.25
38
David Adickes
White Crest
c. 1960s
oil on board
30 x 40
1. David Adickes, Abacus, 1958, pen and ink on paper, 4.5 x 11.25 inches.
2. David Adickes, Actors, 1956, oil on board, 18 x 14.5 inches.
3. David Adickes, Bait Shop, Galveston, 1951, oil on board, 13 x 15.5 inches.
4. David Adickes, Boats with Yellow Sky, 1953, oil on board, 10.5 x 13.75 inches.
5. David Adickes, Des Hommes 1/10, 1950, lithograph, 11.5 x 14.5 inches.
6. David Adickes, First Tree with Bicycle, c. 1960s, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 inches.
7. David Adickes, Five Vingnettes, c. 1960, watercolor, 17 x 21 inches.
8. David Adickes, Grey Still Life, 1960, oil on canvas, 27.5 x 15.5 inches.
9. David Adickes, Lady in Lavender, 1968, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches.
10. David Adickes, Le Melon, 1961, sand and oil on canvas, 21.125 x 29.125 inches.
11. David Adickes, Magicians of the Blue Angel, 1957, oil on board, 28 x 36 inches.
12. David Adickes, Moon Trumpet Player (Clarinet in Moonlight), 1959, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches.
13. David Adickes, Mustangs, 1970, Bronze, _____ inches.
14. David Adickes, Napoleon in a Storm, 1964, oil on canvas on board, 48 x 58.5 inches.
15. David Adickes, Oculist Billboard, 1953, ink on paper, 5.5 x 6.25 inches.
16. David Adickes, On Stage, 1956, oil on canvas, 36 x 22 inches.
17. David Adickes, Poet with Scarf, c. 1960s, Bronze, 5 x 6 x 6.5 inches.
18. David Adickes, Poet, c. 1960s, Bronze, 6.5 x 5 x 5 inches.
19. David Adickes, Port with Red Leaves, c. 1960, oil on board, 18.5 x 16.75 inches.
20. David Adickes, Risque Tout, 1953, oil on board, 19 x 25 inches.
21. David Adickes, Six Persimmons, 1958, mixed media on board, 10 x 16 inches.
22. David Adickes, Small Mustangs, 1970, Bronze, 9 x 6 x 4 inches.
23. David Adickes, Still life Against Silver, 1962, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches.
24. David Adickes, Still Life for Ann Holmes, 1957, pen, ink, and oil on canvas, 24 x 16 inches.
25. David Adickes, Still Life with Melon, 1962, oil on board, 25 x 16 inches.
26. David Adickes, Three Against Red, 1965, oil on board, 23 x 17.5 inches.
27. David Adickes, Three Friends with Partridge, 1958, oil on canvas, 42 x 20 inches.
28. David Adickes, Three Men on a Beach, 1953, casein, 48 x 48 inches.
29. David Adickes, Three Vahines, 1957, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.
30. David Adickes, Trois Hommes, 1958, oil on board, 68 x 48 inches.
31. David Adickes, Two Strange Ladies Blue Border, 1980s, oil on board, 12 x 9 inches.
32. David Adickes, Untitled (bottle still life), c. 1960, oil on board, 5.25 x 6.25 inches.
33. David Adickes, Untitled (Portrait), c. 1965, oil on board, 31.5 x 19 inches.
34. David Adickes, Untitled (Tall Men In Striped Tunics), c. 1960, oil on board, 28.5 x 15.5 inches.
35. David Adickes, Untitled (three men and cubes), 1955, oil on board, 16.25 x 11 inches.
36. David Adickes, Untitled (two men with boat), 1954, oil on board, 16 x 9 inches.
37. David Adickes, Untitled (two men, black wall), 1954, oil on board, 8.5 x 6.25 inches.
38. David Adickes, White Crest, c. 1960s, oil on board, 30 x 40 inches.
DAVID PRYOR ADICKES (b. 1927) Born in Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes earned his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from Sam Houston State College (now University). The summer after graduation, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute and realized that art was what he really wanted to do. Adickes used his G.I. Bill to study painting in Paris with modern master, Fernand Leger. He returned to Houston and began painting full-time. In 1983, he was commissioned to make his first monumental sculpture, Virtuoso, which now resides at the Lyric Center in downtown Houston. Adickes also created the 76-foot tall figure of Sam Houston that stands on Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville. The Winds of Change, an 8 foot bronze of President George Bush for the Bush Presidential Library at TAMU. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1927 Born in Huntsville, Texas • 1945–46 U. S. Air Force • 1948 BS Physics/Mathematics, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas • 1948 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Kansas • 1948–50 Atelier Fernand Léger, Paris, France • 1954–55 Instructor, University of Texas at Austin at Austin • 1957–58 Around-the-world-tour, one year in Japan with solo shows in Tokyo and Osaka • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards Houston Annual: Purchase Prize 1953, 1955 (March), 1955 (December); Cash Prize 1954; Honorable Mention 1953 • 1953 Purchase Prize, Beach Scene, casein and Honorable Mention, Fishermen on Beach, pastel • 1954 Cash Prize, Three Figures Before a Black Boat, casein • 1955 (March) Purchase Prize, Spanish Interior, oil • 1955 (December) Purchase Prize, In Attendance, casein Texas General/Annual: Recommended for Purchase Prize 1951; Cash Prize 1951, 1954 • 1951 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, Harlequins, gouache (2 figures) • 1954 Cash Prize, Risque-Tout, oil Texas Watercolor Society: Purchase Prize 1952, 1953; Cash Prize 1952; Materials Prize 1953 • 1952 Purchase Prize, Composition, watercolor and Cash Prize, Still Life with Coffee Urn, watercolor • 1953 Purchase Prize, 7 of the Species, watercolor and Materials Prize, View of the Village, watercolor Texas Fine Arts Association: Purchase Prize 1953 (spring), 1953 (fall); First Prize 1956 • 1953 (Spr Festival) Purchase Prize, Harlequins (3 figures) • 1953 (Fall Annual) Purchase Prize, Three by the Sea, casein • 1956 First Prize, Harlequin With Banjo, oil Southwestern Prints and Drawings: Purchase Prize 1956 • 1956-57 Purchase Prize, Two Men on a Beach, lithograph D. D. Feldman: Merit Award 1956 • 1956 Merit Award, The Poets
Selected Exhibitions 1951 Houston Art League Fair, (rented booth with Herb Mears), Shamrock Hilton, Houston, Texas 1951 26th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1951 Paintings and Drawings by David Adickes, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1951 13th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (same entry: cash prize and recommended for purchase prize) 1952 Texas Watercolor Society 3rd Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (2 entries: purchase prize and cash prize) 1952 5th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1953 Texas Watercolor Society 4th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, selection circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas A&M University, College Station; Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas (2 entries: purchase prize and materials prize) 1953 Texas Fine Arts Festival, Coliseum, Austin, Texas (purchase prize) 1953 Texas Fine Arts Association Annual Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas (purchase prize) 1953 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2 entries: purchase prize and honorable mention) 1953–62 Solos and Group, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1954 29th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (cash prize) 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize) 1955 (March) 30th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (purchase prize) 1955 (December) 31st Annual Exhibition of Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (purchase prize) 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955–1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (merit award) 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue) 1956 Annual Spring Show, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (first prize) 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater, Oklahoma (purchase prize)
1957 7th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue) 1957 Solo, Witte Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas 1957 Recent Contemporary Acquisitions—Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1957 David Pryor Adickes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1957 Solo, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin, Texas 1957 32nd Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1958 Solo, Formes Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan 1959 60 Prints by 60 Artists from Local Collections: Post-War Prints 1946–1959, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1959 34th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, SheratonDallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 1959 Solo, Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, New York 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1961 Solo, Galerie de la Vieille Échoppe, St. Paul-de-Vence 1961–62 Solo, Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1962 Solo, Fifth Ave. Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas 1962 24th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1962-1963, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1962 Solo, Stewart-Ricard Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 1963 34th Annual Dallas County Exhibition: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1963– Solos and Group, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1970–Solos and Group, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue) 1973 The Michener Collection: American Paintings from the Twentieth Century, inaugural exhibition, Michener Galleries, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1975 Evolution in Figurative Art, Selections from the Michener Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas
2008 Founders of Houston Art: Thirty Artists Who Led the Way, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Back to the Future: Elements of “Modern” in Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Adickes…Early: Fifty Paintings from the Formative Period, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2009 A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 His World of Color: David Adickes, Nave Museum, Victoria Texas 2011 Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Portrait of Houston: 1900–2011, Alliance Gallery, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2012 A Survey of Texas Modernists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Rhythms of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Summer Encore Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas 2014 An New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935-1965, One Allen Center, Lobby Gallery, Houston, Texas 2014 Lone Star Masters of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) Selected Public Commissions • 1983 Virtuoso, Lyric Center, Houston, Texas • 1994 Sam Houston, Huntsville, Texas Selected Public Collections • Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas • James A. Michener Art Foundation, Doleystown, Pennsylvania • Longview Art Association, Longview, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Witte Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
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H OUSTON’S T EXAS- C ENTERED G ALLERY William Reaves Fine Art, established 2006 in Houston, Texas, is dedicated to the promotion of premier Texas artists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on historically significant artists active in the state during the period of 1900-1975. Now beginning its ninth year, the gallery showcases many of the region’s most accomplished and recognized talents, all of whom have significant connection to the state of Texas and have evidenced the highest standards of quality in their work, training, and professionalism in the field. The gallery exhibits artists working in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography. In addition to its general focus on Early Texas Art, the gallery places special emphasis on the rediscovery and presentation of early and mid-century works by Houston and South Texas artists. William Reaves Fine Art is the foremost provider of Texas Modern Art, which includes mid-century masters and pioneering expressionists working in the state. In order to promote interest and broaden knowledge of earlier Texas art, the gallery supports related gallery talks, community events, scholarly research, and publication related to its subject, artist, and period. William Reaves Fine Art also represents a dynamic group of contemporary artists, known as the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, actively showing their works in annual gallery exhibitions as well as traveling exhibitions throughout the state. Most recently, The Houston Press voted William Reaves Fine Art Houston’s Best Art Gallery for 2013. Additionally, William Reaves Fine Art is a comprehensive gallery offering fine art appraisals, consultation, brokerage, and sales services. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm and other times by appointment. Gallery Contact: Sarah Foltz, Director sarah@reavesart.com
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