Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston

BAYOU CITY CHIC PROGRESSIVE STREAMS OF MODERN ART IN HOUSTON

BAYOU CITY CHIC PROGRESSIVE STREAMS OF MODERN ART IN HOUSTON

Acknowledgements by Joseph B. Schenk Introduction by Deborah Fullerton Dunn Essay by William Reaves and Sarah Foltz

Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas JANUARY 31-APRIL 26, 2015

Front Cover: Richard Stout, Passion, 1957, oil on canvas. Collection of David Ellis.

Above: Forrest Bess, Untitled 11A, 1958, oil on canvas. Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Purchase funded by Duke Energy.

Curated by Deborah Fullerton Dunn, William Reaves and Sarah Foltz

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lenders

Donors

David Adickes Jason Aigner Mary Alice Aigner H.J. Bott & Anya Tish Gallery David Cargill Joe Carte Miriam Edelman David Ellis Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Pamela Nelson Harte Perry House & D.M. Allison Art Gallery Jonie & J.R. Hurd Patricia Covo Johnson Bobbie & John L. Nau George & Beverly Palmer Charles M. Peveto Linda & William Reaves William Reaves Fine Art Steven Sessions David Spradling Lias J. “Jeff ” Steen Richard Stout Robert Summers Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer Gary Tucker & Bob Black Arthur Turner Lauri & Robert Wray

Gayden Family Foundation AMST Foundation/Chairman’s Circle Donors Julie Buckley Louise Chapman Gloria & Robert Furgason Karen & Harold Kane Maureen Miller Patty & Hank Nuss Ted Oakley Kimberly & Steven Stockseth Jennifer & Will Vogt Texas Donors Jason Aigner Mary Alice Aigner Minnette Boesel Barbara Eaves Jo Frances Greenlaw J.R. Hurd Elizabeth Lipscomb & Brian Hill Larry Martin Patricia & Robert Pando George & Beverly Palmer David Spradling & Lisa Harvell Robert Summers Linda & William Reaves, Jr. Randolph Tibbits & Richard Bebermeyer, DDS CASETA (Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art) TACO (Texas Art Collectors Organization) HETAG (Houston Earlier Texas Art Group)

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An exhibition like Bayou City Chic is a significant undertaking with many moving parts and participants. I want to take this opportunity to thank many of those who made it all possible. First and foremost, thanks goes to the lenders and William Reaves Fine Art for generously allowing these works to be included in this exceptional exhibition. Thanks goes to Bill and Linda Reaves of William Reaves Fine Art in Houston who had the vision to mount the first rendition of this exhibition in 2014 and allow us to show this second version. Thanks also goes to Sarah Foltz, their Gallery Director.

We are especially indebted to Bill Gayden and the William Gayden Family Foundation for the very generous grant that is supporting this exhibition catalogue. The documentation of this kind of exhibition is critical to the scholarship and the legacy of the artists involved. Similarly, when acknowledging the documentation of these artists, we must also express appreciation to CASETA (Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art) for its work and Bill Gayden for his assistance to this organization.

The Art Museum of South Texas has also benefited from the financial commitments of its Foundation and Chairman’s Circle members who support specific exhibitions. Those who provided support for Bayou City Chic include: Ms. Julie Buckley, Mrs. Louise Chapman, Dr. & Mrs. Robert Furgason, Mr. & Mrs. Harold Kane, Mrs. Maureen Miller, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Nuss, Mr. Ted Oakley, Mr. & Mrs. Steven Stockseth, and Mr. & Mrs. William Vogt. We have also received contributions from Jason Aigner, Mary Alice Aigner, Minette Boesel, Barbara Eaves, Jo Frances Greenlaw, J.R. Hurd, Elizabeth Lipscomb & Brian Hill, Larry Martin, George & Beverly Palmer, David Spradling & Lisa Harvell, Robert Summers, Linda & William Reaves, Jr., Randolph Tibbits & Richard Bebermeyer, DDS, CASETA (Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art), TACO (Texas Art Collectors Organization), and HETAG (Houston Earlier Texas Art Group). The Board of Trustees of the Art Museum and Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi have added their ongoing commitment to this exhibition through budgetary support.

I would be remiss if I did not also acknowledge the contributions of our staff, especially Deborah Fullerton Dunn, our Curator of Exhibitions, who led this effort. Every staff member worked to make this exhibition a success and I appreciate their efforts.

On behalf of the Museum, I offer a hearty thanks to all those who have made contributions great and small to make Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston possible.

Joseph B. Schenk, Director Art Museum of South Texas, 2015

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INTRODUCTION “These artists moved Houston arts into the realm of complete abstraction, covering an expressionist gamut which ranged from highly-charged, landscape-inspired canvases, to more sensual renderings attentive to light and atmosphere, to frenetic figuratively-inspired expressions.”

-William Reaves, William Reaves Fine Art, 2014

Bayou City Chic was originally presented by William Reaves Fine Art in Houston in the early part of 2014. The art in the exhibition was created by artists who called Houston home at mid-century and whose creative output is evidenced by the works in the exhibition. In 1940, the city of Houston’s population was 384,000; by 1980, it was over 2 million. Houston’s development as a major American city provided the backdrop for these artists’ significant output. It was a time of great optimism, energy and progress which met the needs of artists, cultural centers and the public. The art produced in Houston in this time period exemplifies what social vitality can foster. The comradery and mutual appreciation for the art relationships that existed in this culturally progressive city continue to be tangible today. The support of the collecting base and art that represents this dynamic period constitute this exhibition.

Bayou City Chic offers insight into the mood and creative output of the time between 1940 and 1980. Many of the artists included are represented in the Art Museum of South Texas’ permanent collection, and Bayou City Chic offers a wider field to examine their contributions to the development of modernism in Texas. Artists who are in the exhibition and are also included in the Museum’s permanent collection include John Biggers (1924-2001), Ibsen Espada (b. 1952), Dorothy Hood (1918-2000), Lucas Johnson (1940-2002), Earl Staley (b. 1938), Trudy Sween (b.

1929), Arthur Turner (b. 1940), and Dick Wray (1933-2011). As we anticipate the upcoming retrospective of Dorothy Hood, The Color of Being/El Color del Ser, in the fall of 2016, this exhibition takes a closer look at artists who worked during the same years in abstraction in Houston, and reflects a palpable discourse that defines the energy and legacy of the time. Bayou City Chic showcases these artists who were, and are, contemporaries today. We benefit by seeing this dynamism of abstraction by multiple artists who worked during this “watershed” time period.

The Art Museum of South Texas is one part of the larger story and dialogue of what has occurred between the development of the art and the vetting of the work through its creation, exhibition and acquisition. It is in this type of exhibition that we sometimes see what has been there all along. The evolution of the art and the artist must exist so that the discipline is honored and so we can all catch on. The time in which it takes for an artist, their work and the art world to embrace the work is variable. The work of these artists in this grouping has led us to many points and, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, perhaps we will find what underlies the field beyond abstraction.

What this work calls into view lays open a field of development in the state and region which is still being built upon today.

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Above: Dorothy Hood, Lausanne, ca. 1970, oil on canvas. Collection of Jason Aigner.

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Bayou City Chic

Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston William Reaves and Sarah Foltz, William Reaves Fine Art From 1940 to 1980, Houston became the titular capital of “modern art” in Texas, attracting a loose-knit colony of important painters nurtured in a burgeoning community of avant-garde galleries, collectors, museums and university art departments.1 In retrospect, it is evident that this forty-year span represented one of the most vital and productive periods of the city’s cultural evolution, a “coming of age” of the Houston art scene which paralleled the region’s dramatic rise in population, economic influence and social vitality. The current exhibition, Bayou City Chic, examines this watershed era, presenting an extraordinary survey of paintings by artists associated with the city’s remarkable mid-century journey.2 With substantive works by many of Houston’s most esteemed modernists, Bayou City Chic captures the energy and innovation of an important period, and warrants the attention of collectors and aficionados of Texas modernism.

As was explored in Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston’s First Modern Artist, a 2013 exhibition at the Houston Public Library focusing on Emma Richardson Cherry (1859-1954) and her protégés, much of city’s mid-century art vitality can be traced to the efforts of an enlightened older guard of artists and arts leaders who set the stage for growth and innovation in the decades before.3 Led by progressive artists such as Cherry, Ruth Pershing Uhler (1895-1967), and Ola McNeill Davidson (1884-1976), and bolstered by the newly formed Museum of Fine Arts and its venerable director, James Chillman (who served from 1924 until 1954, then returned as interim director from 1959-61), Houston forged a small, yet active arts community in the first-half of the twentieth century.4 Despite the intervening challenges of two world wars and a great depression, the fledgling arts scene took root within the city, flowered in the decades of the 20s and 30s, and prospered steadily thereafter, pausing only for a brief respite during the war-years. Ahead of many of their contemporaries in the late 1930s and 40s, Frank Dolejska (1921-1989) and Robert Preusser (1919-1992) are credited as the chronological outliers for embracing a fully abstract brand of modern art in Texas. Both grew up in Houston during this time, Dolejska and Preusser benefitted from formidable art teachers, the state’s first art museum, and a developing art community with a cosmopolitan outlook.5 In 1938, at the age of nineteen, Preusser wrote, “To understand and appreciate modern art one must seek more than literal facts and imitations of nature. The visual experience that is intended by the artist is different from the telling of a story with words or looking at the surface appearance of nature. Modern Art must be considered a visual language and not confused with the language of spoken or written words. This is the first step toward understanding.”6 Preusser’s Receding Transit from 1940 represents a remarkably early example of his nonobjective abstraction done in Texas, implementing his theories into practice in the melding of geometric with Surrealist biomorphic forms (Fig. 1).

Figure 1. Robert Preusser, Receding Transit, 1940, oil on masonite. Collection of George & Beverly Palmer.

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With the Great War behind and the Depression abated, Houston sat poised to renew its advance on the world of art, pitched forward in the ensuing quarter-century through a “perfect storm” of new artists, collectors, galleries and art institutions.7 The post-war economic boom and accompanying social transitions gave renewed energy to the city’s art fortunes in these years, yet it was the quality of Houston’s artists and the significance of their output

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that gave it substance and definition. Over the forty years considered here, the Bayou City became home to a growing, loosely connected “colony” of artists (perhaps more aptly described as a “collection” of artists) - a diverse blend of homegrown talent and accomplished émigrés.

While mostly collegial and socially active with one another, Houston’s mid-century artists still worked with an independent and individualistic orientation. As demonstrated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Fresh Paint: The Houston School, curated by Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil in 1985, Houston artists of the time proved to be less a definable “school” of painters, with works bound by common aesthetic attributes, and more a “confederation” of artists pursuing their own creative visions.8 However, the best of these Houston-based artists persevered to build significant paths through the regional art world of the 50s, 60s and beyond by relying on the virtues of their personal visions and artistic prowess. Thus, their works commanded sound reviews and attention and their collective successes helped the city to eventually achieve a state of critical mass within the art world. Houston artists of the period provided the collective strength and synergy to push the Bayou City beyond mere provincial art interests and into the realm of national and even international acclaim. Over the forty years addressed in this exhibition, Houston rode the creative coattails of its many noteworthy resident artists to become America’s “third coast,” a major arts destination on the national front.

Given the penchant of these local painters for experimentation with new media and the divergent styles (as is evident by the works in the Bayou City Chic exhibition), the particular forms of modern art that blossomed in the Bayou City during these years were never static. Pushed somewhat in cadence with the general artistic advancements of the larger American scene, Houston’s art of this period morphed through a series of stylistic progressions.9 The hallmarks of Houston painting came to be its strength and diversity, with viewers encountering works as bold and varied as the artists producing them. It bestowed a rich and interesting mix of modernist materials in the hearts and minds of the Bayou City.

Figure 2. Herb Mears, Still Life, ca. 1961, oil on canvas. Collection of Gary Tucker & Bob Black.

Figure 3. Bill Condon, Houston Ship Channel, 1958, oil on board. Collection of Charles M. Peveto, Austin, Texas.

First Wave of Houston Modernists The city garnered initial notoriety as a regional center for the avant-garde based upon the success of its first wave of modernists in the late 40s and early 50s. Led by the likes David Adickes (b. 1927), Lowell Collins (1924-2003), William (Bill) Condon (1923-1998), Frank Freed (1906-1975), Henri Gadbois (b. 1930), Herbert (Herb) Mears (1923-1999), Chester Snowden (1900-1984), Stella Sullivan (b. 1924) and others, these artists brought Houstonians a brand of cubist-inspired abstraction, richly imbued with color and texture. Popular and cutting edge for its time, the work found favor with many post-war consumers. These artists continued to paint primarily an abstracted version of representational subject matter, or their own version of “Texas Cubism,” which is found in various pockets of modernist artists across the state during this time, often influenced by experiences and encounters with European and earlier American Modernism and Cubism.10 Rooted in the figurative, both Adickes and Mears lived in France (and resided in Amedeo Modigliani’s Parisian studio) where they credit much of their life-long stylistic attributes as being shaped by the School of Paris. In Adickes’ paintings, the artist frequently includes elongated whimsical figures, vibrant colors, and a sense of spatial distortion in his compositions from this period.11 Similarly, Mears also used a Parisian-style figuration, yet his body of work possesses a wider range of subjects, varying methods for stylization and darker palettes, such as with his Still Life from circa 1960 (Fig. 2). At times, Gadbois worked in a soft-edged figural style akin with Adickes and Mears with Fauvist and School of Paris underlying influences. Yet his oeuvre is noteworthy for displaying versatility and skill in a variety of styles. Regardless of subject matter, all of Gadbois’ compositions are rooted in an architectural solidity and color balance, as seen in Trees in Hermann Park, 1954 (Fig. 6).

In contrast, Condon, whose primary interest was in architecture, focused the majority of his work during this time on the urban landscape in the burgeoning city, frequently painting iconic Houston locales such as Downtown’s Main Street and the Houston Ship Channel, 1958 (Fig. 3). The growth and development of the city were captured first hand in a modernist approach, contributing further to the idea of modern Houston as becoming a major economic center for the region as it lost its former romantic identity as the Magnolia City.12

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Abstract Expressionism in the Bayou City The late 1950s ushered in expressionist modes, introduced to the town by artists such as James (Jack) Boynton (1928-2010), Richard Stout (b. 1934), Dick Wray (1933-2011), as well as their female counter-parts, Dorothy Hood (1918-2000) and Leila McConnell (b. 1927). Other notables, such as Earl Staley (b. 1938), Charles Schorre (19251996), and Otis Huband (b. 1933) followed suit in the later 1960s. These artists moved Houston arts into the realm of complete abstraction, covering an expressionist gamut which ranged from highly-charged, landscape-inspired canvases, to more sensual renderings attentive to light and atmosphere, to frenetic figuratively-inspired expressions. Just as can be found in works by other modernist artists across Texas, biomorphic and geometric forms frequently emerge from the canvases of the 1950s and early 1960s.13 Modernist art in Texas retained an essential connection to the landscape, whether real or imagined. Within these canvases, Stout and Wray use differing degrees of gestural abstraction which grants an expressive potential contained within the frame. In Stout’s West Wind, 1957 and Wray’s One of Five is a Tree, 1960, both appear to be a melding of certain representational elements of a landscape with pure abstraction (Figs. 4-5). Throughout their careers, Stout continued (and continues today) to root his works in a landscape, often his Texas surroundings, while Wray tended towards gestural abstraction with little left of the referential.

Figure 4. Richard Stout, West WInd, 1957, acrylic on canvas. Collection of Jason & Mary Alice Aigner.

Figure 5. Dick Wray, One of Five is a Tree, 1960, oil on canvas. The Estate of Dick Wray.

In Hood’s grand-colored canvases, she created works that have often been described as “abstract surrealism” or “lyrical abstraction.”14 Her subjects tend to reflect an imagined space in the cosmos, and compounding ideas of time, space, and memory in to her meticulously created compositions using line and color. It is interesting to note that these works were created just as Houston was being dubbed with the new name of Space City, with NASA’s headquarters nearby bringing more attention to cutting-edge science and technological advances.

The success and creative efforts of these aforementioned artists set the stage for subsequent waves of expressionist talent including artists such as H.J. Bott (b. 1933), Perry House (b. 1943) and Ibsen Espada (b. 1952) who continued this tradition of strong abstractions in the late 70s, often incorporating iconographic elements into their own expressionist modes. Continuing as a contemporary artist today, Espada, who was mentored early on by both Wray and Hood, utilizes a mode of gestural abstraction with his layering of media, line, and color creating his own unique compositions, such as with his painting Modern Quilt III, 2000 (Fig. 7).

Likewise, in the 1970s, artists such as Lucas Johnson (1940-2002) and Robert Morris (b. 1930) introduced a strain of surrealism into the Houston scene, their works integrating both abstract and representational elements to create intriguing, messianic narratives. Lucas Johnson’s works stand out for his intricate draftsmanship on the figurative elements in his works that he often combines with a looser, painterly approach to large colorful areas within the composition.

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5. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 1, 70.

This exhibition, Bayou City Chic, is a celebration of these artists and their times, a tribute to local genius, and their sustained artistic accomplishment. By offering a visual treatise of the natural progressions of Houston art at a time that may now be heralded as the high-water point of a century past, Bayou City Chic encourages art patrons to consider these distinguished Houston artists as valued additions to important assemblages of regional and American modernism. This heritage and legacy of the artists and the arts community in Houston laid the foundation for its grand international art scene today. As James Chillman, Jr., the first director of the Museum of Fine Arts, once commented, “Nature made Houston rich. Time will make her powerful. Only the Arts can make her great.”15

6. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 1.

7. Kalil, “Dynamic Pioneers,” 11-46. Reynolds, Houston Reflections, xi-xvii.

8. Rose and Kalil, Fresh Paint.

9. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas.

10. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas.

11. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 184-186.

12. Greene, Texas, 18. Greene writes, “Known as the “Magnolia City” of the South until the 1930s, postwar Houston shook off its romantic countenance to become America’s petroleum capital, the fastest-growing city in the nation, and a leading example of a new sprawling urbanism.”

13. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 6.

14. Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, 188-191.

15. Greene, Texas, 15.

Figure 6. Henri Gadbois, Trees in Hermann Park, 1954, oil on canvas.

Collection of Linda & William Reaves.

NOTES 1. Sarah C. Reynolds, Houston Reflections: Art in the City, 1950s, 60s, and 70s (Houston: Rice University Press, 2008). Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil, Fresh Paint: The Houston School (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1985). Susie Kalil, “Dynamic Pioneers: A Brief History of Painting in Houston, 1900 to Present,” in Fresh Paint: The Houston School, by Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1985), 11-46. Katie Robinson Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).

2. Bayou City Chic exhibition catalogue (Houston: William Reaves Fine Art, February 2014).

3. Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston’s First Modern Artist. Houston: Houston Public Library, 2013. Cite Cherry. This exhibition was curated by Danielle Burns and Randy Tibbits with contributions by Lorraine Stuart, Archivist of the Museum of Fine Arts, and was supported by the Houston Public Library, the City of Houston, and the Houston Public Library Foundation.

4. James Chillman, Jr., “Houston,” in Texas Painting & Sculpture: 20th Century (Dallas: Broadnax Printing Company, 1971), 6. Alison de Lima Greene, Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000). MFAH Publication, “Directors of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.” Kalil, “Dynamic Pioneers,” 11-46. Reynolds, Houston Reflections, xi.

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Figure 7. Ibsen Espada, Modern Quilt III, 2000, tempera, ink, and oil on canvas. Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art.

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EXHIBITION CHECKLIST 1. David Adickes Three Men by the Sea, 1953 casein on board 48x48 inches Courtesy of The Adickes Foundation, Huntsville, Texas

11. Mildred Dixon Piazza San Marco, 1954 oil on board 25x28 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

2. Gertrude Barnstone Untitled Abstract, ca. 1950 oil on board 24x19.5 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

12. Frank Dolejska Blue Whale, 1938 oil on board 23x29 inches Private Collection, San Antonio, Texas

3. Forrest Bess Untitled 11A, 1958 oil on canvas 17.75x24 inches Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Purchase funded by Duke Energy

13. Don Edelman MFA Student's Basement Apartment, Champaign-Urbana, 1951 oil on board 48x34 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art

4. John Biggers The Sleepers (Three Figures), 1951 pen and ink 20x30 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau 5. H.J. Bott "Net" Ball Flak, from the Gridlock Series, 1984-85 mixed media on canvas 63x49 inches Courtesy of H.J. Bott & Anya Tish Gallery 6. Jack Boynton Ambiance, 1957 oil on canvas 48x34 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau 7. Jack Boynton Untitled, 1956 oil on canvas 48x60 inches The Summers Collection 8. Lamar Briggs Yellow Sky, ca. 1965 oil on canvas 50x40 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art 9. Lowell Collins Baptism, ca. 1951 encaustic on board 18x29 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves 10. Bill Condon Houston Ship Channel, 1958 oil on board 24x80 inches Collection of Charles M. Peveto, Austin, Texas

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14. Ibsen Espada Modern Quilt III, 2000 tempera, ink, and oil on canvas 60x48 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art 15. Frank Freed Toledo Revisited, ca. 1970 oil on canvas 23x27 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas 16. Henri Gadbois Trees in Hermann Park, 1954 oil on canvas 50x34 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves 17. Dorothy Hood Lausanne, ca. 1970 oil on canvas 70x60 inches Collection of Jason Aigner 18. Perry House No Title, 1983 acrylic on canvas 60x48 inches Courtesy of Perry House & D.M. Allison Art Gallery 19. Otis Huband Troubadour, 1989 mixed media collage on canvas 65x42 inches Collection of David Ellis 20. Harvey Johnson When the Cock Crows Thrice, 1979 conte on paper 19.5x40 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau

21. Lucas Johnson Black Mesa, 1985 acrylic and watercolor on panel 30x40 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

31. Charles Schorre Reflected Sunset Sounds, 1981 acrylic on canvas 60x60 inches Collection of Steven Sessions

22. Paul Maxwell Red Field, 1956 oil on board 32x60 inches The Harvell-Spradling Collection

32. Chester Snowden The White Horse, 1951 oil on canvas 19x26 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

23. Leila McConnell Refinery at Night, 1958 oil on board 36x48 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

33. Earl Staley Noche en Oaxaca, 1977 acrylic and mixed media on canvas 72x156 inches Collection of Joe Carte

24. Herb Mears Still Life, ca. 1961 oil on canvas 28x75 inches Collection of Gary Tucker & Bob Black

34. Richard Stout Passion, 1957 oil on canvas 71x74 inches Collection of David Ellis

25. Robert Morris Wilhelm at the Front, 1959 mixed media on paper 40x30 inches Collection of David Cargill

35. Richard Stout West Wind, 1957 acrylic on canvas 60x81 inches Collection of Jason Aigner & Mary Alice Aigner

26. Kermit Oliver Study for Empty Shed (Feed Pail), ca. 1965 mixed media on paper 23x17 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

36. Stella Sullivan Symbols, 1953 oil on canvas 24x28 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

27. Robert Preusser Ecclesia, 1952 oil on board 40x17 inches Collection of Charles M. Peveto, Austin, Texas

37. Trudy Sween A is for Adam, 1966 oil on canvas 17.x25.5 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

28. Robert Preusser Receding Transit, 1940 oil on masonite 32x20 inches Collection of George & Beverly Palmer

38. Arthur Turner Amsterdam Series #1, 1967 acrylic on canvas 48x48 inches Collection of (the artist) Arthur Turner

29. E.M. “Buck” Schiwetz Fishing Trailers in Indianola, 1964 mixed media on paper 15x24 inches Collection of Pamela Nelson Harte

39. Dick Wray Green Grass Man, 1961 oil on canvas 51.75x58.5 inches The Summers Collection

30. E.M. "Buck" Schiwetz The Watering Station, 1960 oil on canvas 24.25x30 inches Collection of Lias J. “Jeff ” Steen

40. Dick Wray One of Five is a Tree, 1960 oil on canvas 46.75x59 inches The Estate of Dick Wray

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Color Plates

1. David Adickes Three Men by the Sea, 1953 casein on board 48x48 inches Courtesy of The Adickes Foundation, Huntsville, Texas

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2. Gertrude Barnstone Untitled abstract, ca. 1950 oil on board 24x19.5 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

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3. Forrest Bess Untitled 11A, 1958 oil on canvas 17.75x24 inches Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Purchase funded by Duke Energy

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4. John Biggers The Sleepers (Three Figures), 1951 pen and ink 20x30 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau

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5. H.J. Bott 'Net' Ball Flak, from the Gridlock Series, 1984-85 mixed media on canvas 63x49 inches Courtesy of H.J. Bott & Anya Tish Gallery

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6. Jack Boynton Ambience, 1957 oil on canvas 48x34 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau

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7. Jack Boynton Untitled, 1956 oil on canvas 48x60 inches The Summers Collection

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9. Lowell Collins Baptism, ca. 1951 encaustic on board 18x29 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

8. Lamar Briggs Yellow Sky, ca. 1965 oil on canvas 50x40 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art 24

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10. Bill Condon Houston Ship Channel, 1958 oil on board 24x80 inches Collection of Charles M. Peveto, Austin, Texas

11. Mildred Dixon Piazza San Marco, 1954 oil on board 25x18 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

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12. Frank Dolejska Blue Whale, 1938 oil on board 23x29 inches Private Collection, San Antonio, Texas

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13. Don Edelman MFA Student's Basement Apartment, Champaign-Urbana, 1951 oil on canvas 48x34 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art

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14. Ibsen Espada Modern Quilt II, 2000 tempera, ink and oil on canvas 60x48 inches Courtesy of William Reaves Fine Art

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15. Frank Freed Toledo Revisited, ca. 1970 oil on canvas 23x27 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

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16. Henri Gadbois Trees in Hermann Park, 1954 oil on canvas 50x34 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

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17. Dorothy Hood Lausanne, ca. 1970 oil on canvas 70x60 inches Collection of Jason Aigner

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18. Perry House No Title, 1983 acrylic on canvas 60x48 inches Courtesy of Perry House & D.M. Allison Art Gallery

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19. Otis Huband Troubadour, 1989 mixed media collage on canvas 65x42 inches Collection of David Ellis

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20. Harvey Johnson When the Cock Crows Thrice, 1979 conte on paper 19.5x40 inches Collection of Bobbie & John L. Nau

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21. Lucas Johnson Black Mesa, 1985 acrylic and watercolor on panel 30x40 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

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22. Paul Maxwell Red Field, 1956 oil on board 32x60 inches The Harvell-Spradling Collection

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23. Leila McConnell Refinery at Night, 1958 oil on board 36x48 inches Collection of Randy Tibbits & Rick Bebermeyer

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24. Herb Mears Still Life, ca. 1961 oil on canvas 28x75 inches Collection of Gary Tucker & Bob Black

25. Robert Morris Wilhelm at the Front, 1959 mixed media on paper 40x30 inches Collection of David Cargill

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27. Robert Preusser Ecclesia, 1952 oil on board 40x17 inches Collection of Charles M. Peveto, Austin, Texas

28. Robert Preusser Receding Transit, 1940 oil on masonite 32x20 inches Collection of George & Beverly Palmer

26. Kermit Oliver Study for Empty Shed (Feed Pail), ca. 1965 mixed media on paper 23x17 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

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29. E.M. “Buck” Schiwetz Fishing Trailers in Indianola, 1964 mixed media on paper 15x24 inches Collection of Pamela Nelson Harte

31. Charles Schorre Reflected Sunset Sounds, 1981 acrylic on canvas 60x60 inches Collection of Steven Sessions

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30. E.M. “Buck” Schiwetz The Watering Station, 1960 oil on canvas 24.25x30 inches Collection of Lias J. “Jeff ” Steen

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32. Chester Snowden The White Horse, 1951 oil on canvas 19x26 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

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33. Earl Staley Noche en Oaxaca, 1977 acrylic and mixed media on canvas 72x156 inches Collection of Joe Carte

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34. Richard Stout Passion, 1957 oil on canvas 71x74 inches Collection of David Ellis

35. Richard Stout West Wind, 1957 acrylic on canvas 60x81 inches Collection of Jason & Mary Alice Aigner

36. Stella Sullivan Symbols, 1953 oil on canvas 24x28 inches Private Collection, Houston, Texas

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37. Trudy Sween A is for Adam, 1966 oil on canvas 17x25.5 inches Collection of Linda & William Reaves

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38. Arthur Turner Amsterdam Series #1, 1967 acrylic on canvas 48x48 inches Collection of (the artist) Arthur Turner

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39. Dick Wray Green Grass Man, 1961 oil on canvas 51.75x58.5 inches The Summers Collection

Artist Biographical Information

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DAVID ADICKES (b. 1927) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1927, Born in Huntsville, Texas • 1948, Attends Sam Houston State College, Huntsville, degree in Physics • 1948-50, Lives in Paris, studies painting at the Atelier Fernand Léger • 1951-53, Moves to Houston, has five one-man shows and exhibits in group exhibitions • 1953, Returns to Europe for 18 months • 1954-55, Two one-man shows in Houston, moves to Austin to teach at University of Texas • 1956, Travels to Tahiti for the summer • 1957-58, Around the world-tour, one year in Japan and one-man shows in Tokyo and Osaka • Currently resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1951 (solo), 1951-1956, 1959, 1963, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1953, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas • 1957, Witte Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas • 1957, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin, Texas • 1958, Formes Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan • 1959, Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, New York • 1961, 62, Haydon Calhoun Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1961, Galerie de la Vieille Échoppe, St. Paul-de-Vence • 1962, Fifth Ave. Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas • 1962, Stewart-Ricard Gallery, San Antonio, Texas Selected Public Collections • Blanton Museum of Art, The 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

GERTRUDE BARNSTONE (b. 1925)

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1925, Born in Houston, Texas • 1932, Studies at the Museum School of Art, Houston • Graduates from Rice Institute, Houston • 1980s, Begins making “art furniture” • Co-founder of the Artists’ Rescue Mission

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• 1984, Visiting Artist at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville Selected Exhibitions • 1936, 1940, 1947, 1950-54, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition • 1952, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas • 1959, Brooklyn Museum, New York • 1974, Texas Women Artists, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin • 1979, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1984-85, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York • 1987, Galveston Art League Selected Public Collections • Astrodome County Park, Houston, Texas • Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

FORREST BESS (1911-1977)

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1911, Born Bay City, Texas • 1924, Takes first art lessons • 1929-30, Studies at Texas A&M University • 1931-32, Studies at University of Texas at Austin • 1934, Opensstudio in Bay City • 1940s, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers • 1949-50, First major exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery • 1973, Receives grant from Mark Rothko Foundation • 1977, Died in Bay City, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1938, 1940, 1967, Witte Museum in San Antonio • 1938, 1940, Corcoran Gallery • 1941 (solo), 1951 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1946, 1951 (solo), Dallas Museum of Art • 1949-50, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1967 (solos), Betty Parsons Gallery, New York • 1951, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City • 1958, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Houston • 1963, New Arts Gallery, Houston • 1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • 1988 (solo), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago • 2013 (solo), Menil Collection, Houston Selected Public Collections • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts • Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

JOHN BIGGERS (1924-2001) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1924, Born Gastonia, North Carolina • 1941, Enrolls at Hampton Institute in Virginia, mentored by émigré art educator Viktor Lowenfeld • 1943, Lowenfeld includes Biggers’s mural Dying Soldier in Young Negro Art exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York • 1943-1945, Serves two years in the Navy • 1948, Earns B.S. and M.S. degrees in art education from Pennsylvania State University • 1949, Joins faculty at Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University) in Houston, Texas. Establishes and chairs art department.

• 1954, Earns Doctorate from Pennsylvania State University • 1957, Travels to Africa with wife, Hazel, on a UNESCO grant to study Western African cultural traditions; afterward his works incorporate scenes of African life and design motifs.

• 1962, Publishes award-winning illustrated book Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa • 1983, Retires from Texas State University • 1990, Awarded honorary Doctorate of Letters from Hampton University • 2001, Dies Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1950-1953, 1955, Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1962, 1968 (solos), Houston Museum, Houston, Texas • 1978 (solo), African-American Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas • 1983 (solo), California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, Los Angeles, California • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1990 (solo), Hampton University Museum • 1995, The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room retrospective, traveling exhibition organized by the Houston and Hampton museums, Boston, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California • Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California • Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

H.J. BOTT (b. 1933) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1933, Born in Gill, Colorado • 1951-62, attends San Antonio College, Trinity University, University of Southern California, Kansas State College, New York University, University of Maryland, University of Heidelberg, Colombia University, Texas A&M University Selected Exhibitions • 1979, Cubic Series, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1985, DoVZ ROBOTTs, Contemporary Arts Center, • 1986, And Bott, Of Course!, Nimbus Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1987, Bott Burds, Still Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1991, Waves, Tobinite™ wire mesh sculpture, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland • 1997, Dance-of-Values: Toyz’n Us, New Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2000, Pascal Robinson Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2006, Raising the Line, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2010, HJ Bott Paradigms in Paint and Wire, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2012, Juxtaposition of 1970s with 2012 Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Gallery 4, San Antonio, Texas Selected Public Collections • Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas • Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California • Cape Code Art Center, Hyannis, Massachusetts • Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York • Denver Art Museum, Living Arts Center, Denver, Colorado • Kunsthalle Der Garten¸ Dusseldorf, Germany • Long Island Art Center, North Shore, New York • Longview Museum and Art Center, Longview, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas • National Museum of Sport, New York and Bridgeport, Connecticut • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana • Newport Art Association, Newport, Rhode Island • Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas • San Antonio Museum Association, San Antonio, Texas • Winchester-Western Museum, New Haven, Connecticut • Wind River Valley Museum, Dubois, Wyoming

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JAMES “JACK” BOYNTON (1928-2010) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1928, Born Fort Worth, Texas • 1949, BFA, Texas Christian University • 1955, MFA, Texas Christian University • 1955-57, University of Houston, Instructor • 1960-62, San Francisco Art Institute, Instructor • 1967-69, Tamarind Lithograph Workshop, Los Angeles, Artist Fellowship • 1969-85, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Professor • 2010, Dies in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1950-1951, Annual Exhibiiton of Texas Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1952, Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Co., New York • 1954, Younger American Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York • 1955, 1957-1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas • 1957, Young America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • 1957-58, World’s Fair, Brussels (one of seventeen U.S. artists) • 1959, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art • 1962, Recent Painting: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York • 1976-86 (solo), Betty Moody Gallery, Houston • 1980 , Jack Boynton Retro / Spectrum, Amarillo Art Center, traveling exhibition to Tyler Museum of Art, Art Center of Waco, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and Beaumont Art Museum • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2007, Texas Modern, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University Selected Public Collections • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas • Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • Museum of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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LAMAR BRIGGS (b. 1935) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1935, Born in Lafayette, Louisiana • 1953, University of Southwestern Louisiana • 1958, University of Houston • 1959, Art Center of Los Angeles • 1960, Colorado Institute of Art • 1966, Independent Art Education Study, Antibes, France • 1962-Present, Who’s Who in American Art Selected Exhibitions • 1961, The Denver Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado • 1962, Annual Houston Artist Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1964, Beaumont Annual, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • 1965 (solo), Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1966, 1968 (solos), Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1967, Ninth Annual Invitational Exhibit, Longview, Texas • 1971(solo), United States Consulate, Guadalajara, Mexico • 1972(solo), Agra Gallery, East Hampton, Long Island, New York • 1973, Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, Texas • 1975, Opening Exhibition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona • 1976 (solo), Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1977, Ten from Houston, The Art Center, Waco, Texas • 1978, (solo), Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1981, Large Scale Contemporary Paintings, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina • 1988 (solo), Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, England •1989, Works on Paper, Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, California • 1991, (solo), Art Collectors Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma • 1995(solo), Peter Fischinger Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany • 2007, Lamar Briggs, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2012, Group Exhibition, The Holiday Show, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio • 2013, 20 Year Celebration, Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington, D.C. Selected Public Collections • Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado • Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina • Rice University, Houston, Texas • Rutgers University Archives, Rutgers University, New Jersey

LOWELL COLLINS (1924-2003) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1924, Born in San Antonio, Texas • B.F.A and M.L, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • Studies at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado • 1940’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Studies at the Academie Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France • Earns Texas Swedish Cultural Foundation Scholarship to study ceramics throughout Sweden • Tours and studies major archeological sites in Meso-America and Central America; leads tours for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Houston Museum of Natural Science • Illustrates books entitled: Houston, Land of the Big Rich and Houston, The Feast Years by George Fuerman; The Galveston Era and The Unhappy Medium by Earl Fornell • Listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in American South, and Southwest • Former instructor of art and architecture, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • Former Dean, The Museum school of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Former instructor of Pre-Columbian Art, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas • Former director, Lowell Collins School of Art; instructor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Fine Arts • Former president, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas • Former honorary curator of Ethnic Art, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions •1946-1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1947-1948, Texas General Exhibition • 1949-1951, Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture • 1952 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas • 1958, Texas Oil ‘58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas •1962-1963, Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

BILL CONDON (1923-1998) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1923, Born in Houston, Texas • Serves in military during WWII • 1949, Earns B.A. in architecture from Rice Institute • Works for Broesche and Condon Architects • 1998, Dies at Houston residence Selected Exhibitions • 1954-1962, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Texas General Exhibition, Dallas, Texas • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1958, Texas Oil ´58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Dallas, Texas (Traveling) • 1962, The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas • DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

MILDRED DIXON (b. 1914) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1914, Born in Fort Worth, raised in Houston • 1932-35, Attended Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA • Received instruction at the Museum Art School, Houston, in Italy and in Mexico from Carlos Mérida Selected Exhibitions • 1937, 50-55, 57-58, 1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition • 1949, 1950, Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition • 1950, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas • 1952, 1955, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1952, 1956, 1964, Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, Texas • 1962, McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery, London

FRANK DOLEJSKA (1921-1989) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1921, Born in Houston, Texas • 1930s, Studied with McNeill Davidson • Worked alongside Robert Preusser • Served in World War II • Curator and founding member, Contemporary Arts Association

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• 1956, Left the CAA and began metal sculptures • 1989, Died in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1938-1939, 1947, 1949-1955, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1951 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1940, 1948, Texas General Exhibition • 1949 (solo), Corpus Christi Art Museum • 1950-1951, Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition • 1951 (solo), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1951 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

DON EDELMAN (1925-2011) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1925, Born in Bowie, Texas • Moved to Amarillo where spent remainder of childhood • Navy officer in WWII • 1947-1951, B.F.A., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri • 1952, M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois • 1963, Moved to Houston, Industrial Design at Cameron Iron Works • 1975, Became a full-time fine artist • 2011, Dies in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1980, Another Reality, Hooks-Epstein, Houston, Texas • 1982, National Academy of Design • 1987, Museum of Art of the American West, Houston, Texas • 1990, Texas Artists: Another Reality, McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1994, Achieving Men, Watercolor Society of Houston, Houston, Texas • 2006, Picturing Palo Duro, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas Selected Public Collections • Beaumont Well Works, Beaumont, Texas • Cameron Iron Works • Chevron • Enron • Longpoint Bank • San Jacinto Savings • Texas Commerce Medical Bank

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IBSEN ESPADA (b. 1952) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1952, Born in New York, New York • Raised in Puerto Rico • Member of the Core Artist Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1980s, Considered part of the unofficial “Houston School” of artists • Student and studio assistant to artist Dorothy Hood • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1986, Paper, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1989, Black and White, AIR Gallery, Austin, Texas • 1990, Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1991, Texas Printmakers, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas • 1993, A Matter of Time-Dave Folkman: Time Pieces, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas • 1996, The Texas Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1997 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1998 Modern Weavings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1999, Previous Preludes, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas • 2000, Syncope, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2008, Gallery M2, Houston, Texas • 2010, Houston Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China • 2011, Reformulaciones, New Gallery, Houston • 2013, Primitive or Is It?, Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Katy, Texas (catalogue) • 1987, Hispanic Art in the United States: 30 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 2012, 1985 to 2000, New Gallery, Houston Texas • 2013, Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, 1950-1980, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas • Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Katy, Texas • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas • Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

FRANK FREED (1906-1975) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1906, Born in San Antonio, Texas • 1913, Moves to Houston, Texas • 1927, Receives a B.S. in English Literature from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts • 1943, Enlists in the United States Army • 1944-43, Serves in Normandy with the United States Corps of Engineers • 1948, Begins to paint, after visiting museums and exhibitions while in Europe • 1975, Dies in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1948, Texas General Exhibition • 1949, Two group shows in major Houston galleries, Houston, Texas • 1949-1954, 1958-1960, Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1951, National Academy of Design, New York, New York • 1952, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts • 1953, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1956, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1956, First solo exhibition, Alley Theater, Houston, Texas • 1964, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1966–67, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1966–69, Junior Service League Invitational, Longview, Texas • 1968–69, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas • 1968–69, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1967, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1968, 1973, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio • 1966, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Japan • 1969, Carol Lane Gallery • 1972, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1973, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Alliance Française of Houston, Shamrock Hilton, Houston, Texas •1994, Frank Freed: Paintings and Drawings, 1946-1975, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1996, More Than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel • McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas • Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas

HENRI GADBOIS (b. 1930) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1930, Born in Houston, Texas • 1948, Graduated Lamar High School, Houston, Texas • 1952, University of Houston, Bachelor of Fine Arts • 1952, Instructor, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School (now the Glassell School of Art) • 1953, University of Houston, Master of Letters • 1953, Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1954, U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia • 1955, Military Police Battalion, Nurnberg, Germany, had studio space at University of Georgia, Furth, Germany • 1956, Married Leila McConnell, began teaching art in Houston public schools • 1988, Started making faux food for display at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Yuletide • 1990, Retired from teaching, became a docent at MFAH’s Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens • 1995, Started Faux Foods, a company that makes earthenware foods in the 18th and 19th Century manner for Museum display Selected Exhibitions • 1948, Texas General Exhibition • 1949-1960, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1952-1965, 16 Texas Painters, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1954, Allied Art Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1955 (solo), Herbert Institute, Augusta, Georgia • 1958, Texas Oil ‘58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1961, Katy Road, Texas Annual Exhibition, San Antonio Art league Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1962-1963, Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1966, Dubose Galleries, Houston, Texas • 1970, A Pleasant Place, Texas Heart Institute • 1976, Morning Coffee, Terrace Community Hospital • 1984 (solo), Imagination Gallery, Kerrville, Texas • 1998, Early American Life Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen • 1999, Early American Homes Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen • 2004, Seventeen Houston Artists 1950-1965, Brazos Project, Houston, Texas • 2007, Texas Modern, Martin Museum, Waco, Texas

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Selected Public Collections • Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas • Longview Museum, Longview, Texas • Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas • Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas • San Antonio Fine Arts Association, San Antonio, Texas

DOROTHY HOOD (1918-2000) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1918, Born in Bryan, Texas • 1937-1940, Studies at The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence • 1941, Studies at The Art Students League, New York • 1943-1961, Lives in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico • 1961-1972, Instructor at the Museum Fine Arts School, Houston • 1973, Wins the Childe Hassam Purchase Price, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York • 2000, Dies at Houston residence Selected Exhibitions • 1962, 1965, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas • 1963, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1965, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1970, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1971, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1972, 1974, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York • 1975, Dorothy Hood Drawings and Modern Painting: 1900 to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1971, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1978, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • Baylor University, Waco, Texas • Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York • McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas • Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Rice University Collection, Houston, Texas • San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art • The University of Texas at Austin • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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PERRY HOUSE (b. 1947) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1943, Born in Orange, Texas • 1971, M.F.A., California College of Arts, Oakland, California • Mid-1970s, Teaches at California State in Bakersfield, California • Teaches at Houston Community College, Houston, Texas • Teaches at the Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas • Teaches at the Art Institute of Houston, Texas • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • William Graham Gallery • Robison Gallery, Wichita Falls, Texas • Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas • Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas • Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas • Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2000, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas • 2004, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas • 2012, Perry House: Elegance/Violence, Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas

OTIS HUBAND (b. 1933) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1933, Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia • 1955-1956, Attends Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary (now the Virginia Commonwealth University) • 1956-1957, Attends Ventura Junior College, Ventura, California • 1957-1958, Attends California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California • 1958-1961, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts • 1963-1964, Attends Accademia di Bella Arti, Perugia, Italy • 1967-1971, Art Instructor at Houston Museum School of Fine Arts (now the Glassell School of Art) • 1967-1972, Art Instructor at Rice University, summer school for high school students • 1971-1982, Art Instructor at Art League of Houston • 1975, Art Instructor at University of Houston, life drawing • Resides in Houston, Texas

Selected Exhibitions • 1956, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia • 1960, Erick Schendler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia • 1964, Circolo di Universita, Perugia, Italy • 1965-1966, The James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1966-1967, Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1966-1970, Erdon Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1972-1990, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1974, University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, Texas • 1976, Ars Longa Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2010, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • University of Houston Faculty Exhibition, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Giacomo Colderone, Perugia, Italy • Houston Grand Opera, Rigoletto painting for cover, Houston, Texas • Merrill Lynch, Exploration & Development Department, Houston, Texas • Mitchell Energy and Development Corporations, Houston, Texas

HARVEY JOHNSON (b. 1947) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1947, Born in Port Arthur, Texas • 1971, Texas Southern University, Houston, Bachelor of Arts in Education • 1972, Birth of daughter, Ayann N. Johnson, Washington • 1973, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, Masters of Fine Arts • 1977, Ford Foundation Grant to conduct research on African-American crafts • 1978, Birth of son, Amon O. Johnson, Houston, Texas • 1991-1992, Three month trip to Sierra Leone, West Africa to conduct research in continuation of project entitled A Black Aesthetic • 1973-2007, Professor, Art Department, Texas Southern University • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1978, Progressive Cultural Exhibit, Beaumont, Texas • 1979, Contemporary Art Museum, Fire: Texas Artists, Houston, Texas • 1982, One man exhibit, honored by City of Port Arthur, Texas-Library Division, Port Arthur, Texas • 1986, Regional Competitive Exhibitor, Texas Annual • 1986, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1986, The Sixth Annual Atlanta Life Natural Art Competition and Exhibition (1st Prize Award in drawing)

• 1986 (solo), Black Heritage Gallery, Houston • 1989, Masters Choice, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1993, I Remember, Thirty years after the March on Washington: Images of the Civil Rights Movement 1963-1993, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Selected Public Collections • Golden State Mutual Insurance, Los Angeles, California • Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas

LUCAS JOHNSON (1940-2002)

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1940, Born in Hartford, Connecticut • Attends University of California in Los Angeles • 1960, Begins traveling the country • 1962, Arrives in Mexico City • 1967, First exhibition • 1973, Moves to Houston • 1999, Exhibits at Moody Gallery and Museum of East Texas • 1986, Exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2002, Dies in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1964, Drawings, Woodstock, New York • 1965, Galeria Chapultepec, Mexico, D.F. • 1967, Galeria Edan, Acapulco, Mexico • 1969, David Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1971, Gotham Gallery, New York, New York • 1974, Galeria de Arte Misrachi, Mexico, D.F. • 1977, 1985, 1988 (solos), Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1979, Iconos de Oaxaca, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1987, Drawings from the Estuary Series, Serpentine Gallery, London • 1990, Drawings, Museo Ex -Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico • 1994, Drawings from the Underworld, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1996, Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1998, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland • 1999, Laelias, Schomburgkias and Other Still Lifes, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2001, The Orchid Paintings and Other Still Lifes, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas • 2002, Prints and Drawings 1966-2001, Red Bud Gallery, Houston, Texas

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Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, New York • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York • Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana • Jose Luis Cuevas Museum of Drawings, Mexico, D.F., Mexico • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel • National Museum, Warsaw, Poland • San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California • Smithsonian Institution, American Graphics Collection, Washington, D.C. • The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • Toledo Museum, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

PAUL MAXWELL (b. 1925) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1925, Born in Frost Prairie, Arkansas • 1950, B.A., Principia College • 1951, Graduate studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California (under Millard Sheets) • 1952, Assistant Director of Drama Dept. at Putney School, Vermont • 1953-58, Art Instructor, University of Houston and the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1954, Awarded the Julian Onderdonk Purchase Prize by the San Antonio Art League during the Texas General Exhibition • 1962, Director of Hightower Gallery, Oklahoma City Selected Exhibitions • 1951, Los Angeles County Museum of Art • 1953, James Bute Gallery, Houston • 1955, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont • 1957, Witte Museum, San Antonio • 1958, Cushman Gallery, Houston • 1958, Valley House Gallery, Dallas • 1958, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma • 1963, The Alley Gallery, Houston Selected Public Collections • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • First National Bank, Dallas, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma • Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts • Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

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LEILA MCCONNELL (b. 1927) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1927, Born in Los Angeles, California • Family moves to Houston at age 6 • Attends Rice Institute at age 16 • Studies at Museum School of Art, Houston • 1949, Attends the San Francisco School of Fine Arts • 1950-1968, Instructor at Museum School of Art, Houston • 1954-1959, Works for Houston architect Hamilton Brown • 1956, Married Henri Gadbois • 1960, Visits Italy Selected Exhibitions • 1949-1960, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1951, Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1958, Texas Oil ‘58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Texas General Exhibitions • Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas • Leslie Muth Gallery, Houston, Texas •1962-1963, Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 2004, 17-15, Seventeen Houston Artists 1950-1965, Brazos Project, Houston, Texas • 2004-2005, Early Rice Art, Rice University, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • The Old Jail House Art Center, Albany, Texas

HERB MEARS (1923-1999) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1923, Born in New York, New York • 1940, Studies at Harrison School of Fine Art • 1948-1950, Studies at Atelier Leger in Paris, with Fernand Leger • 1950, Studies at Studio Hinna in Rome • 1951, Moves to Houston and opens the Studio of Contemporary Art with his friend and fellow Atelier Leger student, David Adickes • 1959, Awarded Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Prize • Instructor at the Contemporary Arts Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts School, the University of Houston, and Rice University • 1999, Dies in Houston, Texas

Selected Exhibitions • 1952-1955, 1957-1960, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1951, Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas • 1958, Texas Oil ‘58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas •1962, The Southwest: Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston •1962-1963, Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Bute Gallery • DuBose Gallery • Wilhelm Gallery • Nolan-Rankin Gallery • The Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana • The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Hines Interests • Humble Oil • Mitchell Energy • Shell Oil • Texas Instruments

ROBERT MORRIS (b. 1931) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1931, Born in New York City • The Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT: New England Annual: First (Henry Hoppin) Prize); Condec Corp.

Award • D.D. Feldman prize, Dallas • Houston Artists Competition, Museum of Fine Arts, First Prize Selected Exhibitions • 1958-1959, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1960, Annual Exhibition (prize), Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • 1976, 1979 (solos), Washburn Gallery, New York • Alexander Gallery • Richard Feigen Gallery • Allan Gallery • The Drawing Center: (Artists Postcards, Edition 1: circulated by the Smithsonian Institution) • EBK Gallery, Hartford • The Widener Gallery of Trinity College, • The Wesleyan University Center of the Arts • Center for Financial Studies, Fairfield University

• Connecticut Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Show • Connecticut Artist: A Rare Show (Xerox Corp.)

• Museum of Fine Arts • William Reaves Fine Art • Harris Gallery • David Gallery • Louisiana Gallery • The Nave Museum • Gallery K Selected Public Collections • Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania • Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas • Oklahoma Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma • Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

KERMIT OLIVER (b. 1943) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1943, Born in Refugio • 1966, Rice University, studies with Elaine de Kooning • 1967, BFA, Texas Southern University Selected Exhibitions • 1971-83, DuBose Gallery, Houston • 1985, Fresh Paint, Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston • 1989-90, Kermit Oliver: Current Allegories, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont • 1990, The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, The Blaffer Gallery, The University of Houston • 1994, Veiled Images, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi • 1995, Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2003, A Panoramic View, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston • 2005, Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2006, Katie and Kermit Oliver, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas • 2008, Then and Now: The World of Kermit Oliver, The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas • 2010, Kermit Oliver, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas • 2012, Kermit Oliver, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas • Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • El Paso Museum, El Paso, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

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ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1919, Born in Houston, Texas • 1930-39, Studies under Ola McNeill Davidson • 1939-42, Studies at Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of Design, Chicago • 1942-45, Serves in U.S. Army during WWII • 1946-47, Studies at Art Center School, Los Angeles • 1947-54, Instructor, Museum School of Art, Houston • 1948-51, Co-director, Contemporary Arts Association • 1949-51, Professor, University of Houston • 1954-85, Professor, MIT, Cambridge Selected Exhibitions • 1935-40, 1942-44, 1947-52, 1954-55, Annual Houston Artists Exhibitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1938, National Exhibition of American Art, Rockefeller Center, New York • 1940, 1942-44, 1946, 1947, 1948, Texas General Exhibitions • 1941, Directions in American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh • 1942, 1947, 1951, Art Institute of Chicago • 1946, Annual Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, New York • 1946-47, Contemporary American Annuals, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • 1948 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1951-51, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe • 1957, A Survey of Texas Painting, Dallas Museum of Art • 1991, Retrospective, MIT Museum • 1996, Texas Modern & Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2007, Texas Modern, Waco, Texas Selected Public Collections • Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas • National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. • Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University

CHARLES SCHORRE (1925-1996)

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Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1925, Born in Cuero, Texas • 1948, The University of Texas at Austin, BFA • 1949-50, Instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School • 1960-72, Rice University, Assistant Professor of Fine Art • 1970, Initiated Artist’s Handbook series • 1974, Conducted a month-long university workshop in

Guadalajara, Mexico • 1979, Mobil Corporation Artist in Residence, Saudi Arabia • National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient • 1986, Texas Artist of the Year, Received City of Houston Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts • 1993, Educator Award from the American Institute of Architecture • 1996, Dies in Houston, Texas

Selected Public Collections • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas • ESSO Eastern • Exxon, New York • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • National Endowment for the Arts • Shell Oil Corporation • U.S. Marine Corps

Selected Exhibitions • 1947, Texas General Exhibition • 1949, Annual Exhibition of Texas Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1950, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1964, Charles Schorre: Cruciforms, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1965, Charles Schorre, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1965, Houston Annual Area Exhibition, Houston, received first award • 1966-1983 (solos), DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1966, Houston Exhibition ‘66, Houston, received first award • 1969, First Southwestern States Watercolor Annual, received first award • 1970, 103rd Annual/American Watercolor Society, New York, received Windsor Newton Award • 1973, Private Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1974, Darwings, Collages & Paintings, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1977, International Drawing Biennale, United Kingdom • 1978 (solo), David B. Findlay Gallery, New York • 1980, Retrospective, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas • 1981, Charles Schorre: Pages from Books Unpublished, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1984-1995, Meredith Long & Company, Houston • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1986, The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1989, Charles Schorre: Photocollages, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas • 1990, group exhibition, Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, Rice University, Houston, Texas • 1993, Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 19431993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1898, Born in Cuero • 1921, Baccalaureate in architecture, Texas A&M College, College Station • 1928, Moves to New York, studies at Art Students League of New York • 1929, Moves to Houston, works for advertising agency • 1952, Works begin to appear in Humble Oil’s Texas Sketchbook publication • 1966, Retires advertising agency and devotes himself to painting • 1977, Texas Legislature designates Schiwetz Texas State Artist • 1984, Dies in Cuero

E.M. “BUCK” SCHIWETZ (1898-1984)

Selected Exhibitions • 1930, 1952, 1954, American Watercolor Society • 1930-40, 1943-48, 1950-53, 1958-59, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition • 1932, 1953, 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1933, 1947, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin • 1936, Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas • 1937, 1948, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio • 1940, 1943-48, Texas General Exhibition • 1946, 1951-52, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts • 1952, Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York • 1961, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio Selected Public Collections • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Exxon Corporation, Houston, Texas • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas • Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas • University of Texas, Austin, Texas • Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

CHESTER SNOWDEN (1900-1984) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • University of Texas • Cooper Union Art School • Art Students League • Boardman Robinson • Walter J. Duncan • Harry Sternberg • Grand Central Art School • Richard Art School, Los Angeles • Award: Art League of Houston, 1953, 1955 • Award: Beaumont Museum of Art, 1958 Selected Exhibitions •1935 - 1937, 1938 (prize), 1939 (prize), 1940, 19421945, 1946 (prize), 1947-1953, 1954 (prize), 1955 (prize), 1957-1960, Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1941, Corcoran Gallery biennial • 1946, Southwest Texas Exhibition • 1941, 1943, 1945, 1947-48 Texas General Exhibition • 1952 (solo), Junior League of Houston • 1956, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston, Texas • Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX • Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin Selected Public Collections • Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.

EARL STALEY (b. 1938)

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1938, Born in Chicago, Illinois • 1975, National Endowment for the Arts • 1978, National Endowment for the Arts • 1981, Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome • 1985, Mayor’s Award, City of Houston • 1985, National Endowment for the Arts Selected Exhibitions • 1975, Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum, New York • 1978, Art of Texas, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin • 1980, Earl Staley Mythologies, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1981, Two Views of Houston, San Antonio Art Institute Gallery, San Antonio, Texas • 1981-83 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York • 1982, Houston in Dallas, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1983, Earl Staley: 1973-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX and the New Museum of

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Contemporary Art, New York, New York • 1983, New Art From a New City, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburgh, Austria • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1986, The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986 and Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston, 1969-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1988, Direction and Diversity, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1989, The Ruth Siegel Gallery at the Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois • 1989, Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality, Ruth Siegel Gallery, LTD., New York, New York • 1990, New Art of the West, Eitellijorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana • 1990, Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1993, Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1995, Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum, New York , New York • 1995, Texas Myths and Realities, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1997, Alvin Marshall and Earl Staley, Artistic Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona • 1997, Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1998, Earl Staley and Suzanne Staley, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas • 1999, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000, Barbara Davis, Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas • 2001, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2005, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas • 2009, M2 Gallery, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas • San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

RICHARD STOUT (b. 1934) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1934, Born in Beaumont, Texas • 1957, B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois • 1969, M.F.A., The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 66

• 1969-74, Instructor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1975-95, Professor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 2010, CASETA Artist of the Year (The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art) • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1951, Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas • 1953, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois • 1955 – 78, Beaumont Art Museum Tri-State Annual, Beaumont, Texas • 1956 (solo), 1014 Art Center, Chicago, Illinois • 1958 and 1961 (solo), Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • 1963-85, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas (numerous solo shows) • 1965, Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1968-70, Contemporary American Art, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, toured Australia • 1973, Three Americans, Texas Fine Arts Association • 1974, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1975 (solo), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1975, Five Painters, Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1997 (solo), Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas • 2007, Texas Modern, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas • 2010 (solo), Richard Stout: Alternate Realities, The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas • 2010 (solo), Richard Stout: Paintings – Sky, Sea & Earth, Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas • 2011, Southeast Texas Art: Cross-Currents and Influences 1925 - 1965, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas • Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas • Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany • McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas • Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

STELLA SULLIVAN (b. 1924) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1924, Born in Houston, Texas • 1945, Earns B.A. in architecture from Rice University • 1949-1950, Studies at Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston • 1950-1951, Studies at School of Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan • 1954, Earns MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan • 1961-1970, Instructor at Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston • 1962-1966, Instructor at University of Houston • 1971, Opens the Stella Sullivan School of Art, Houston Selected Exhibitions • 1951-55 and 1959-60, Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1954 (solo), Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan • 1956, D.D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas • 1962-1963, Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston, Texas • 1968, Houston Baptist College, Houston, Texas • Leslie Muth Gallery, Houston, Texas • David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas • Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Texas Institute for Research and Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas • Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Houston, Texas • Anderson, Greenwood and Company, Houston, Texas • Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Houston, Texas • D.D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas, Texas • Bank of the Southwest, Houston, Texas

TRUDY SWEEN (b. 1929) Selected Biographical and Career Information • 1929, Born Pittsburg, PA • 1967, Earned BFA, University of Houston • One hundred thirty exhibitions in museums and galleries on three continents • Four solo Museum exhibitions • Founding Board of Directors of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston • Listed in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. • Currently resides in Corpus Christi, Texas

Selected Exhibitions • 1979, FIRE!, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston • 1980 (solo), Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas • 1980 (solo) Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas • 1980 (solo) Texas State Capital Rotunda, Austin, Texas • 1980 (solo) National Museum of Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

ARTHUR TURNER (b. 1940) Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1940, Born Houston, Texas • 1962, B.A., North Texas State University, Denton, Texas • 1966, M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan • 1969, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1973, Guest Instructor, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1966-68, Assistant Professor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia • 1965-66, The Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, Michigan, Selected Solo Selected Exhibitions • 1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1965, Drawings from Seventeen States, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1970, Drawings from Nine States, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1971 (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1995, Images from Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1996, Arthur Turner: The Pecos River Series and Antecedents, Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, Texas • 1997, Group show, The Best of Houston’s Print Makers, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas • 1997, Group show, Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas • 1999, Earth, Fire and Water, Brazosport Art Center, Lake Jackson, Texas • 2000, Group show, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri • 2000, Group show, Houston Area Exhibition 2000, Blaffer Art Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 2001, Windows of Light, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

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• 2001 (solo), Reserved Light, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas • 2002, Forces of Nature, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas • 2002, Watercolors, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 2002, Spirit of the Planet, The Art in Embassies Program, Vienna, Austria, organized for the residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Nations • 2003, Group show, Nature Studied: Cycles of Life, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, Clear Lake, Texas • 2003, Group show, Überblick 2003, Malakademie Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg, Austria • 2004, The Landscape as a Point of Reference, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas • 2004, Indigo Variations, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas Selected Public Collections • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi • Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan • Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas • East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee • McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas • McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas

DICK WRAY (1933-2011)

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights • 1933, Born in Houston, Texas • 1955-58, Attends University of Houston, School of Architecture • 1959, Attends Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany • 1962, Receives Ford Foundation Purchase Award • 1964, Guest artist at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles • 1968-82, Instructor, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1978, Receives National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grant • 2000, Texas Artist of the Year, Art League, Houston • 2011, Dies in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • 1960, Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1962, Southwest Painting and Sculpture Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1963, Dick Wray Paintings, Louisiana Gallery, Houston • 1969, Tamarind Homage to Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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• 1970 (solo), Dick Wray Paintings, The Museum of Fine Arts School of Art, Houston • 1971, Other Coast Exhibition, ‘71, California State University, Long Beach • 1974, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1975 (solo), Dick Wray, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1977, Dick Wray: First New York Exhibition, Lerner – Heller, New York • 1978 (solo), Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas • 1979, Fire! Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston • 1979, 1989 (solos), Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas • 1985, Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 1986, Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston, 1969-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1986, Third Western State Exhibition, Western States Art Foundation, traveling exhibition to The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; and other states.

• 1988, Texas Art, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas • 1990, Printmaking in Texas: the 1980s, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth • 1993, Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 19431993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1996, Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, • 2007, Texas Modern, Martin Museum, Waco, Texas Selected Public Collections • Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York • Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi • Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas • Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas • Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California • San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

Above: Arthur Turner, Amsterdam Series #1, 1967, acrylic on canvas.

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Above: Frank Dolejska, Blue Whale, 1938, oil on board. Private Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

Back Cover: Jack Boynton, Untitled, 1956, oil on canvas. The Summers Collection.

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