A Faux-Food Affaire:
Ceramics by Henri Gadbois
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Still Lifes by Richard Stout
December 8 - January 13, 2018
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
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A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
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A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
As Thanksgiving ends and the Holiday season begins, Henri Gadbois presents the perfect way to bring home a fruit cake… and never have to eat it. A Faux-Food Affaire: Ceramics by Henri Gadbois & Still Lifes by Richard Stout offers seasonal delicacies such as plum pudding, cheesecake and fruit cake ; The only catch- you can’t actually eat them. These ceramic sculptures are molded after the real foods, which the artist makes (and enjoys) himself. He then paints the object to resemble the prepared food, so expertly that you want to dig right in. Houston Founding Modernist Henri Gadbois has been creating his Faux-Food items since 1989, when as a docent at Houston’s Bayou Bend Collection, he was asked to create a 14-inch stew-filled pastry for the Museum’s Christmas Table. He obliged, and since has been making molds and creating his Faux-Foods for museums and private collections across the nation, including George Washington’s Mount Vernon. This exhibition will also feature smaller, individual food items that can double as the most delicious ornament on your tree. Accompanying Gadbois in this Food Affaire, is fellow Houston Founding Modernist, Richard Stout. Stout's still life series features delectable depictions of cheesecake , brownies, and eclaires, while also touching on themes of culture and travel. -William Reaves & Sarah Foltz, Reaves | Foltz Fine Art
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Artist
Title of Work
Date
Medium
Size (inches)
A Faux-Food Affaire: Ceramics by Henri Gadbois & Still Lifes by Richard Stout 1
Henri Gadbois
Oysters on the Half-Shell
2017
ceramic
2
Henri Gadbois
Platter of Cookies
2017
ceramic
3
Henri Gadbois
Plate of Candies
2017
ceramic
4
Henri Gadbois
The Fruitcake
2017
ceramic
5
Henri Gadbois
A Slice of Cake
2017
ceramic
6
Henri Gadbois
Strawberry Shortcake Ornament
2017
ceramic
7
Henri Gadbois
Blueberry Muffin Ornament
2017
ceramic
8
Henri Gadbois
Lemon Puff Pastry Ornament
2017
ceramic
9
Henri Gadbois
Jalapeno Pepper Ornament
2017
ceramic
10
Henri Gadbois
Pomegranate Ornament
2017
ceramic
11
Henri Gadbois
Strawberry Ornament
2017
ceramic
12
Henri Gadbois
Lemon Rasberry Puff Tart Ornament
2017
ceramic
13
Henri Gadbois
Toast-Half Ornament
2017
ceramic
14
Henri Gadbois
Croissant Ornament
2017
ceramic
15
Henri Gadbois
Cream Cheese Ornament
2017
ceramic
16
Henri Gadbois
Oyster on the Half-Shell Ornament 2017 ceramic
17
Richard Stout
The Brownies
2017
oil on canvas
18x24
18
Richard Stout
The Party is Over
2017
oil on canvas
14x22
19
Richard Stout
The Cheesecake
2017
oil on canvas
18x24
20
Richard Stout
Roll with the Guadalajara Cathedral
2017
oil on canvas
8x8
21
Richard Stout
Roll with the Brandenburg Gate
2017
oil on canvas
8x8
22
Richard Stout
Roll with the Port of Hamburg
2017
oil on canvas
8x8
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
1. Henri Gadbois, Oysters on the Half-Shell, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
2. Platter of Cookies, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
3. Plate of candies, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
4. The Fruitcake, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
5. A Slice of Cake, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
6. Stawberry Shortcake ornament, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
7. Blueberry Muffin Ornament, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
8. Lemon Puff Pastry ornament, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
9. Jalapeno Pepper Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
10. Pomegranate Ornament, 2017, ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
11. Strawberry Ornament, 2017,ceramic and leather
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
12. Lemon Rasberry Puff Tart Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
13. A Slice of Toast Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
14. Croissant Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
15. Cream Cheese Pastry Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
16. Oyster on the Half-Shell Ornament, 2017,ceramic
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
HENRI GADBOIS (b. 1930)
Born in Houston, Texas to a father working as a commercial artist for Madison Southwest, Henri Gadbois was exposed to art all his life. His father was vehemently opposed to abstract art and, although arguments regarding the subject matter were frequent, Gadbois was greatly influenced by his father. Gadbois was also strongly influenced by Noma Henderson, his high school art teacher. She introduced Gadbois to ceramics, leading to his first exhibition which featured a small bowl he created while still in high school. Gadbois graduated from Lamar High School and earned his bachelor of fine arts and master of letters from the University of Houston in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Gadbois studied under Texas greats Robert Preusser and Lowell Collins, stating that his time at the University of Houston was one of great change. During his U.S. military service in Germany, he had studio space at the University of Georgia in Furth which allowed him to continue to paint. Shortly before retiring from public school teaching, Gadbois began making faux food for the Yuletide Celebration at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens. In 1995, he started Faux Foods, a company that makes earthenware foods in the 18th and 19th Century manner for museums.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
• 1930 Born in Houston, Texas • 1952 BFA, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1952 Instructor, Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1953 Master of Letters, University of Houston, Houston, Texas • 1953 Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1954−55 Served in U.S. Army • 1956 Married artist, Leila McConnell • 195690 Teacher, Houston Independent School District, Houston,
Texas • 1995present Owner, Faux Foods© • Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards •
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1953 Cash Prize, Portrait 1954 Purchase Prize/Allied Art, Red Tights 1955 (December) Purchase Prize, Londschaft, Stuttgart 1957 Materials Prize, Illogical Organism 1958 Honorable Mention, Whiteout 1960 Cash Prize, Three Texas General/Annual:
• 1961 Purchase Prize/SA Art League, Katy Road
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1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948–1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1949–51 24th–26th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1951 Houston Post Easter Art Contest, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1952 27th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1952–65 16 Texas Painters, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1953 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (cash prize) 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1954 Texas Watercolor Society 5th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1954 29th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (purchase 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
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1955 (March) 30th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1955 (December) 31st Annual Exhibition of Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (purchase prize) 1955 Solo, Herbert Institute, Augusta, Georgia • 1955–56 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art: An Exhibit of 100 Paintings, traveled; 1956 Feb at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Little Oaks) catalogue • 1956–57 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art: 1956 Invitational Exhibition, traveled; 1956 Dec–1957 Jan at McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas (HauptmarketNurnberg) checklist • 1958 D. D. Feldman Competitive Award Exhibit: The Contemporary Work of 88 Texas Artists, traveled; 1958 Jul– Aug at McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Budding Stump) checklist 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956– 1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue) 1957 32nd Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (materials prize) 1958 Texas Oil ’58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Bank of the Southwest, Houston; Dallas Public Library, Dallas; Republic National Bank of Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 1958 33rd Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (honorable mention) 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958– 1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 1959 34th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1960 22nd Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1960−1961, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum,
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San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1960 35th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (cash prize) 1961 23rd Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1961– 1962, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize) 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 1962–63 Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 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, Texas 1965 Longview Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas 1965 Solo, Houston Baptist College, Houston, Texas 1965 Painters and Partners, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas 1966 Opening exhibition of DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1968 10th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Nicholson Memorial Library, Junior Service League of Longview, Texas 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) 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 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950−1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas 2004–05 Rice Institute and the Visual Arts in Houston: 1900–1960, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965,
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Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas 2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935−1965), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (catalogue) 2007–08 Urban Texas: Changing Images of an Evolving State, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, 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 Leila McConnell and Henri Gadbois: Side by Side, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston/Downtown, Houston, Texas 2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Southeast Texas Art: Cross-Currents and Influences, 1925–1965, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, 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 2012 Interpretations of the Texas Hill Country by Henri Gadbois, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Restless Heart: The Collectors’ Quest to Find Texas in Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas 2013 A Tribute to Texas Rivers, 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 2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of a Texas Heartland, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas 2014 A 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
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2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) • 2015 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2015 Midcentury Montage: Works by Three Houston Modernists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2015 Texas Modernists: The Abstract Impulse, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas (catalogue) • 2016 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945−1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2017 Henri Gadbois: Texas Woodlands, Celebrating Houston’s Founding Modernists, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
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University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas • San Antonio Fine Arts Association, San Antonio, Texas • Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas (1970 A Pleasant Place)
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
17. The Brownies, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 18x24 inches.
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
18. The Party is Over, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 14x22 inches.
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
19. The Cheesecake,1989, acrylic on canvas, 18x24 inches..
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
20. Roll with the Guadalajara Cathedral, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 8x8 inches.
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
21. Roll with the Brandenburg Gate, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 8x8 inches.
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
22. Roll with the Port of Hamburg, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 8x8 inches.
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
Richard Gordon Stout Richard Stout was born in 1934 in Beaumont, Texas. He quickly discovered his interest in art and, while still in high school, studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati during summer visits with family in Ohio. Stout received a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). He completed graduate studies and earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1959 to 1967, Stout was an instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. After completing his MFA, he began teaching art at the University of Houston, a career he maintained until his retirement in 1996. Stout was named Texas Artist of the Year in 2004 by the Art League of Houston and, in 2010, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA). He resides in Houston, Texas. Selected Prizes, Awards • • • •
1956 Purchase Prize, Beaumont Art Museum Tri-State Annual 1958 Cash Award, Houston Annual 1962 Purchase Prize, Texas General 1975 First Prize, Houston Area Exhibition
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1958, 1961 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas 1959 New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas 1959 Hayden Calhoun Galleries, Dallas, Texas 1964 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri 1968 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York 1968, 1971 McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas 1973 Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (catalogue) 1975 Richard Stout: Recent Paintings, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1981 Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, East Germany 1983 Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York 1984 M.S.C. Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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1987-89, 1991 W. A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas 1994 Richard Stout’s Paintings, Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1996 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas 1997 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1997 Structures of Intimacy, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1997 Paintings & Drawings, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas 1998 Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas 1998 Richard Stout Paints, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana 1998 Mulcahy Modern, Dallas, Texas 1999 Soul’s Journey, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas; Brevard County Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, Florida (catalogue) 1999 The Vernacular of Beauty, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2000 Richard Stout, Art Museum of Melbourne, Florida 2001 In Pursuit of the Sublime, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 2003 Recent Work, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas 2004 Approaching the Limits of Space, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2004 Texas Artist of the Year 2004, Art League of Houston, Texas 2004 Richard Stout: 2004 Texas Artist of the Year, Chase Bank Heritage Hall, Houston, Texas 2004 New Photogravures, Tembo Collaborative Studio, Houston, Texas 2006 Recent Paintings, Sculpture, Photogravures, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas 2006 The Arc of Perception, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2009 Gulf Coast Communion: 35 Impressions of the Texas Coast 1950-2009, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2010 Alternate Realities, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas (catalogue) 2010 Richard Stout Paintings—Sky, Sea & Earth, UAC Gallery,
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Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2011 Painting and Sculpture from 2010 and 2011, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas 2011 The Early Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 The Last Home Show, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas 2015 Return to the Sea, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas
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1950-1959 Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas 1951-52 Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio 1952-53 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1953-57 Tri-State Annual, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas (regular exhibitions 1955–1978, purchase prize, 1956) The 1014 Art Center, with Jack Beal, Chicago, Illinois 1956 Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1957 Denver Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition, Denver, Colorado 1957 Momentum, Mid-Continental Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois 1957,( catalogue) Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1957-58 Cushman Gallery, Houston, Texas 1957-58 Texas Oil ’58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, circulated: Bank of the Southwest, Houston; Dallas Public Library, Dallas; Republic National Bank of Dallas, Texas 1958, (catalogue) 33rd Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (December 1958, cash award) Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1958-59 New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas 1958-60 34th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1959) 1959 D. D. Feldman Competitive Award Exhibit: The Contemporary Work of 82 Texas Artists, traveling exhibition 1959 (catalogue) Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas 1960-1969 Delgado Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition, New
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Orleans, Louisiana 1960 35th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1960 Butler Institute of American Art, Annual Exhibition, Youngstown, Ohio 1960 American Provincetown Exhibition, Provincetown, Massachusetts 1960-61 Fifth International Hallmark Art Award Exhibition, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1960-70 Sun Carnival Annual Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas 1961 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1961 Second Triennial of Original Watercolor Graphics, Basel, Switzerland 1961-70 Oklahoma Annual Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 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, purchase prize by Dallas Museum of Art) 1962 Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1962-86 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas 1963 13th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, 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, Texas 1964 Houston Dimension Exhibition, Houston, Texas 1964 Festival of the Bible in the Arts, Temple Emanuel, Houston, Texas 1965 Texas Painting & Sculpture Annual, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1966 100 Contemporary American Drawings (collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Museum of the University of
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Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1966) 1967-80 Faculty Exhibition, University of Houston, Texas 1968 The Sphere of Art in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Commission, Texas Pavilion, Hemisfair ‘68, San Antonio, Texas 1968-70 Contemporary American Art, U.S. Department of Commerce, toured Australia 1970 Award Winners Exhibition, Museum of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1970 The Larger Canvas, Republic Bank, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1970 The Highway, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1970-71 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas 1971 Other Coast Exhibition ‘71, California State University, Long Beach, California (catalogue) 1971 Larger Canvas Two, Republic Bank, Houston, Texas, (catalogue) 1971 Main Street One, City of Houston, Texas 1971 New Works of Former Award Winners, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, traveling exhibition 1972 Three Americans, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, traveling 1973 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas 1974 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1974 Davis and Long Gallery, New York, New York 1975 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (catalogue, first prize) 1975 Five Painters, Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1976-78 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas 1977 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas 1977 Texas Twenty, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas 1977 Art Today: U.S.A. III, Tehran, Iran 1977 International Art Fair, Cologne, West Germany 1979 Doors: Houston Artists, Alley Theatre, Houston Festival,
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Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1979 Achenbach & Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, West Germany 1980 Man and the Environment, International Graphic Portfolio, 50 invited artists, Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, Germany (catalogue) 1980 Eros, Julius Hummel Kunsthandlung, Vienna, Austria 1980 Gallerie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland 1981 Gallerie de Arti Pellegrino, Bologna, Italy 1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue) 1983 Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (catalogue) 1983 Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1983 New Art From a New City: Houston, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, circulated: Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany, and other sites (catalogue) 1984, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (1984) 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, circulated: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue) 1985 The Avant Old Guard, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas 1985 Works on Paper: Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue: same as New Art from a New City: Houston, 1983, traveled to Austria and Germany) 1985 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas 1986 The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1988 Houston ’88, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas 1988 McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas 1988 Drawn from Life, Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas 1988 Texas Art: An Exhibition selected from the Menil Collection,
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Trustees’ Collection of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Menil Collection Richmond Hall, Houston, Texas (catalogue, texts by Neil Printz, Marilyn Zeitlin, and Alison de Lima Greene) 1989 Looking at Color, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas 1989 The Food Show, Grand Central Galleries, New York, New York 1989 Texas Figurative Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas 1991 Texas Art Celebration ’91, Assistance League of Houston, Texas 1992 Island Inspired, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas 1993 Conventional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas 1993 Texas Art Celebration ’93, Assistance League of Houston, Texas 1995 Faith in Vision, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas 1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas 1996 Texas Modern and Postmodern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2000 Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas 2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900-1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas 2007 Jack Boynton and Richard Stout: Early Works in Houston, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935-1965), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (catalogue) 2009 Painting West Texas: 35 Artists/100 Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2009 A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, 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
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2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009-10 Texas Art Seen, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas 2009-10 The Texas Aesthetic: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Water Rites: Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Texas Collages: A Tribute to Kurt Schwitters, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Southeast Texas Art: Cross-Currents and Influences 1925– 1965, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, 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) 2011 Breakthrough: Sixty Years of Texas Abstraction, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2012 A Survey of Texas Modernists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2012 Texas Expressionism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Restless Heart: The Collectors’ Quest to Find Texas in Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas 2013 A Tribute to Texas Rivers, 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 2013 Lives Played Out on Canvas: Paintings by Otis Huband, Richard Stout and Dick Wray, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas
A Faux-Food Affaire: Henri Gadbois & Richard Stout
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2014 Pursuit of the Sublime: The Art of David Cargill & Richard Stout, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 A 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 2014 Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism and the American Southwest, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (catalogue) 2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) 2015 Texas Modernists: The Abstract Impulse, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas (catalogue) 2016 Texas Originals: Six Bayou City Expressionists, William Reaves/ Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2016 TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 2016 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945-1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2017 Transient Views: The Places of our Lives, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2017-18 Solo, Sense of Home: The Art of Richard Stout, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, circulated: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston/Downtown (book by same title published by Texas A&M University Press, 2017)
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Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Kupferstichkabinett, Museum of Fine Art, Dresden, Germany McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas University of Houston, Texas University of Texas at Austin, Texas Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas
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Artist Edwards, Katie Robinson. Midcentury Modern Art in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Greene, Alison de Lima, Peter C. Marzio, Shannon Halwes, Kathleen Robinson. Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2000. Johnson, Patricia Covo. Contemporary Art in Texas. Roseville East, New South Wales, Australia: Craftsman House, 1995. Reynolds, Sarah C. Houston Reflections: Art in the City,
About William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art
H OUSTON’S T EXAS- C ENTERED G ALLERY William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, originally established in 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.
The gallery showcases many of the state’s most accomplished and recognized talents, all of whom have significant
connections to Texas and have evidenced the highest standards of quality in their work, training, and professionalism. In addition to its general focus on Early Texas Art, the gallery places special emphasis on the rediscovery and presentation
of midcentury works by Houston and South Texas artists. William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is the foremost provider of
Texas Modern Art, which includes midcentury masters and pioneering expressionists working in the state. The gallery 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.
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