Houston's Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY RICHARD STOUT & FRIENDS

october 13 - november 4, 2017

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY RICHARD STOUT & FRIENDS

on view: october 13 - november 4, 2017 opening reception: saturday, october 14, 6:00-8:30pm artist talk & book signing: saturday, september 23, 2:00-4:00pm 2 1 4 3

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HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY RICHARD STOUT & FRIENDS Featuring works by: RICHARD STOUT JOHN ALEXANDER JACK BOYNTON IBSEN ESPADA DOROTHY HOOD OTIS HUBAND LEILA MCCONNELL JESUS MOROLES CHARLES SCHORRE JAMES SURLS DICK WRAY

This fall signifies a very important moment in Texas Art with a multivalent celebration of the art of Richard Stout, one of Houston’s most influential abstract painters. Coinciding with the release of his monograph Sense of Home: The Art of Richard Stout and museum retrospective exhibition opening at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art presents Houston’s Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends. This exhibition will feature a magnificent selection of fresh works from the artist’s studio, as well as works by many of his peers, including artists Jack Boynton, Ibsen Espada, Dorothy Hood, Leila McConnell, Charles Schorre and Dick Wray.

Two weeks prior to the opening of the gallery’s exhibition, Stout’s work will also be the subject of a traveling retrospective exhibition set to open in Beaumont at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas on September 29 and will run through December 3, 2017. The exhibition will subsequently travel to Corpus Christi (Art Museum of South Texas) in Spring 2018 before returning for exhibition at the University of Houston Downtown (O’Kane Gallery) in Fall 2018. We urge patrons to view the exhibition at one of these venues. We know that you will not be disappointed.

Additionally, in Sense of Home: The Art of Richard Stout, recently published by the Texas A&M University Press, Stout’s career and body of work are authoritatively examined by five important art historians, including perspectives by David E. Brauer (formerly of the Glassell School), Jim Edwards (Houston Baptist University), Katie Robinson Edwards (formerly of Baylor University and now at Umlauf Sculpture Center), Sarah Beth Wilson (Art Museum of Southeast Texas) and Mark White (University of Oklahoma).

As this gallery show comes to fruition, we are mindful that our city continues to rebuild and rejuvenate from the recent disaster of Hurricane Harvey. As Stout’s work has always addressed the natural specter and vicissitudes of the Texas Coast, we view this exhibition as the perfect artistic tribute to the indomitable spirit and resilience of Houston and our surrounding coastal communities. In keeping with our Standing for Houston Art and Artists Initiative, we hope that you will make the time to attend, and please know that the gallery will contribute a portion of proceeds of any purchase from the exhibition to The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.

No. Artist Title of Work Date Medium Size (inches) Housont's Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends 1

Richard Stout

A Celebration

2017

acrylic on canvas

40x30

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Richard Stout

A Party

2017

acrylic on canvas

30x22

3

Richard Stout

A Pause

2017

acrylic on canvas

36x48

4

Richard Stout

Evening on the Coast

2017

acrylic on canvas

40x60

5

Richard Stout

Far From Home #1

2017

acrylic on canvas

30x40

6

Richard Stout

Far Form Home #2

2017

acrylic on canvas

36x48

7

Richard Stout

Morning on the Coast

2017

acrylic on canvas

48x60

8

Richard Stout

Ready for Passage

2017

acrylic on canvas

36x48

9

Richard Stout

Untitled-Broad Acres

2017

acrylic on canvas

30x40

10

Richard Stout

Untitled

2017

acrylic on canvas

30x40

11

Richard Stout

The Planting

2017

acrylic on canvas

38x30

12

Richard Stout

Untitled

2017

acrylic on canvas

40x30

13

Richard Stout

Twilight

2017

acrylic on canvas

36x60

14

Richard Stout

Texas City

2017

acrylic on canvas

30x40

15

Richard Stout

Bright Storm

1956

pastel

25x38

16

Richard Stout

Amalfi

1966

oil on canvas

24x30

17

Richard Stout

Evening

1963

oil on canvas

15.75x19.75

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Richard Stout

Fourth Day

1963

oil on canvas

33.5x48

19

Richard Stout

Future

1966

acrylic on canvas

24x36

20

Richard Stout

Green Dome

1962

oil on canvas

20x28

21

Richard Stout

Mexico (Guanajuato)

1963

oil on canvas

24x30

No. Artist Title of Work Date Medium Size (inches) Housont's Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends 22

Richard Stout

Untitled

1961-62

oil on canvas

48x38

23

Richard Stout

Untitled

1972

acrylic on canvas

40x30

24

Ibsen Espada

Blue Lizard

1987

mixed media on paper

37x72.5

25

Ibsen Espada

Spartacus

2011

mixed media on paper on canvas

72x56

26

Ibsen Espada

Treasure Hunt

1998

mixed media on paper on canvas

30.5x55

27

Ibsen Espada

Turquoise Memories

2016

mixed media on rice paper

26x34.5

28

Ibsen Espada

Untitled

1986

oil on paper

29

Ibsen Espada

Untitled (Black/Yellow Weaving)

2017

mixed media on rice paper

26.75x35

30

Ibsen Espada

Untitled (Pink Weaving)

2017

mixed media on rice paper

27x39

31

Ibsen Espada

Victory

2011

mixed media on canvas

54.5x39

32

Ibsen Espada

Alhambra

2017

painting on okawara rice paper collage

13.25x16.5

33

Ibsen Espada

Furgencio

2017

painting on okawara rice paper collage

22x26

34

Jack Boynton

Event in Green

1970

acrylic on canvas

79.5x68

35

Jack Boynton

Stars and Stripes

1963

graphite on paper

10x10

36

Jack Boynton

Sunstone

1957

mixed media on canvas

40x30

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Jack Boynton

The Blind Beast

1959

oil on canvas

70x80

38

Jack Boynton

Untitled

1963

graphite on paper

10x10

39

Jack Boynton

Untitled

1982

mixed media on canvas on board

8x7.75

40

Jack Boynton

Untitled

1985

watercolor and pencil on paper

8x8

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Dorothy Hood

Flying Aztec

1987

oil on canvas

70x60

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Dorothy Hood

Sea Exodus

1977

oil on canvas

70x60

35.5x72

No. Artist Title of Work Date Medium Size (inches) Housont's Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends 43

Leila McConnell

44

Leila McConnell

45

Green Scape with White Ring

1980

oil on canvas

48x36

Mysterious Ball

1980

oil on canvas

36x48

Leila McConnell

Rolling Hills

1988

oil on canvas

24x36

46

Leila McConnell

The Black Band

2015

oil on canvas

48x36

47

Leila McConnell

Untitled (Browns)

1986

oil on canvas

66x66

48

Charles Schorre

Dawn Dance

1986

oil on canvas

36x48

49

Charles Schorre

Terminal

1972

acrylic on canvas

84x84

50

Charles Schorre

Pariscape 2

1980

acrylic on canvas

60x60

51

Charles Schorre

Ultramerge 3

1981

acrylic on canvas

36x96

52

Charles Schorre

Aqua Spring

1973

acrylic on canvas

61x84

53

Charles Schorre

God'shadowaltzing

1989

acrylic on canvas

36x48

54

Charles Schorre

Sandsignal

1987

acrylic on canvas

48x48

55

Charles Schorre

Reflected Sunset Sounds

1981

acrylic on canvas

60x60

56

Charles Schorre

Untitled

1987

clay plate sculpture

14x14x2.5

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Charles Schorre

Untitled

1987

clay plate sculpture

14x14x2.5

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Charles Schorre

God's Glove Walking

no date

acrylic on canvas

48x36

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Dick Wray

Untitled

1987

oil on canvas

68x58

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Dick Wray

No Good Black Magic

1962

mixed media

16.25x20.25

61

Dick Wray

Untitled 1009

2002

oil on canvas

36x48

62

Dick Wray

Untitled 1023

2006

oil on canvas

48x36

63

Dick Wray

Untitled 1120

1997

photo-litho collage & oil on canvas

76x53

No. Artist Title of Work Date Medium Size (inches) Housont's Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends 64

Dick Wray

Untitled 1136 ( Blue & Green)

2001

photo-litho collage & oil on canvas

40x30

65

Dick Wray

Untitled 1766

1998

oil on canvas

18x24

66

Dick Wray

Untitled (Spiral)

1980

oil on canvas

68x58

67

John Alexander

Stick WIcomb's Backyard

1987

oil on canvas

77x83

68

Otis Huband

An Astonishment!

2017

oil stick on canvas

43x65.25

69

Otis Huband

Full Moon

2016

oil on canvas

43.5x67

70

Otis Huband

1,000 Cuts

2013

oil stick on canvas

69.5x43.5

71

Otis Huband

Soft Rapollo 2

2000

oil stick on canvas

52x37

72

Jesus Moroles

Vanishing Edge Round (pair)

1987

Vermont granite

33x13x7

73

David Cargill

Family

1954

mahogany

120x48x12

74

James Surls

Moving Through the Diamond House

1992

hickory, oak, & steel

25x27x11

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Richard Stout Recent Paintings

1. Richard Stout, A Celebration, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 40x30 inches.

2. Richard Stout, A Party, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30x22 inches.

3. Richard Stout, A Pause, acrylic on canvas, 36x48 inches.

4. Richard Stout, Evening on the Coast, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 40x60 inches.

5. Richard Stout, Far From Home #1, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches.

6. Richard Stout, Far From Home #2, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 36x48 inches.

7. Richard Stout, Morning on the Coast, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches.

8. Richard Stout, Ready for Passage, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 36x48 inches.

9. Richard Stout, Untitled- Broad Acres, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches.

10. Richard Stout, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches.

11. Richard Stout, The Planting, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 38x30 inches.

12. Richard Stout, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 40x30 inches.

13. Richard Stout, Twilight, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 36x60 inches.

14. Richard Stout, Texas City, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches.

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Richard Stout Early Paintings

15. Richard Stout, Bright Storm, 1956, pastel, 25x38 inches.

16. Richard Stout, Almafi, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 24x30 inches.

17. Richard Stout, Evening, 1963, oil on canvas, 15.75x19.75 inches.

18. Richard Stout, Fourth Day, 1963, oil on canvas, 33.5x48 inches.

19. Richard Stout, Future, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 24x36 inches.

20. Richard Stout, Green Dome , 1962, oil on canvas, 20x28 inches.

21. Richard Stout, Mexico (Guanajuato), 1963, oil on canvas, 24x30 inches.

22. Richard Stout, Untitled, 1961-62 acrylic on canvas, 48x38 inches.

23. Richard Stout, Untitled , 1972, acrylic on canvas, 40x50 inches.

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

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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 1987[Symbol]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

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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, 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

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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 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,

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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 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

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(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, 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)

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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

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1988 Texas Art: An Exhibition selected from the Menil Collection, 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 19001965, 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)

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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 MidCentury Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 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

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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 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,

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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 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas University of Houston, Texas University of Texas at Austin, Texas Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas

Richard Stout, pictured in his studio.

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Ibsen Espada

24. Ibsen Espada , Blue Lizard, 1987, mixed media on paper, 37x72.5 inches.

25. Ibsen Espada , Spartacus, 2011, mixed media on paper canvas, 72x56 inches.

26. Ibsen Espada , Treasure Hunt, 1988, mixed media on paper on canvas, 30.5x55 inches.

27. Ibsen Espada , Turquoise Memories, 2016, mixed media on rice paper, 26x34.5 inches.

28. Ibsen Espada , Untitled, 1986, oil on paper, 35.5x72 inches.

29. Ibsen Espada , Untitled (Black/Yellow Weaving), 2017, mixed media on rice paper, 26.75x35 inches.

30. Ibsen Espada , Untitled (Pink Weaving), 2017, mixed media on rice paper, 27x39 inches.

31. Ibsen Espada , Victory, 2011, mixed media on paper on canvas, 54.5x39 inches.

32. Ibsen Espada , Alhambra, 2017, painting on okawara rice paper collage, 13.25x16.5 inches.

33. Ibsen Espada , Furgencio, 2017, painting on okawara rice paper collage, 22x26 inches.

IBSEN ESPADA Ibsen Espada was born in Queens, New York in 1952. He grew up in Puerto Rico and studied under Cuban muralist, Ronaldo Lopez Dirube. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan in 1975. After relocating to Houston, he continued art studies at the Glassell School of Art under Dorothy Hood. Espada worked with Hood as her studio assistant and she encouraged him to develop his first portfolio of work. 1977 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. 1995 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Resides in Houston, Texas Selected Exhibitions • • • • • • • • • • • • •

1971 I.B.E.C. Invitational Show, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1972 University of Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1973 Annual Show, Institute of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1974 Annual Show, Art Students League, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1975 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1976 Invitational Show, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 1977 Area Show, Houston Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas 1978 Solo, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas 1978, 1979 Robert Molina Gallery, Houston, Texas 1979 Winter Invitational, Loft-on-the-Strand, Galveston, Texas 1980 Solo, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas 1981 Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Texas 1982 Ibsen Espada: Paintings, North Harris County College,

Houston, Texas • 1983 A Salute to Houston Artists, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas • 1983 Solo, In Search of a Mark, Sally Reynolds Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1983 Erotic Show, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, Texas • 1983 Recent Works by Suzy Paul and Ibsen Espada, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, Texas • 1984 City Walls, Square One Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1984 Houston Contemporary Art in Public Places, Hyatt Regency Houston, Texas • 1984 1984 Show, Houston Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Two Houston Center, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue) • 1986 Paper, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1987 Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado • 1987-89 Hispanic Art in the United States: 30 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (traveled to: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Lowell Art Museum, University of Miami; Museum of New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) • 1989 Black and White, AIR Gallery, Austin, Texas • 1990 Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1990 Solo, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas • 1990 Solo, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas • 1991 Texas Printmakers, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

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1992 Drawings on Carborundum, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas 1993 A Matter of Time-Dave Folkman: Time Pieces, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas 1995 Texas Art for Russia, Art League of Houston, Texas, traveled to Russia 1996 Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 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 (catalogue) 2004 Manifesto Abstracto, Plus Gallery, Boulder, Colorado 2007 Practice Makes Perfect: Repetition as a Form of Scholarship among Glassell Studio School Alumni, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2008 Gallery M2, Houston, Texas 2010 Houston Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2011 Solo, Reformulaciones, New Gallery, Houston, Texas 2012 Solo, Ibsen Espada 1985 to 2000, New Gallery, Houston Texas 2013 Primitive or Is It?, Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Katy, Texas (catalogue) 2013 William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Abstract Pulse: Ibsen Espada, Mike Hollis, Zoya Tommy Contemporary, Houston, Texas 2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) 2016 Abstract Dialogue: The Artful Interactions of Ibsen Espada, Dick Wray and Dorothy Hood, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

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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, Texas Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Jack Boynton

34. Jack Boynton , Event in Green, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 79.5x68 inches.

35. Jack Boynton , Stars and Stripes, 1963, graphite on paper, 10x10 inches.

36. Jack Boynton , Sunstone, 1957, mixed media on canvas, 44x77 inches.

37. Jack Boynton , The Blind Beast, 1959, oil on canvas, 70x80 inches.

38. Jack Boynton , Untitled, 1963, graphite on paper, 10x10 inches

39. Jack Boynton , Untitled, 1982, mixed media on canvas on board, 8x7.75 inches

40. Jack Boynton ,Untitled, 1985, watercolor and pencil on paper, 8x8 inches

JAMES WESLEY (JACK) BOYNTON (1928–2010) Jack Boynton was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned his bachelor and master of fine arts degrees from Texas Christian University and began exhibiting his paintings in 1950. Boynton was instrumental in creating the studio arts program at the University of St. Thomas; he joined the faculty in 1969 and served as professor until 1985. He was well-respected by his colleagues, one of whom mentioned that he could look at a piece of paper and see a dozen possibilities.

Selected Prizes, Awards • Texas Watercolor Society: Prize 1951,1953, 1954, 1955 • 1951 • 1953 Cash Prize, Cloud Strata, watercolor • Texas Fine Arts Association: Prize 1952, 1957 • 1952 Prize • 1957 Prize, • Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1953; Cash Prize 1964 • 1953 Purchase Prize, Limestone Edge, oil • 1964 Cash Prize, How the West was Won, oil • Houston Annual: Purchase Prize (2 works) 1955 (December) • 1955 (December) Purchase Prize, Thunderstorm: 1955, oil and Purchase Prize, Red Gate, casein • D. D. Feldman: Purchase Prize 1958; First Cash Prize 1956, Prize 1959 • 1956 First Cash Prize, Downtown and Suburban, ____ • 1958 First Purchase Prize, Outpost, oil/masonite, 49x84.5 • 1959 Prize, • Fort Worth Local: Prize 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955 • 1951 Prize • 1952 Prize, • 1954 Prize • 1955 Prize

• Denver Art Museum: Purchase Prize 1958; Honorable Mention 1952, 1954 • 1952 Honorable Mention • 1954 Honorable Mention • 1958 Purchase Prize, Room With a View, • Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1957 Butler Institute of American Art; Prize 1962 San Francisco Annual, 1968 Beaumont Art Museum, Oklahoma City Art Center; Honorable Mention 1954 New Orleans Annual, 1959 Art:USA:1959 • 1954 Honorable Mention, New Orleans Annual • 1957 3rd Purchase Prize, Sun Trap, Butler Institute of American Art • 1959 Honorable Mention, Omen, Art:USA:1959 • 1962 1st Prize, San Francisco Annual • 1968 Prize, Beaumont Art Museum • 1968 Prize,, Oklahoma City Art Center Selected Exhibitions • 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1950-53 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (prize 1951, 1952) • 1951 Texas Watercolor Society 2nd Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (prize) • 1951 13th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1951-1952, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas • 1951-52, 1954, 1958, 1967 New Orleans Annual, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana (honorable mention 1954) • 1951-52, 1954, 1957 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (prize 1952, 1957)

• 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1952 Texas Wildcat Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California ?Knoedler, NY per Fresh Paint??

• 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1952 Texas Watercolor Society 3rd Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1952, 1954-56, 1958, 1963 Western Annual, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (honorable mention 1952, 1954; purchase prize 1958) • 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 (purchase prize) • 1953 Texas Watercolor Society 4th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, selection circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Texas A&M University, College Station; Texas A&I College, Kingsville; Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas (cash prize) • 1953, 1954, 1957, 1965 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado • 1954 Paintings and Drawings by John Biggers and James Boynton, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1954 Younger American Painters, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York • 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 • 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)

• 1954 Texas Watercolor Society 5th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (prize) • 1954-55 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (prize 1954, 1955) • 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1955 Texas Watercolor Society 6th Annual Exhibition, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (prize) • 1955 Pittsburg International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania • 1955 James W. Boynton, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) • 1955 31st Annual Exhibition of Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (purchase prizes, 2 works) • 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Art Center of Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas • 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 (Downtown and Suburban, 1st cash prize; Coastal Lights) 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 (Early Morning Mountain) 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 (Outpost, purchase prize) checklist • 1959 D. D. Feldman Competitive Award Exhibit: The Contemporary Work of 82 Texas Artists, traveled (Untitled) 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 • 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater • 1956 Recent Drawings USA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • 1956 Solo, La Galeria Escondido, Taos, New Mexico • 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue) • 1957 Pacemakers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue, text by Jermayne MacAgy) • 1957-58 62nd-63rd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois • 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue) • 1957 Young America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York • 1957 Recent Contemporary Acquisitions—Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1957 Juried Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (purchase prize) • 1957 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina • 1957 Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1957-58 17 Contemporary American Painters, American Pavilion, World’s Fair, Brussels, traveled to: London, New York • 1957–60 32nd-35th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 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 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York • 1958 American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia • 1958 Fresh Paint—1958, A Selective Survey of Recent Western Painting, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; de Young Museum, San Francisco, California (catalogue) • 1958 The Premiere Paris Exhibition, Galerie du Colisee, Paris, France (catalogue) • 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 • 1958, 1959 Solos, Barone Gallery, New York, New York • 1959 26th Biennial of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC • 1959 Out of the Ordinary, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas • 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) • 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas ?Art in Texas by Texans, DMCT, Galerie du Colisee, Paris and Copenhagen??

• 1959 James (Jack) Boynton Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1959 Art:USA:1959, Coliseum, New York, New York (honorable mention) • 1959 9th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1959–62 Solos, Balles Gallery, San Francisco, California • 1961 Solo, Staempfli Gallery, New York, New York • 1962 American Paintings from Houston Collections,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1962 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California • 1962 Recent Painting: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • 1962 Young Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1962 San Francisco Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California (1st prize) • 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 Solo, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1964 26th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1964-1965, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Western College, El Paso; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize) • 1966 Solo, David Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1966 Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1966, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1967-68 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York • 1968 Annual, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas (prize) • 1968 The Sphere of Art in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Commission, Texas Pavilion, HemisFair ’68, San Antonio, Texas • 1968 10th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Nicholson Memorial Library, Junior Service League of Longview, Texas • 1968 Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (prize) • 1969 Ten Tamarind Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California • 1969 Solo, Atelier Chapman Gallery, Dallas, Texas • 1969 18th Exhibition of Southwestern Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas

• 1969 Solo, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas • 1969 Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California • 1970 Solo, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1971 Solo, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas • 1971 Tamarind: A Renaissance of Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, circulating exhibit • 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) • 1972 19th Exhibition of Southwestern Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas • 1972 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas • 1973 Contemporary American Art, Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York • 1973 Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Charles D. and Dorothy Clark, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1974 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1976 International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto • 1976–86 Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (numerous regular and solo exhibitions) • 1977 Santa Fe Selects, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1977 The Texas Thirty, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas • 1977 Ten From Houston, Art Center of Waco, Texas • 1977 Solo, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana • 1978 Art and the Alphabet, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1978 Cowboys, Indians, and Settlers, Art Center of Waco, Texas • 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art

Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue) • 1979 Solo, University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Texas • 1979 Doors: Houston Artists, Alley Theatre, Houston Festival, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1979 Five Artists from Texas, George Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, California • 1979 FIRE! Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1979 Meanwhile . . . American Works, 1947-1961, Menil Collection, Rice University Museum, Houston, Texas • 1979 Wood in Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1980 Contemporary Drawings and Watercolors, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York • 1980 Cowboys and Indians—The Western Experience, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado • 1980 Invitational ’80, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas • 1980 Recapitulation, 1928-1960, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1980–81 Jack Boynton Retro / Spectrum, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas, 1981 traveled to: Tyler Museum of Art, Art Center of Waco, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, and Beaumont Art Museum (catalogue) • 1981 Moody Gallery Exhibition at Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico • 1981 Celebration ’81—The Road Show, Assistance League of Houston, Two Houston Center, Houston, Texas • 1981 Two Views of Houston, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas • 1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue) • 1982 Alumni Exhibition, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

• 1982 Hearts and Flowers, Art Center of Waco, Texas • 1982 A Peaceable Kingdom: Animals in Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1982 Solo, Anderson Art Ranch, Aspen, Colorado • 1982 In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948-1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1982 Recreating the World, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas • 1982 Solo, Cowtown Re-Entry, Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas • 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue) • 1983 A Salute to Houston Artists, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas • 1983 A Partial Look: Selected Works from the Corporate Art Collection of Atlantic Richfield Company, Dallas, Texas, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) • 1983 Bluebonnets and Other Flora, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas • 1983 4th Texas Sculpture Symposium, Soho Gallery, Austin, Texas • 1983 Solo, Extended Vacation Pictures, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1983 Nine Realities, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas • 1984 Word Images, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas • 1984 Gateway Gallery Experience, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue) • 1985 The New Nude, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas

• 1985 Drawings: Coast to Coast, Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas • 1985-86 Texas Visions – A Celebration of Texas Artists, organized by the Art League of Houston, Museum of Art of the American West, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Live Oak Art Club, Columbus; Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene; Lufkin Historical and Creative Art Center, Lufkin; Rockport Art Center, Rockport; McAllen International Museum, McAllen; Fort Bend County Museum, Richmond, Texas (catalogue) • 1986 The Texas Landscape 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (19451955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas • 1986 Houston Printmakers, Goethe Institute, Houston German Cultural Center, Houston, Texas • 1986 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Art Center of Waco, Texas • 1986 Sesqui-Tex Series, William Campbell Gallery (formerly Gallery One), Fort Worth, Texas • 1986 Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston 1969-1986, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1988 One + One: Collaborations by Artists and Writers, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • 1988 Texas Art: An Exhibition selected from the Menil Collection, 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 Jack Boynton: Homecoming ’89, A Thumbnail Retrospective, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) • 1993 Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943-1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1995 Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

• 1999 Jack Boynton and Bob Fowler, Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas • 1999 An Exhibition of Works by Jack Boynton, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas • 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas • 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas • 2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (19351965), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (catalogue) • 2007 Jack Boynton and Richard Stout: Early Works in Houston, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2008 The Texas Aesthetic: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2009 Painting West Texas: 35 Artists/100 Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 2009 Back to the Future: Elements of “Modern” in MidCentury Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2009 Six Decades of Jack Boynton, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2009 A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 2010 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 • 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 • 2013 Restless Heart: The Collectors’ Quest to Find Texas in Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas • 2013 Rhythms of Modernism, 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 • 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 The Reductive Landscape: Paintings & Drawings by Jack Boynton and McKie Trotter, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas • 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 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945-1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) Selected Public Collections • •

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

• Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado • Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas • Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado • Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York • La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California • Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas • Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York • Museum of New Orleans, Louisiana • Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, California • Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California • University of California at Los Angeles, California • University of Texas at Austin, Texas • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York • Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Dorothy Hood

41. Dorothy Hood, Flying Aztec, 1987, oil on canvas, 70x60 inches

42. Dorothy Hood , Sea Exodus, 1977, oil on canvas, 70x60 inches

DOROTHY HOOD (1919–2000) Born in Bryan, Texas, Dorothy Hood studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Art Students League in New York. She then went to Mexico to further develop her skills and stayed for an extended length of time, traveling extensively through Central and South America. When she returned to Texas, she settled in Houston and was a prominent instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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1919 Born in Bryan, Texas 1937–40 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 1940 Art Students League, New York, New York 1941–61 Lived in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico 1962–76 Instructor, Museum School (now Glassell School), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1983 Mayor’s Award, Outstanding Contribution to the Visual Arts, Houston, Texas 1984 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston, Texas 1988 Outstanding Achievement in Visual Arts, Women’s National Caucus for Art 1990 Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 2000 Died in Houston, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards 1940 Honorable Mention, Catherine George, oil, Houston Annual 1973 Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters Selected Exhibitions 1940 16th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (honorable mention) 1943 Gama Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

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1946 Magic Realism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York 1950 Solo, Willard Gallery, New York, New York 1955 First Confrontation of International Experimental Art, Mexico City, Mexico 1955 Solo, Proteo Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico 1956 Golden Years of American Drawing: 1905–1956, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue) 1958 Four Younger Americans, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 1958 Young American Printmakers, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 1958 Solo, Duveen-Graham Gallery, New York, New York 1959 Figures and Faces, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, traveling 1960 Genova Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico 1961 Fifty Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1961 Solo, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1961 Young Collections 1961, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1962 U.S. Artists in Latin America, Pan American Union, Washington, DC 1962 (and continuing) Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas 1962 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1963 Exhibition by Faculty of the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1963 Solo, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1963 13th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1965 Drawings from Seventeen States, Drawing Society Regional Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1965 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1965 An Exhibition of 24 Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Museum of Fine Arts, Capitol National Bank, Houston,

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1975 Modern Painting: 1900 to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1975 Solo, Michener Galleries, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1976 American Artists ’76: A Celebration, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas 1976 Solo, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1976 New Works in Clay by Painters and Sculptors, Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; traveled to Edmonton Museum, Alberta, Canada (catalogue) 1977 Der Sammler Theodor Ahrenberg und Atelier in Chexbres Marz, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, West Germany (catalogue) 1978 Paintings, Drawings by Dorothy Hood, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (catalogue) 1978, 1979 Solos, Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, New York 1979 Women from Nostalgia to Now, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York 1979 FIRE! Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1981[Symbol]82 A Sense of Spirit, Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, New Mexico and Lawndale Annex, Houston, Texas 1982 Modern Masters: Women of the First Generation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue) 1982 The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1982 In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948[Symbol]1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1983 New Art From a New City: Houston, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, traveled to: Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna;

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Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany (catalogue)• 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, • • Amarillo, Texas (catalogue) 1985 Message 1985, The Light Gallery, New York, New York • 1985 The Comet Show, Light Gallery, New York and Bard College, Annandale, New York 1985 American Women in Art: Works on Paper, U.N. Focus • International Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma • Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue) 1985 Works on Paper: Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine• Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue: same as 1983 New Art from a • New City: Houston, traveled in Austria and Germany) 1985 Invitational, Centre International D’Art Contemporain, • Paris, France 1985 Private Collections, Public Treasures, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas 1986 Dorothy Hood, Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington, • DC (catalogue) 1987 The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas • 1987 20 Centuries of Work on Stone: Lithographs, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas 1988 Dorothy Hood’s Collages: Connecting Change, Wallace • Wentworth Gallery, Washington, DC (catalogue) 1989 Texas Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, • Washington, DC and Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas • 1990 Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1990 Simultaneous Solos in Houston, Texas: Lawndale Art • Center, MD Modern, Transco Tower

1993 Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943[Symbol]1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1995 Images from Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1995 Texas Myths and Realities, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1996 Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1998–99 Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, traveled to: Museum of the Southwest, Midland; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Austin Museum of Art, Austin; Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls (catalogue) 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950[Symbol]1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas 2006–07 Of This Vast State: Women Artists of Texas, 1900–1960, Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas 2007 Timeless: A Retrospective of Selected Women Artists of Texas, 1940 to Present, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas; William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas; Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas 2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935[Symbol]1965), Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (catalogue) 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 A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938[Symbol]2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009[Symbol]10 Texas Art Seen, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas

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2010 Pioneering Women: Three Modernists in Houston— Dorothy Hood, Leila McConnell, Stella Sullivan, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Texas Collages: A Tribute to Kurt Schwitters, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, 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 Texas Expressionism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Rhythms of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Summer Encore Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas 2014 A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935[Symbol]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

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Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas Baylor University, Waco, Texas Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rice University, Houston, Texas San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California University of Texas at Austin, Texas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Leila McConnell

43. Leila McConnell , Green Scape with White Ring, 1980, oil on canvas, 48x36 inches.

44. Leila McConnell , Mysterious Ball, 1980, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.

45. Leila McConnell , Rolling Hills, 1988, oil on canvas, 24x36 inches.

46. Leila McConnell , The Black Band, 2015, oil on canvas, 48x36 inches.

47. Leila McConnell , Untitled (Browns), 1986, oil on canvas, 10x8 inches.

LEILA MCCONNELL (b. 1927) Leila McConnell was born in Los Angeles, California. Her family moved to Houston when she was six and, after graduating from high school, she enrolled at Rice Institute (now Rice University). At the time, Rice had no department of architecture but McConnell sought inspiration from iconic professor, James Chillman.

According to McConnell, Chillman had the greatest influence on her sense of design, proportion, and the ability to actually see her art. Studying freehand drawing, design, watercolor, art, and architectural history under Chillman, McConnell excelled. After earning her bachelor of arts degree from Rice, she continued her art studies at the Museum School (now Glassell School) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

became more symmetrical. McConnell continues to paint in her unique style and develop her oeuvre of “sky” pieces.

Selected Prizes, Awards • Houston Annual: Materials Prize 1954 • 1954 Materials Prize, Stella, oil Selected Exhibitions • • •

McConnell had impeccable academic training and her early • paintings, both oil and pastel, were very realistic. The majority of her subject matter was either still life, figure studies, or portraits.

• In the summer of 1949, she attended the San Francisco School of Fine Arts and was fortunate to study under Mark Rothko. His vision and innovative instruction marked McConnell’s shift away from the • realism that had previously dominated her works. After her classes with Rothki, she began to paint more abstract pieces, creating an imaginary girl in watercolor.

• Realizing that she had a vivid imagination, McConnell embarked on a trip to Europe in 1960. The stucco buildings of Italy greatly • impacted her vision and caused a change in her paintings. Her • colors became soft and blended, often misty and portraying a • sun or moon, causing the artist to deem many of her works “sky paintings.”

In 1976, McConnell began creating paper collages, a diversion from her painted works. Though small, her collages impacted the way McConnell created her paintings—her edges became harder, mixed with the mistiness of her skies and her compositions

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1949–51 24th–26th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1951 13th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1951–1952, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1952–55 27th–30th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (prize 1954) 1955 31st Annual Exhibition of Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1957–60 32nd–35th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 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 D. D. Feldman Competitive Award Exhibit: The Contemporary Work of 88 Texas Artists, traveled; 1958 Jul–Aug at McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Orange Sun) checklist DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas Leslie Muth Gallery, Houston, Texas 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959–1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1961 23rd Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1961–1962, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte

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Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas 1962–63 Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1964 26th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1964–1965, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Western College, El Paso; University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1986 Leila McConnell: Collage to Canvas—New Works of Paper & Paintings, Plain Folk Gallery, Houston, Texas 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950[Symbol]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, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas 2006–07 Of This Vast State: Women Artists of Texas , 1900– 1960, Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas 2007 Timeless: A Retrospective of Selected Women Artists of Texas, 1940 to Present, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, Texas; William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas; Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas 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 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Pioneering Women: Three Modernists in Houston— Dorothy Hood, Leila McConnell, Stella Sullivan, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas

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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 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 2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas 2014 A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935[Symbol]1965, One Allen Center, Lobby Gallery, 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 Midcentury Montage: Works by Three Houston Modernists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2016 Texas Originals: Six Bayou City Expressionists, William Reaves/Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2016 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945[Symbol]1965, Heritage Society Museum,

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HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Charles Schorre

48. Charles Schorre , Dawn Dance, 1986, oil on canvas, 66x66 inches.

49. Charles Schorre , Terminal, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 84x8 inches.

50. Charles Schorre , Pariscape 2, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 60x60 inches.

51. Charles Schorre , Ultramerge 3, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 36x96 inches.

52. Charles Schorre , Aqua Spring, 1973, acrylic on canvas, 61x84 inches.

53. Charles Schorre , God'shadowaltzing, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 36x48 inches.

54. Charles Schorre , Sandsignal, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 48x48 inches.

55. Charles Schorre , Terminal, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 84x8 inches.

56. Charles Schorre , Untitled, 1987, clay plate sculpture, 14x14x2.5 inches.

57. Charles Schorre , Untitled, 1987, clay plate sculpture, 14x14x2.5 inches.

58. Charles Schorre , God's Glove Walking, collage and acrylic on canvas, 48x36 inches.

CHARLES SCHORRE (1925–1996)

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1946 Permanent U. S. Marine Corps Exhibition, Washington, DC 1947 Caller-Times National Exhibition, Corpus Christi, Texas 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947–1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1948 1st Southwestern Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1948 First Central States Graphic Arts Annual, Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949–1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (honorable mention) 1950 25th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1959 Solo, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1964 Charles Schorre: Cruciforms, Rice University, Houston, Texas 1965 Charles Schorre, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 1965 Houston Area Annual Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (prize) 1966–83 DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1966 Houston Exhibition ’66, Exxon Building, Houston, Texas

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1968 10th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Nicholson Memorial Library, Junior Service League of Longview, Texas 1969 Southwestern States Watercolor 1st Annual Exhibition (1st prize) 1969 Solo, Photographs, Latent Image Gallery, Houston, Texas 1970 American Watercolor Society 103rd Annual Exhibition, New York, New York (Windsor-Newton Award) 1971 Fourteenth Annual Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 1972 Artists Against the War, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, New York, traveling exhibit 1973 Private Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1974 Retrospective, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1974 Solo, Drawings, Collages & Paintings, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas 1975 20th Exhibition of Southwestern Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1975 Artists Make Toys, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 1976 Houston Area Annual, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (prize) 1977 Conversations with Artists, University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Texas 1977 Charles Schorre/Retrospective, Historical Museum, Cuero, Texas 1977 Portraits: The Mental Picture, AIGA, New York, New York, traveling exhibition: United States, Canada 1977 International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough, England 1978 Charles Schorre: Recent Works, Rudder Exhibit Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (catalogue) 1978 Charles Schorre, David B. Findlay Gallery, New York, New York 1978 Prints from Little Egypt Enterprises, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

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1978 Works on Paper: Southwest 1978, Dallas Museum of • Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated: Warehouse Living Arts Center, Corsicana; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New • Mexico; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo; Art Center of Waco; Witte Museum, San • Antonio; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (catalogue) • 1979 Solo, Visions from Saudi Arabia, France, Ireland, and the Texas Hill Country, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1979 Works on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas 1979 Solo, Charles Schorre: Recent Works, Texas A&M • University, College Station, Texas • 1979 American Drawings II, Virginia Museum of Art, Portsmouth, Virginia • 1979 Doors: Houston Artists, Alley Theatre, Houston Festival, Houston, Texas (catalogue) • 1979 51 Drawings, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, • traveling 1979 Miniature Show, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, • Texas • 1979 Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1979 Pictures in “Picture” Magazine, Cityscape Photo Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1979 Some Houston Photographers, Museum School, Museum • of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1980 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New • Orleans, Louisiana 1980 Charles Schorre/Retrospective, Nave Museum, Victoria, • Texas 1980 Solo, Wildine Galleries, Albuquerque, New Mexico • 1980 Houston Area Exhibition: Recapitulation 1928[Symbol]1960, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas • (catalogue) • 1981 Charles Schorre: Pages from Books Unpublished, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; CEPA Gallery, • Buffalo, New York •

1981 Invitational ’81, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas 1981 Impressions of Houston, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston/Downtown, Houston, Texas 1981 Masks, Little Egypt Enterprises, Houston, Texas 1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue) 1982 Recent Purchases, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1982 Premier Event Group Show, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas 1982 Flowers and Gardens in American Painting, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1982 Solo, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas 1982 The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1982 Color, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1982 Texas on Paper, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, traveled to: University of Colorado, Boulder; Abilene Christian University, Texas; Tyler Museum of Art, Texas; Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York; University of Arizona, Tucson; Amarillo Art Center, Texas (catalogue) 1983 A Salute to Houston Artists, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas 1983 The Contemporaries, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1983 Solo, Paintings and Drawings, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1983 Suzanne Paul, Charles Schorre, Casey Williams, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas 1984 Texas Visions, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas 1984 Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Texas 1984–95 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts,

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1996 Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1997 Charles Schorre, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950[Symbol]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, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas 2008 Founders of Houston Art: Thirty Artists Who Led the Way, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Painting West Texas: 35 Artists/100 Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2009 Back to the Future: Elements of “Modern” in Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938[Symbol]2008, 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 2011 Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 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 Rhythms of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

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American Artists Group, New York, New York American Bank, Houston, Texas Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Citicorrp, Inc., New York, New York Exxon, New York, New York First Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, Texas Transco, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Dick Wray

59. Dick Wray , Untitled, oil on canvas, 68x58 inches.

60. Dick Wray , No Good Black Magic, 1962, mixed media, 16.25x20.25 inches.

61. Dick Wray , Untitled 1009, 2002, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.

62. Dick Wray , Untitled 1023, oil on canvas, 48x36 inches.

63. Dick Wray , Untitled 1120, photo-litho collage & oil on canvas, 76x53 inches.

64. Dick Wray , Untitled 1136 (Blue & Green), oil on canvas, 40x30 inches.

65. Dick Wray , Untitled 1766,1998, oil on canvas, 18x24 inches.

66. Dick Wray , Untitled, oil on canvas, 68x58 inches.

DICK WRAY (1933–2011) Born in Houston, Texas, Dick Wray took art lessons at the Museum School in his early teens. Following his service in the U.S. Army, Wray studied at the University of Houston’s School of Architecture and at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany. The foundation of his career as a painter was established during the time he spent in Europe. Inspired by the art he saw for the first time in Europe, Wray returned to Houston at age 26 knowing for certain that he wanted to be an artist, not an architect.

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1966 Dick Wray, New Works, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 1968 The Sphere of Art in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Commission, Texas Pavilion, Hemisfair ‘68, San Antonio, Texas 1969 Tamarind Homage to Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (catalogue) 1970 Solo, Dick Wray—Recent Paintings and Graphics, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1970 Dick Wray Paintings, Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 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) 1971 Other Coasts Exhibition, 71, California State University, Long Beach, California (catalogue) 1973 Houston Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1974 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1975 Dick Wray, Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1976 The Dog Show, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1976 The Texas 20 Best, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas 1976, 1977 Solos, Pelham-Von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, Texas 1977 Texas Today: Three Exhibitions—Dick Wray Selected Paintings, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas 1977 Born in Texas/The Best of Texas, Sakowitz, Houston, Texas 1977 Solo, Lerner-Heller, New York, New York 1978 Solo, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas 1978 A Glimpse of Houston, Works on Paper by Nine Texas Artists, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (catalogue)

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1978 What’s Up in Texas, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1978 Art of Texas, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Illinois 1978 The Spirit of Texas, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue) 1979 Larger Canvas Two: Art for Billboards, commissioned by RepublicBank, Houston, Texas 1979 Solo, Roberto Molina Gallery, Houston, Texas 1979 FIRE!, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1979 Solo, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas 1980 Response, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (catalogue) 1980, 1981 Annual Faculty Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1981 Moody Gallery Exhibition at Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, traveled to Pat Ryan Gallery, Bryan, Texas 1981 Solo, Drawings, Patrick Ryan Gallery, Bryan, Texas 1981 Celebration ’81—The Road Show, Assistance League of Houston, Two Houston Center, Houston, Texas 1981 Two Views of Houston, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas 1981 Solo, Painting and Drawings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue) 1982 In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948[Symbol]1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1983 A Salute to Houston Artists, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas 1983 Nine Realities, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

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1983 New Art From a New City: Houston, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, traveled to: Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany (catalogue) 1984 Dick Wray: Monotypes, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1984 Gateway Gallery Experience, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1984 1984 Show, Houston Women’s Caucus for Art, Two Houston Center, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1984 Houston Contemporary Art in Public Places, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Texas 1985 Artists Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1985 Dick Wray Paintings, 1975[Symbol]1985, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas 1985 Sam Scott/Dick Wray Paintings, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas 1985 Then, Now. . .And Then, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Texas 1985 The New Nude, Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue) 1985 Solo, Paintings and Monotypes, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas 1985 American Abstraction: Four Currents, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, New York (catalogue) 1985 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1985 Works on Paper: Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue: same as 1983 New Art from a New City: Houston, traveled to Austria and Germany) 1986 Dick Wray Monoprints 1986[Symbol]90, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas 1986 Collaborators: Artists Working Together in Houston

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1969–1986, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1986 Third Western States Exhibition, Western States Art Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, traveled to: New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Louisiana; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Yellowstone Fine Art Center, Billings, Montana; Palm Springs Desert Museum, California; San Jose Museum of Art, California (catalogue) 1986 Solo, New Paintings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1987 Third Coast Review, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, traveled (catalogue) 1987 Abstract Sensibilities Now: A Selection from the Houston Area, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas 1987 Solo, Paintings, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas 1987 Moody Gallery Exhibition of Works on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas 1987 Line and Form: Contemporary Texas Figurative Drawing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 1988 Texas Art: An Exhibition selected from the Menil Collection, 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) 1988 Third Annual Invitational Plate Show, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas 1988 Selected Prints—Shark’s Incorporated, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado 1988 Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, Texas 1989 The Artist’s Eye: Fourteen Collections, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas 1989 Solo, Monotypes, Cathleen Gallander/Susan Lang, New York, New York 1989 Looking at Color, Transco Gallery, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas

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1989 Solo, Recent Paintings, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas 1989 Monotypes of 4 Artists, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1989 Drawing Conclusions, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 1989 Just Paint, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 1990 Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1990 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1990 Organic Abstractions, Rudder Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1990 Printmaking in Texas: The 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas 1991 One Line: Drawings by Texas Artists, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas 1991 Solo, Recent Paintings, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1991[Symbol]92 Island Inspired, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, traveled to: Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches; Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1992 Recent Prints, Shark’s Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado 1992 Singular and Plural, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1992 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Art Center of Waco, Texas 1992 Texas Art Celebration ’92, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas 1992 New Texas Art, Cheney Coles Museum, Spillane, Washington; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho 1993 Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943–1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1993 Solo, Xerography and Collages, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1993 Fur, Fins, Feathers, and More, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas 1994 Dick Wray: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas 1994 Landscape without Figures, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

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1994 Solo, Exhibition 50, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 1994 Stories, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1995 Dick Wray: Recent Work, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1995 Convergence, Davis/McClain Gallery, Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas 1996 Manif Seoul ’96, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 1996 The Bird Show, West End Gallery, Houston, Texas 1996 Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 1996 Dick Wray Paintings, Commander’s Point Art Space Lake Travis, Austin, Texas 1996 32 Texas Artists, University of Texas Health Science Center, Gallery, Houston, Texas 1996 New Works: Paintings and Sculpture, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, Florida 1996 Cerling Etching Studio: The First Five Years 1990-1995, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas 1997 AMST Collects in the Modernist Era: 1972-1997, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 1997 Dick Wray: First New York Exhibition, Lerner Heller Gallery, New York, New York 1997 Committed to Abstraction: Ten in Texas, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas 1997 Boom, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, North Miami, Florida 1997 ArtView ’97, Art Center of Waco, Texas 1997 Establishment and Revelation, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) 1998 Dick Wray Prints, Lesikar Gallery, Houston, Texas 1998 Solo, Paint as Image, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, North Miami, Florida 1998 Works on Paper, State Thomas Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1999 Dick Wray: Installation, ArtScan, Gallery, Houston, Texas 1999 International and American Contemporary Fine Art, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, North Miami, Florida

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2000 Dick Wray: Texas Artist of the Year 2000, Paintings 19602000, Art League of Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2001 Dick Wray: 236 Paintings, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas 2002 Dick Wray, Texas Christian University, Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas 2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas 2005 Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2006 Papiros Amorosos, Museo Regional de Queretaro, Oro, Mexico 2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, 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) 2008 Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas 2008 Founders of Houston Art: Thirty Artists Who Led the Way, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2009 Dick Wray: Untitled, HCG Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2010 Dick Wray: Black & White, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Breakthrough: Sixty Years of Texas Abstraction, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2012 Dick Wray: Explosive Color/Dynamic Paint, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2012 Texas Expressionism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2013 Rhythms of Modernism, 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 2014 A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935-1965, One Allen Center, Lobby Gallery,

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Houston, Texas 2014 Lone Star Masters of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2015 Dick Wray: Uncompromising Vision, William Reaves Fine Arts, 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 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston 1945-1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) 2016 Abstract Dialogue: The Artful Interactions of Ibsen Espada, Dick Wray and Dorothy Hood, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

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Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

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HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY John Alexander

67. John Alexander, Stick Wicomb's Backyard, 1987, oil on canvas, 77x83 inches.

John Alexander

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1945 Born: in Beaumont, TX 1968 B.F.A. from Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 1970 M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1981 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow 1984 Solomon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Lives and works in New York City and Amagansett, NY

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2004 "John Alexander", J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL (solo) "John Alexander", Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo) 2003 Dishman Gallery of Art, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX "JA: 35 Years of Works on Paper", Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (solo) "JA Print Retrospective", School of Art Gallery, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA (solo) The Ralls Collection, Washington DC 2002 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Dallas, TX Bendley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2001 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA 1999 "New Monoprints", Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC 1998 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA 1997 Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX 1996 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX 1994 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX 1993 Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Galeria Alfred Wild, Bogota, Colombia Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 1991 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX 1990 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

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1989 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX 1988 The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX) Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Herve Odermatt, Paris, France 1987 Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK 1986 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL F.I.A.C., Grand-Palais, Paris, France Galerie Herve Odermatt, Paris, France 1984 "New Narrative Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art", New York, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ "American Drawings 1984: from A-Z", Sutton Gallery, New York, NY "New Landscape Painting", (organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy "John Alexander, Sam Gummelt, Philip Renteria, Gael Stack, Janie C.", Lee Gallery, Houston, TX "Personal Views", Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 "Sacred Artifacts and Objects of Devotion", Alternative Museum, New York, NY "A Preview", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY "New Work, New York", Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ "Invitational Exhibition", Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY 1982 "War Games", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL "Atomic Salon", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY "Recent Acquisitions", The Corcoran Gallery of Art,

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Washington, DC 1981 "Southern Monumental Exhibition", University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN "The Image of House in Contemporary Art", Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX "New York Gallery Showcase", Oklahoma Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK 1980 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1979 "Made in Texas", University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX "On The Right Bank of the Red River", The Root Art Center, Hamilton, NY "Fire", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX "On Paper", Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA "Group Exhibition", Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY "Guest Artists’ Exhibition", Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD 1978 "Art of Texas", Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL "Four Houston Artists", University Art Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL "The Art of Texas", John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI "Landscape, Cityscape: Survey of Urban and Rural Lands in the 70s", Brainerd Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1977 "Six Painters of the Southwest", Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK "Drawing Exhibition", Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "19th Annual Eight State Exhibition", Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK "1977 Artists Biennial", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA "The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Museum of America Art, Washington, DC The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Otis Huband

68. Otis Huband, An Astonishment, 2017, oil stick on canvas, 43x65.25 inches.

69. Otis Huband, Full Moon, 2016, oil on canvas, 43.5x67 inches.

70. Otis Huband, 1,000 Cuts, 2013, oil stick on canvas, 69.5x43.5 inches.

71. Otis Huband, Soft Rapollo 2, 2000, oil stick on canvas, 52x37 inches.

OTIS DARE HUBAND, JR.

Selected Exhibitions

Otis Huband was born in 1933 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He studied art at Virginia Commonwealth University and, after a tour of duty in the Navy, attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He returned to complete both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Commonwealth University and then travelled to Italy to study at the Academia de Bella Arta in Perugia.

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1933 Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia 1955–56 Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William & Mary (now the Virginia Commonwealth University), Richmond, Virginia 1956–57 Ventura Junior College, Ventura, California 1957–58 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California 1958–61 BFA and MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 1963–64 Accademia di Bella Arti, Perugia, Italy 1967–71 Instructor, Museum School (now Glassell School), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1967–72 Instructor, summer school for high school students, Rice University, Houston, Texas 1971–82 Instructor, Art League of Houston, Texas 1975 Instructor, Life Drawing, University of Houston, Texas Resides in Houston, Texas

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1957 Solo, Studio Gallery, Oakland, California 1956 Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia 1958–61 Pyramid Gallery, Richmond, Virginia 1960 Solo, Erick Schendler Gallery, Richmond, Virginia 1961 Solo, 20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia 1963–64 Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 1964 Solo, Circolo di Universita, Perugia, Italy 1965 Solo, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Virginia 1965 Solo, Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1965 Solo, Wisconsin State College, River Falls, Virginia 1965–66 James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1966–67, Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas 1966–70, Erdon Gallery, Houston, Texas 1966–70 Frederick Nila Gallery, Longview, Texas 1968 Sol del Rio, San Antonio, Texas 1968 10th Annual Invitational Exhibit, Nicholson Memorial Library, Junior Service League of Longview, Texas 1968–70 Cascade Gallery, Eugenia, Oregon 1972–90, Louisiana Gallery, Houston, Texas 1974 University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, Texas 1975 Faculty Exhibition, University of Houston, Texas 1976 Solo, Ars Longa Gallery, Houston, Texas 1976 Solo, University of Houston Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 1989 Solo, Goethe Institute, Houston, Texas 1993 Solo, Print Museum, Houston, Texas 2010 The Texas Aesthetic: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 The Figurative Revelations of Otis Huband: A Fifty Year Retrospective, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2010 Texas Collages: A Tribute to Kurt Schwitters, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

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2011 Breakthrough: Sixty Years of Texas Abstraction, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2011 Otis Huband: Recent Works, 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 Paths to Abstraction: Paintings by Otis Huband and Jim Woodson, 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 2014 Solo, Figuratively Speaking: Paintings & Collages by Otis Huband, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2014 Lone Star Masters of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue) 2015 Off the Easel: Recent Works by Otis Huband, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2017 Modernist Figurations: Otis Huband, Charles Jones, Bill Reily, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston

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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

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY Jesus Moroles

72. Jesus Moroles, Vanishing Edge Round (pair), 1987, Vermont granite, 33x13x7 inches.

Jesús Moroles (1950-2015)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Granite - 7,300 LBS, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX EDUCATION 2013 30 Years of Sculpture, The Nave Museum Of Art, Victoria, Texas • 1978 B.F.A., University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1975 A.A., El Rings of Granite, Red & White Gallery, Fayetteville, Texas 2012 Rings Centro College, Dallas, TX of Granite, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA • Rings of Granite, Photos Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas AWARDS Rings of Granite, J. Cotter Gallery, Beaver Creek, Colorado 2011 Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist, Austin, Texas Portrait of an Artist, The Wynne Home Arts Center, Huntsville, Texas 2010 Community Leader Award West Side Business Association, Tearing Granite: The Sculpture of Jesús Moroles, Shaw Center for Corpus Christi, Texas the Arts, LSU Museum of Art, Baton 2008 National Medal of Arts, The White House, Washington, D.C. Rouge, LA 2007 Texas Cultural Trust, Texas Medal of Arts Award for Visual Arts, 2011 The Wynne Home Arts Center, Huntsville, TX Austin, TX 2010 Creating a Sense of Place, Charles B. Goddard Center for the 2006 University of North Texas, Denton, North Texas Exes/Gulf Arts, Ardmore, OK Creating a Sense of Place, Latino Cultural Center, Coast, Martha Turner Award of Distinction, Dallas, Texas Houston, TX 2009 Concepts in Granite, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 2004 The Outstanding Citizen, Corpus Christi, TX Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX 1999 Colorado Chapter of Landscape Architects Award for the Vail Creating a Sense of Place, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Sculpture Plaza, Vail, CO 2008 Man and Nature Working Together, Laramie County 1998 American Institute of Architects, Award of Merit for Veteran's Community College, Laramie, WY Memorial, Albuquerque, NM 1997 Multicultural Educational Center for the Arts, Artist Award, Charles B. Goddard Center for the Arts, Ardmore, OK Houston, TX Art Gallery at Latitude 28.02’, Rockport, TX 1996 Alumni Association of the University of North Texas, Denton, 2007 Arthur Roger Gallery Project Space, New Orleans, LA Distinguished Alumni Golden Eagle Award 1995 American West Texas Triangle: Moroles, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Institute of Architects Award, Houston Chapter, Houston, TX Angelo, TX West Texas Triangle: Moroles, The Old Jail Art Center, 1992 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, President's Citation Albany, TX Award West Texas Triangle: Moroles, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Odessa, TX 1989 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston West Texas Triangle: Moroles, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, 1984 National Endowment of the Arts, Matching Grant, TX Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL 1982 Award in West Texas Triangle: Moroles, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas the Visual Arts Fellowship 1982, part of Visual Art 2, funded by Altermann Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Equitable Life Assurance Altermann Galleries, New York, NY Society, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment 2006 City-Scape, Untitled [Artspace], Oklahoma City, OK for the Arts Moroles: Paper & Granite, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian

Basin, Odessa, TX Galleries, New York, NY 2005 Small Sculptures, Artyard, Denver, CO Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Musical Granite Dreamscape, Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Sculpture, Adair Margo Gallery, 1999 New Granite Sculptures, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Vanier El Paso, TX Small Works, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New on Marshal Way, Scottsdale, AZ Mexico Simplemente, New World Museum, Houston, TX Granite Sculpture, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San China Inspirations, Hidell Brooks, Charlotte, NC Antonio, TX Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA 2004 Broken Earth, Arthur Roger Gallery Project Space, New J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Orleans, LA Heaven Dreamscapes, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Twenty Years of Granite Sculpture, Moroles Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Broken Earth, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Cerrillos, NM Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Earth Dreamscapes, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX Lamar University, Dishman Gallery, Beaumont, TX 1998 Rock, Roll and Play, Dallas Museum of Art, Fina Gallery, Dallas, TX Inspirations, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Moroles Figurative, McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Arthur Roger Gallery, New partnership with the Belo Foundation, Dallas, TX Orleans, LA Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2003 Moroles Broken Earth Sculpture, McClain Gallery, Houston, TXJoy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Artworks 2003, Holland Hall School, Walter Arts Center, Tulsa, OK Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA JesĂşs Moroles Granite Sculpture, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Sange De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO Robert McClain & Co., LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Houston, TX Olson Gallery, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN 2002 Arthur Roger 1997 Matagorda County Museum, Matagorda, TX J. Cacciola Gallery, New Orleans, LA Gallery, New York, NY Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA New Inspirations, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Cline Lew Allen, Santa Fe, NM J. Cacciola, Bernardsville, NJ Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX J. Cacciola in conjunction with Gallery Henoch, New York, NY Art Yard, Denver, CO LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM The Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO Madden Gallery, Harmony in the Stone, Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas, TX New Englewood, CO Granite Sculpture, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Laura Warriner, Oklahoma City, 2001 Harmony in Stone, (Untitled) Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK OK Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA China Revisited, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Harmony in Stone, Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1996 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Barbara Davis Gallery, J. Cacciola, New York, NY Houston, TX Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Robert Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM McClain & Co., Houston, TX San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX Harmony in The University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Edwin A. Ulrich Museum Stone, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX of Art, Wichita, KS McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX 2000 Sacred Spaces, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX J. Cacciola 1995 J. Cacciola, New York, NY

1986 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Barbara Davis Gallery, NM Houston, TX Freites-Revilla, Boca Raton, FL Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C. HLW International, New York, NY The Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX Long House, East Hampton, NY Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Robert McClain & Co., Houston, TX The Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, West Palm Beach, FL Eve Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Mannes, Atlanta, GA Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO Granite Sculpture 1980-1985, Rockport Art Center, Rockport, TX 1994 Davis McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 1985 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM 1984 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK Bonner White Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX 1983 Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX University of North Texas, Art Gallery, Denton, TX Moroles: 1981 through 1983, Koehler Cultural Center, SAC Gallery, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL San Antonio, TX 1982 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 1993 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX Heydt/Bair Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Nave Museum, Victoria, TX Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1981 Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, NM William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX Klein Art Moroles Granite Sculpture, El Centro College, Dallas, TX Works, Chicago, IL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Breeden Dawson Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2015 Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art from the Artyard, Denver, CO Smithsonian American Art Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Little 1992 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Rock, Arkansas Carl Schlosberg Fine Art, Sherman Oaks, CA Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Texas Abstract, Rudolph Blume Fine Art Gallery, Houston, Texas Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX Texas Abstract, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas Allen Center, Outdoor Rotating Sculpture Program, Houston, TX Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art from the Allen Center, Houston, TX Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1991 Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL Chicago International Art Exposition, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art from the Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1990 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Richard Green Gallery, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Santa Monica, CA Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1989 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY Richard Green Gallery, 2014 Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ Texas Abstract, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1988 Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Headley-Whitney Texas Iron Commission Selected Works, Grindstone Gallery, San Museum, Lexington, KY Simms Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA

Sculpture A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming Art Antonio, Texas The Mac @ 20 part 1, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas Museum, Laramie, WY 13 Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA Texas 2007 Texas 100: Works from select Texas artists, Adair Margo Texas Artist Group Show, Red & White Galley, Fayetteville, Texas Gallery, El Paso, TX 2006 Big Red: Carved in Stone, Leigh Yawkey All Members, Exhibition, Dougherty Art Center, Austin Texas Rock’ N the Arts: Wind... Fire... Earth, Water, The Wynne Home Art Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI Contemporary Art Houston, Shanghai Art Museum (in partnership Center, Huntsville, Texas 2013 Texas Sculpture Inside and Out, Wichita Falls Museum of Art with Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX,) Shanghai, China at MSU, Wichita Falls, Texas Past Poster Exhibition, Rockport Center Art in the Garden: Sculpture/Escultura, San Antonio Botanical Gardens, San Antonio, TX Past Poster Artists, Rockport Center For for the Arts, Rockport, Texas the Arts, Rockport, TX National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, ArtChicago 2006, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Corpus Christi, Texas Summoned Cast Metal Sculpture, K Space Artyard, Denver, CO Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas 2012 TSG, Interior Exhibit, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San A Prelude to Sculpture: Drawings & Maquettes by Sculptors, Strake Jesuit Preparatory School, Houston, TX Sculpture Now in the Antonio, Texas Red Dot Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary Art Houston Area, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX Center, San Antonio, Texas 2011 Granite Sculpture, The Brown-Wynne Gallery @ Wynne Home Art Museum of South Texas & Texas A & M Univeristy, Corpus Christi, TX Art Center, Huntsville, Texas Past Poster Exhibition, Rockport 11th Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA Center For the Arts, Rockport, Texas 2005 The Comeback Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Red Dot Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San LA 10th Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA Antonio, Texas Arts and Eats, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Houston Art Dealers Association, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Texas 50th-Anniversary Gifts and Recent Acquisitions, The McNay 2010 Group Show, The Philharmonic Center, Naples, Florida Arts & Eats, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas Museum, San Antonio, TX 2005 Art Festival Poster Artist, Rockport Center For the Arts, Rockport, TX Color/Pattern/Grid, Austin Art Gala, Southwest School Of Arts & Crafts, San Antonio, Texas Museum of Art-Downtown, Austin, TX Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Red Dot, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX Abilene, Texas Connecting Lines, Art In Embassies American 2004 30 Years A Celebration, William Campbell Contemporary Arts, Consulate, Mexico City, Mexico Past Poster Exhibition, Rockport Ft Worth, TX Hawthorne Gallery Ninth Anniversary, Big Sir, CA Center For the Arts, Rockport, Texas 35th Annual Rockport Art Festival, Rockport Center for the Arts, Red Dot Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas Earthbound Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Rockport, TX Waco Outdoor Exhibition, Baylor University, Waco, TX ArtChicago 2004, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Corpus Christi, Texas Around the World in Forty Years, Art in Embassies Program, 2009 The Great Texas Sculpture Roundup, The Beeville Art State Department, Washington, D.C. Blue Star Red Dot, Blue Star Museum, Beeville, TX 2008 Untitled [ArtSpace], Dinner In The Contemporary Art Place, San Antonio, TX Deuce, Oklahoma City, OK

Abstract Concepts, Stephen F. Austin University Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX 2003 Grand Opening, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX Monument Builders of North America, Nashville, TN Objects, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Sculptors Dominion Invitational "gods of alfresco," A San Antonio Outdoors Sculpture Gallery, San Antonio, TX 25th Anniversary, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Past Poster Artists, Rockport Center For the Arts, Rockport, TX Stone, Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Miami, FL The Art of the South 1890-2003, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Eighth Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA Sculptors Dominion Invitational "gods of alfresco," A San Antonio Outdoors Sculpture Gallery, San Antonio, TX Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, continued through 2007 2002 Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, traveled to: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA 7th Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA AHORA: New Mexican Hispanic Art, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM South Texas Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, International Sculpture San Antonio, San Antonio, TX In the Abstract, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX San Francisco International Art Exposition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Art Chicago 2002, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 2001 Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, traveled to: The Art Museum at

Florida International University, Miami, FL; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL Celebraciรณn, Buddy Holly Center, Fine Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX Sixth Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA Currents, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX San Francisco International Art Exposition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Art and Soul in the Workplace, Hall Office Park Celebration for the "Texas Sculpture Garden," Frisco, TX 30th Anniversary Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Show: The Fires of the Bronze Age...Burning Since 1971, Shidoni, Tesuque, NM Art Chicago 2001, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX The Box, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Building the Collection, University of Texas, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2000 La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Beyond Bounds 5 OFF the Record, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS Fifth Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA San Francisco International Art Exposition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Art Chicago 2000, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 20 Years of Outdoor Sculpture in Abilene 1981-2001, Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, Abilene, TX Summer Group Show, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

Prints and Sculptures, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX Sculpture 2000, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Art Chicago 2000, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA New Sculpture, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas Miniatures: Smallest, Smaller, Small, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, T 1999 Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, CA In Celebration of 20 Years of Art Excellence, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Fourth Year Anniversary, Hawthorne Gallery, Big Sur, CA San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX Retrospection 15, Buddy Holly Center, Fine Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX Art Chicago 1999, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Art Chicago 1999, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Goliad: A Cultural Convergence, sponsored by the Texas Commission for the Arts, Goliad, TX 1998 USArtists 98, J. Cacciola Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Miami Art Fair, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Texas Roots, Meadows Gallery, The Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Inaugural Group Exhibition, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC Pier Walk '98, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 1998, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Chicago Art Fair, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Jesús Bautista Moroles, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX Sculpture, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 1997 If the Stones Could Speak, University of Houston Downtown, O'Kane Gallery, Houston, TX Boom, T. Curtsnot Fine Art, Miami, FL William Campbell Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX Spain in Cerrillos, Moroles Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM Art Chicago 1997, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL Pier Walk '97, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Celebración, Buddy Holly Center, Fine Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX Exo/Ero/Erotica, Offsite, Santa Fe, NM

Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna, Austin, TX Contemporary New Mexico Artists: Sketches and Schemes, Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Abstraction, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 1996 Contemporary Lights: A Celebration of Chanukah, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, TX American Investigations, Abstractions, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Painting, Prints and Sculpture, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Malibu, CA Three Paths in Our Garden: Jesús Moroles, James Surls, Michael Manjarris, Irving Arts TX Decathlon: Paintings, Sculpture and Photography, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Art Chicago 1996, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Invitational, Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Sculpture on the Green, Omni Hotel, Houston, TX Material + Spirit, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Contemporary New Mexico Artists: Sketches & Schemes, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Summer Exhibition, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Center, Irving, 1995 Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House Exhibition III, Washington, D.C. 1995-96 hosted by Hillary Rodham Clinton for the First Lady's Garden, a four-part series The Golden & the Baroque in Contemporary Art, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Contemporary Abstractions, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL "Sited Sculpture," Moroles Cultural Center, Cerrillos, NM Torn and Horned Granite Forms, LongHouse Foundation, East Hampton, NY Collector's Choice, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa

Fe, NM Convergence, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX US Artists ' 95, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Artists' Plates: A Celebration, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM Summer Break 1995, Pennzoil Place, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Inner Journeys: Private Pictures Private Lives, Pennzoil Place, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX A Gathering of Galleries, A Gathering of Artists, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Arvada, CO 1994 El Mundo Del Arte De Nuevo Mexico, New Mexico Cultural Festival Book Fair, Guadalajara, Mexico US Artists ' 94 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Second Annual Sculpture on the Green, Omni Hotel, Houston, TX Small Scale Granite Sculptures, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Judicious Choices, Pennzoil Place, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 1993 Cinco de Tejas: Visual Vanguards, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX Lubbock Fine Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX American Sculpture: A Contemporary Perspective, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY International Sculpture Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Malibu, CA Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Collectibles, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 1992 Singular Visions, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Klein Art Works, Chicago, IIL 1991 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Chicago International Art Exposition, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL Escultura 1991 Exposition, Polanco, Mexico 1990 For the Collector: Important 20th Century Sculpture, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX Astraea, A Literary and Art Salon, Washington, D.C. Group Sculpture Show, Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Inaugural Exhibition: Sculpture, Prints, Drawings, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Malibu, CA 1989 Sculpture: Works With Water, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA A Century of Sculpture in Texas: 1989-1999, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX Celebracion Hispanica, Didactic Gallery, Frito-Lay, Plano TX For the Collector: Important Contemporary Sculpture, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 1988 3rd International Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL Top Choices, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1987 Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, curated by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX American Sculpture Investigations, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Going to the Dogs, Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Contemporary Hispanic Art, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ Outdoor Sculpture by Texas Artists, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX; City of Texarkana, Texarkana, TX 1986 Chulas Fronteras Tour, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas Cultural Activities Center, Temple, TX; Bath house Cultural Center, Dallas, TX; Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX State of the Arts, Texas!, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Outdoor Sculpture by Texas Artists, organized by the Texas Fine Art

Association, Austin Museum of Art Showdown Perspectives on the Southwest, Alternative Museum, at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX; Arboretum, Austin, TX; Texas A&M New York, NY Thirteen South Texas Artists, Cayman Gallery, New University, College Station, TX The New West, Colorado Springs York, NY Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Vistas, Stables Art Center, Taos Art Association, Taos, NM 1985 Fifth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene Fine Arts Symposium Invitational Exhibition, Elisabeth Ney Museum, Austin, Museum and the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, Abilene, TX TX Fourth Texas Sculpture Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, Marilyn Butler Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ TX Four State Survey, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Texas Visions, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX Outdoor Sculpture, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Fifth Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium, Dallas, TX Ninth Annual Sculpture Show, Shidoni, Tesuque, NM Showdown, Outdoor Sculpture, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Art/ DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Furniture, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas Baumgartner Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Gallery, Washington, D.C. Regional Transformations, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX Southwest Sculpture Society, Rockport Art Center, Rockport, TX Drawings and Marquettes: Bayou Show, Center for Art and First Anniversary Exhibition, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC Performance, Houston, TX 1982 AMST 1: Annual Juried Exhibition, Phyllis Weil & Company, New York, NY Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 1984 Dallas Meets Santa Fe, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX Tejano Sculptors, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, TX Sixth Annual Fourth of July Exhibition, Carancahua Gallery, Corpus Indian Market, Hedyt/Bair Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Christi, TX Another Great Love Affair, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Inaugural Exhibition, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC Invitational 82, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TX Shidoni Sculpture, sponsored by Shidoni Gallery and Foundry, Texas Only, Texas Fine Arts Association, third annual exhibition, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, TX Art in Public Places, Diverse Works, Austin, TX Houston, TX Mile of Sculpture, Art 1982 Chicago, Navy Pier, Mattingly Baker One % For Art, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Gallery, Dallas, TX 12th International Sculpture Conference, San The 1984 Invitational, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM Francisco, CA 10th Anniversary Outdoor Sculpture Show, Shidoni, Tesuque, NM A Celebration of Texas Sculpture, Texas Invitational, Sam Houston Sculpture in the Garth: Contemporary Sculpture, St. John's State University Sculpture Center, Huntsville, TX Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, CO Fourth Annual Outdoor Sculpture North Texas State Sculpture Invitational, University Art Gallery, Exhibition, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX Denton, TX Selections from the Awards in the Visual Arts 2, Equitable Gallery, Eighth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Shidoni, Tesuque, NM New York, NY A Dozen from Dallas (in association with Mattingly Baker Gallery), Moroles and Antreasian, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO Watson de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX 1983 Awards in the Visual Arts 2, DeCordova and Dana Museum 1981 Shidoni, Tesuque, NM and Park, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Art Center 1981 Competition, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Connemara Sculpture on the Green, Connemara, Dallas, TX

Seventh Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Shidoni, Tesuque, NM North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO Hedyt/Bair Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Mexican American Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, WS University, Wichita, KS El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Fondazione Umberto Severi, Capri, Italy Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Irvine Arts Center, Irving, TX Jesuit Dallas Museum, Dallas, TX Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, Nebraska McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL Robert and Ryda Levi Foundation, Baltimore, MD Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS American Airlines, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Dallas, Texas American General Corporation, Houston, Texas

American Republic Insurance, Des Moines, Iowa Andrews & Kurth, Houston, Texas AT&T Prudential, Pleasanton, California AT&T Prudential, Dallas, Texas Bank South, Atlanta, Georgia Billingsley Company, Dallas, Texas BMC Software, Inc., Houston, Texas Caltex Petroleum, Las Colinas, Texas Capital National Bank, Fort Worth, Texas Chevy Chase Building, Bethesda, Maryland Credit Suisse, Chicago, Illinois Credit Suisse, Houston, Texas Credit Suisse, New York, New York Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Desert Mountain Corporation, Carefree, Arizona E.F. Hutton/ CBS, New York, New York Equitable Life Assurance, Fresno, California Gulf Canada Resources Limited Calgary, Alberta, Canada Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C. Hall Financial Group, Frisco, Texas Hall Winery, St Helena, California Hall Arts District Center, Dallas, Texas Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonio, Texas I.B.M., Raleigh, North Carolina The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD King James Group, Independence, Ohio Nabisco Brands, East Hanover, New Jersey National Health Insurance, Dallas, Texas Newsweek, Mountain Lake, New Jersey Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, California Piedmont Associates, Atlanta, Georgia Southwestern Bell, San Antonio, Texas Sullivan Corporation, Dallas, Texas Texaco, Houston, Texas Texas Commerce Bank, Arlington, Texas

Trammelll Crow Associated Companies, Dallas, Texas United Jersey Bank, Preston, New Jersey Viacom, New York, New York (commissioned by CBS) Vantage Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia Woodlands Corporation, Woodlands, Texas SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS A.H. Belo Corporation, Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas China International City Sculpture, Beijing, China City of Albuquerque, Veteran's Memorial, Albuquerque, New Mexico City Hall of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas City of Rockport, Little Bay, Rockport, Texas Corpus Christi City Hall, City of Corpus Christi, Texas Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana City of Houston, Hermann Park, Houston, Texas First Baptist Church, Waxahachie, Texas Jesuit College Preparatory, Dallas, Texas Houston Police Officers Memorial, Houston, Texas University of North Texas, Denton, Texas National Ranching Heritage Center Lubbock, Texas Mercy Memorial Cancer Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma The Residence Inn Arlington Courthouse , Arlington, Virginia Rice University, Houston, Texas Robert & Ryda Levi Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas Saint Thomas Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall, Scottsdale, Arizona Strake Jesuit Preparatory School, Houston, Texas University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas University of Houston, Houston, Texas Xiadu Park, Yanqing, China World Towers One, Houston, Texas Zizhu Science Based Industrial Park, Shanghai, China

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY David Cargill

73. David Cargill, Family, 1954, mahogany, 120x48x12 inches.

DAVID CARGILL David Cargill was born in Huntsville, Texas in 1929 and spent his early childhood in Navasota, Texas. He moved with his family to Beaumont in 1935. The artist first enrolled at Rice University from 1946 - 1948 where he studied pre-med. By the fall of 1948, he had changed career paths and began studying industrial design at Pratt Institute in New York where he met his wife Patricia Cargill. The Cargills were married in 1950, and in 1951 returned to Beaumont where Cargill received his first commissions for portrait busts and murals. The artist received his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1955 and soon thereafter embarked on travels to Europe. In 1962 he returned to Europe to cast commissions in Italy.

Having been an integral part of the Southeast Texas arts community as both an artist and a supporter of the arts for well over 50 years, Cargill’s sculpture has helped define the public image of Beaumont. He is a historically and regionally important artist who has graced the region with major, large-scale sculpture, including sacred and secular commissions like those located at the Beaumont Civic Center, the downtown Beaumont Public Library and at Beaumont's Saint Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. He is best known in Southeast Texas for the imposing bust of Mirabeau B. Lamar at Lamar University in Beaumont. The bust is both a campus focal point and an iconic symbol of the university itself.

Other very important commissions include the Rogers Brothers sculpture on the grounds of AMSET and an impressive series of Stations of the Cross sculptures at the Chapel of St. Basil, University St. Thomas, Houston. Cargill was recognized nationally and was awarded The American Institute of Architects Religious Art Award for his work at the Chapel of St. Basil for Excellence in Religious Art. Throughout his artistic career, Cargill received numerous awards both locally and nationally and graced the city of Beaumont and other locales with his majestic and humanistic sculptures. Cargill's sculpture contains visual elements that juxtapose both the

abstract and objective. His work is remarkable in its spiritual and expressive qualities. He works in a variety of materials including wood, marble, terra cotta, stone, lead and bronze.

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1929 Born Huntsville, Texas. Lived early childhood in Navasota, Texas.

1935 Moved to Beaumont.

1946-48 Pre-med, Rice University.

1948-51Industrial design, Pratt Institute, New York.

1950 Married Patricia Chickowsky. Sculpture class at Columbia University.

1951 Returned to Beaumont. Two-man exhibition, Beaumont Art Museum. Executed first commissions: portrait busts and mural.

1952 B.A. in in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute. Taught sculpture class at Beaumont Art Museum School. Numerous commissions, including St. Michael’s Orthodox Church. Freelance advertising design. Taught private classes.

1954-55M.F.A. in Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Elected to Board of Directors, Beaumont Art Museum.

1955-56Traveled, studied and worked in Europe. Did first series of Bambini figures. Ton and a half marble version of Interlude III begun.

1956Returned to Beaumont. Daughter, Ida Katherine, born.

Completed 10 foot mahogany Family, commissioned by First Federal Savings & Loan Association, Beaumont.

1957Began Studio construction. Extensive commissions for St. Elizabeth Parish started. Work reproduced Life Magazine, April 29th, 1957. Purchase Award, Torso, Beaumont Art Museum Annual Exhibition. Two-man exhibition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

1958Completed Last Supper, five ton marble commission for Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Completed mahogany and steel

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Cyclist, circulated in exhibition to ten museums by American Federation of Arts; reviewed by Emily Genauer, House & Garden, July 1958.

1959Daughter Chancel, born.

1960Instructor of Art, Lamar University.

1962Returned to Europe to cast several commissions at Guastini Foundry in Italy.

1963Employed J.R. Wheeler as assistant.

1964-65Began foundry construction. Completed commissions: ten-foot bronze for Trinity Methodist Church; heroic head of Mirabeau Lamar for Lamar University.

1965The Family, reproduced on cover of Southwest Review, Autumn 1965.

1968Began home construction. Completed bronze Horse and Rider, installed at Stemmons Towers, Dallas. Invited to show, Sphere of Art, Hemisphere, San Antonio.

1969Completed bronze Girl on Fish and Asia.

1970-71Work reproduced House & Garden, August 1970.

Completed the bronzes, Shell, Kudu, Rhinoceros with Children and Giraffe.

1971One-man exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas. Invited to show in Belgian Pavillion Building by San Antonio Art League.

1972Began work on commission for St. Joseph’s Church, Port Arthur. Four-man exhibition, Longview Museum & Arts Center.

1974Completed large bronze commission, Passengers From Earth, for Beaumont Central Library.

Selected Commissions and Public Sites Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont Beaumont Club, Beaumont Beaumont Public Library, Beaumont Beaumont State Bank, Beaumont Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Beaumont Catholic Diocese, Beaumont Children’s Medical Center, Dallas Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

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Dallas City Zoo, Dallas Ethyl Corporation Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana First Federal Savings and Loan Association Building, Beaumont First National Bank, Dallas Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont Gates Memorial Library, Port Arthur Lamar University, Beaumont Mississippi Club, Jackson, Mississippi Oak Cliff Savings and Loan, Dallas St. Anthony’s Cathedral, Beaumont Et. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, Port Neches, Texas St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Port Arthur St. Michael’s Orthodox Church, Beaumont St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Beaumont St. Thomas University, Houston San Antonio Art League, San Antonio Selwin School, Denton, Texas Seventh and Freeway Building, Beaumont Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin Trinity Methodist Church, Beaumont Wells, Duncan and Beard, Beaumont

HOUSTON'S EXPRESSIONIST LEGACY James Surls

74. James Surls, Moving Through the Diamond House, 1992, hickory,oak, & steel, 25x27x11 inches.

James Surls Biographical and Career Highlights • 1943 birth • MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art BS Sam Houston State Teachers CollegeAWARDS2013 • Texas Medal of Arts Award in the Visual Arts, Texas Cultural Trust2012 • Houston AIA Artist of the Year, American Institute of Architects, Houston2006 • Texas State Artist in the Visual Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts1993 • Living Legend Award,Dallas Contemporary Art Center 1991 • Texas Artist of the Year,Texas Commission on the Arts1979 • N.E.A. Fellowship • SELECT MUSEUM AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS • 2016 All I Ever Wanted: James Surls and Charmaine Locke, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO • 2015 The Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr. & Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair: James Surls, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The Univeristy of Oklahoma, Norman, OK • 2014 Solo Exhibition Large-Scale Outdoor Sculptures, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM • 2013 Third Annual Studio Exhibition, James Surls Studio, Carbondale, CO • 2012 Artist of the Year Exhibit, Houston Chapter Architects in America, Houston, TX • Second Annual Studio Exhibition, James Surls Studio, Carbondale, CO • 2011 Walking Flower timesthe Power of Five, City of Boston and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (June 2011 – Sept. 2013) • Inaugural Annual Studio Exhibition, James Surls Studio, Carbondale, CO • Molecular Three and Three, Contemporary Arts Museum,

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Houston, TX James Surls: In Balance, Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, NJ 2010 James Surls: The Black Arts Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO James Surls: Flowers, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY Magnificent Seven: Houston Celebrates James Surls, Rice University, Houston, TX James Surls, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LAJ ames Surls, Drawings on the Wall: When She Speaks with Blue Angel, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 2009 James Surls on Park Ave., Park Ave. between 51st and 57th Streets, New York, NY James Surls: From the Heartland, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX 2008 James Surls, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2007 Art in the Garden, San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, TX 2006 James Surls: Drawings and Sculptures, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM James Surls: Complete Fragments, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY The Splendora Years, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2005 JamesSurls:TheSplendoraYears,1977–1997,BlafferGallery, UniversityofHouston,TX James Surls: Marking Time, The Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX James Surls: Between the Old and the New, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO 2004 Drawings & Sculptures, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 2003 James Surls: Drawings and Sculpture, Adelson Gallery, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO In the Meadows: Recent Sculpture, Drawings, and Prints, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

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James Surls: Walking with Diamonds, El Paso Museum of At, El Paso, TX 1997 James Surls, Swimming in Forever, R. Don Cowan Fine & Performing Arts Center, The University of Texas, Tyler, TX 1991 Looking Out: Drawings and Prints by James Surls, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI 1987 Solo Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI James Surls: Sculpture and Drawings, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, PA; Traveled to: Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY 1984 Visions: James Surls –1974 –1984, Traveled: DallasMuseum of Fine Art, TX, La JollaMuseum, CA, Seattle Art Museum, WA • 1977 James Surls: Sculpture, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Sculpture for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA • Catalyst: Colorado Sculpture, Denver Botanic Garden, Denver, CO 2011 Giving and Receiving: A Collaborative Exhibition of the • Contemporary Artists fromChina and the USA, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO • 2008 Story: Brent Green, Jill Hadley Hooper, James Surls, Metropolitan State College ofDenver: Center for Visual Art, • Denver, CO 3 New Works: James Surls, Possibilities: Sharon Kopriva, Barbara • Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 2007 Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NEAmistad: Texas Art in Peru, Museo de • la Nacion, Lima, Peru Corresponding & Responding: United • Exhibition of Chinese-American Artists, NationalArt Museum of China, Beijing, China • 2006 Finding Balance, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TXDecades of Influence: Colorado 1985-Present, The • Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Denver,CO 2005 Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO Feb-May •

2005; The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, San Diego, CA , July 2005; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Desert, CA, Oct -Dec 2005; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Jan-April 2006; Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, Apr-Aug 2006; Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN, Sept-Nov 2006; Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Dec 2006-February 2007; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, MarchJune 2007; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, JulyAugust 2007; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Sept-Dec 2007; Columbus College of Art & Design, Jan-Mar 2008.

Still CrazyAfter All The Years. Celebrating 25 years of Contemporary Houston Artists, LawndaleArt Annex, Houston, TX 2004 Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 Treasures, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2001 Alexander Calder and James Surls, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX Inside and Out –Contemporary Sculpture, Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL 2000 Monte Carlo 2000: Contemporary American Sculpture International Sculpture Exhibition, MonteCarlo, Monaco 1999 The Creative World of Charmaine Locke and James Surls, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Larimer, WY 1994 Ideas and Objects: Selected Drawings and Sculptures from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museumof American Art, New York, NY 1993 Eye to Eye, Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 1989 The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages, Renwich Gallery, The Smithsonian,Washington D.C. 1985 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1979 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY1977Nine Artists: Theodorn Awards, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

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SELECT LARGE SCALE COMMISSIONS/COLLECTORS • 2015 Fifty Wings, 50thAnniversary Celebration, Singapore • Big Flowers, Chief Oil and Gas, Dallas, TX 2014 Sewing the Future, Carbondale, CO • Tree and Three Flowers, Upper KirbyFoundation –Houston, TX • Diamond with Nine Flowers, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 2013 Diamond with Nine Flowers, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (2014) Nature’s Language, Anadarko Petroleum, The Woodlands, TX Tree and Three Flowers, Upper Kirby Foundation, Houston, TX Molecular Bloom with Single Flower, City of Clayton, MO Molecular Three and Three, Marita and J. B.Fairbanks 2012 In Circle, Kristen and Steve Flory, Azle, TX 2011Cascading Flowers, Omni Hotel, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX All I ever wanted was to go home with you, Marilyn Oshman, Houston, TX Vase and Five Flowers, City of Houston, Houston, TX 2010 Ten Big Standing Flowers, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Rolling Flower, University ofWyoming 2008 Falling Flowers, Dechert L.L.P., New York, NY Black Bird of Paradise, Joan Warren, La Jolla, CA 2002 Eye Flower, Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, Sunset Millennium Project, West Hollywood, CA 1992 Family, collaboration with Charmaine Locke, Mariposa Park, Corpus Christi, TX 1991 Points of View, Market Square Park Project, City of Houston, Houston, TXTo the Point, GTE Telephone Operations World Headquarters at Hidden Ridge,Irving, TX 1988 There Used To Be A Lake, collaboration with poet Robert Creeley, Poets Walk,Citicorp Plaza, L.A., CA 1986 The Brazos Flower, Brazos Center and Arena/Pavilion Complex, Bryan, TX

1979 Pine Flower, Buford TV Inc., Tyler, TX 1978 Sea Flower, Hastings Keith Federal Building, New Bedford, MA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY;AmericanTelephone & Telegraph, NY, NY;Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR;Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX; Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT;City of Clayton, MO; City of Houston, Houston, TX;Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX;Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI;Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico;City of Houston, TX; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX;El Paso Museumof Art, El Paso, TX;Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX;Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, NJ; High Museum, Atlanta, GA;Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY;Liquid Paper Corporation, Dallas, TX;Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA;Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX;Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN;Memphis Museum of Art, Memphis, TN;Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Chicago, IL;Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX;Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL;Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela;Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX;Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY;McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX;Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO;Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA;Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR;Rice University, Houston, TX;San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX;San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA;Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY;Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX;University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, NE;University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK;University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; Waco Art Center, Waco, TX;Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY.

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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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