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Left to right: Thomas Jefferson Wright, Juan Nepomucena Segun, 1838, oil on canvas, 21.5 x 26.5 inches, 1989.96; Henry A. McArdle, Settlement of Austin's Colony, 1875, oil on canvas, 85.5 x 64.5 inches, 1989.64; William Henry Huddle, Sam Houston, 1886, oil on canvas, 67 x 54 inches, 1989.66;

Left to right: Brand, Stephen F. Austin with Dog, c. 1880s, (replica of Oak Tree Miniature, c. 1835), oil on canvas, 84.25 x 48 inches, 1989.61; William Henry Huddle, David Crockett, 1889, oil on canvas, 96 x 59 inches, 1989.45; Unknown, Stephen F. Austin, 1836, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, 1989.88

Left to right: Edsel M. Cramer, Barbara Jordan, 1973, oil on canvas, 40.25 x 30 inches, 1989.368. Collection of The State Preservation Board, Austin, Texas; Marie Cronin, Joanna Troutman, 1914, oil on canvas, 39 x 32 inches, 1989.87; Douglas Chandor, Sam Rayburn, 1941, oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches, 1989.67; David P. Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1969, oil on canvas, 84 x 44 inches, 1989.92. Collection of The State Preservation Board, Austin, Texas.

Images are from Resource Library article Texas State Capitol Historical Art Collection. Click on the thumbnail images for enlargements

 

Artists from Texas from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist, an exhibit held 3//23/08 - 7/20/08 at Dallas Museum of Art. Includes gallery photos. Accessed August, 2015.

Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art website has a calendar of early Texas art events. Accessed August, 2015.

Chicano Mural Movement from the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

Dallas Nine from the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

David McManaway: Cult of the Commonplace is a 2020 exhibit at the Grace Museum which says: " This exhibition presents a long overdue review of important work from his prodigious 50 year career to reexamine his role as a major artist and influencer in Texas and beyond."  Also see flipbook. Accessed 1/21

Discovering Texas: The Works of Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, an exhibit held 3//23/08 - 7/20/08 at Dallas Museum of Art. Includes gallery photos. Accessed August, 2015.

"Early Texas: A Fall Selection" November 11 - December 17, 2011 catalog from William Reaves Fine Art. Accessed 5/20

Fort Worth School of artists from the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

The Frances Golden Ware Gift: Landscapes of the Southwest, an exhibit held June 3 - August 19, 2012 at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. Accessed February, 2015

Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West is a 2015 exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center which says: "A restless and intrepid traveler, Reaugh sketched scenes while riding with cattlemen during the height of Texas's historic roundups, and he led annual sketch trips to some of Texas's most spectacular and remote locations." Also see article from Resource Library. Accessed 12/18 

Indian Rock Art from the Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

José Arpa, Spanish Painter in Texas  is a 2017 exhibit at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas which says: "Texas culture, especially, provided Arpa with an abundance of inspiration making his work vibrant and diverse. "Texas Impressionism" was greatly impacted by Arpa's style, and his teachings transformed this movement in south-central Texas." Also see Aug/Sep 2016 article in Cowboys and Indians. Accessed 4/17

Julie Speed: East of the Sun and West of the Moon  is a 2018 exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art which says: "This exhibition will feature nearly fifty works of art from the last five years, many never before exhibited, exploring Speed's mining of Western and Eastern imagery, her combination of structured and spontaneous processes, and her creation of narratives and worlds that ignite the viewer's imagination."   Accessed 9/19

Lone Star Legacy | Texas Artists of the Early 20th Century from Southwest Art, March 2005. Accessed August, 2015.

"A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism from 1935-1965" July 18 - October 8, 2014 catalog from William Reaves Fine Art  Accessed 5/20

"Painting West Texas: 35 Artists/100 years" January 1, 2009 - January 31, 2009 catalog from William Reaves Fine Art Accessed 5/20

Post Office Murals from Texas State Historical Association. Accessed August, 2015.

Stampede is an epic mural by Tom Lea on permanent display at the Ellen Noël Art Museum. The mural originally was installed in an Odessa post office. It was later conserved and laced in the museum. Accessed 5/19

"Texas Artists and Art Movements" by Jeffrey Murrah from ezinearticles. Accessed August, 2015.

Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper is a joint digital collections project between SMU Libraries' Bywaters Special Collections and Norwick Center for Digital Solutions; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Dallas Public Library's Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division and Fine Books Division; the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; and SMU's Meadows Museum. The goal of the project is to provide access to a wide range of digitized copies of works by Texas artists. Accessed 5/20

Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections, an exhibit held 3/4/12 - 5//27/12 at Dallas Museum of Art. Includes gallery photos. Accessed August, 2015.

Texas Monuments, Statues & Shrines, from Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC., catalogues dozens of monuments and statues in Texas public places. Accessed August, 2015.

Texas Panhandle Artists from West Texas A&M University. Accessed August, 2015.

"Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State" December 10, 2009 - December 19, 2009 catalog from William Reaves Fine Art Accessed 5/20

"Texas Visions of an Earlier Time: An Exhibition of Historic Texas Art" December 5 - December 20, 2014 catalog from William Reaves Fine Art  Accessed 5/20

"3 generations of El Paso Art" By Myrna Zanetell Special to El Paso Inc., February 17, 2013. Accessed August, 2015.

Tom Lea and World War II  is a 2018 exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art which says: "This is the first museum exhibition in the artist's hometown devoted to Lea's World War II paintings and drawings owned by the renowned U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort Belvoir, Virginia."  Accessed 9/19

The Amarillo Museum of Art has videos posted on this page. One of the videos, titled "An Uncommon Dream," (25 min, 26 sec) is a documentary made in advance of the opening of an exhibition titled An Uncommon Dream: The Amarillo High School Collection of 19th and 20th Century Art, held in 2010 at the Amarillo Museum of Art. Dr. Graziella Marchicelli wrote an article on the exhibition in the March-April 2010 issue of American Art Review. Dr. Marchicelli also initiated the documentaries program for the Amarillo Museum of Art. Accessed May, 2015

 

(above: Jose Aceves, Big City News, Borger, TX Post Office, 1939, oil on canvas. Treasury Department Section commission. Photograph courtesy Lynn Hopkins, wpamurals.com)

 

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

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