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Lone Star Still Lifes
April 11 - June 14, 2009
Still life paintings
have been found on the walls of Egyptian tombs and at the ancient city of
Pompeii. Admired in European and American art since the 
17th century, still life paintings were especially popular
in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. (right: H. D. BUGBEE (1900-1963),
Clarendon, Zinnias 1927, Oil on canvasboard, 12 x 16 inches. Panhandle-Plains
Historical Museum, H. D. Bugbee Estate)
Texas artists began painting still lifes in the 1830s.
To illustrate the development and establishment of this art in Texas, the
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum presents Lone Star Still Lifes
April 11 through June 14, 2009 in the Foran Galleries.
This exhibit will also examine Texas still life works through
the Regionalist period of the 1930's. Expect to see work from artists including
Robert J. Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, Florence McClung, H.D. Bugbee, Olive
Vandruff, Emilio Caballero and Isabel Robinson.
The exhibition will include works from PPHM's collection
as well as those borrowed from public and private collections. The curator
for the exhibition is Michael Grauer.
Newsletter article for the exhibition
In Texas artists have been inspired to create still lifes
since the 1830's. Lone Star Still Lifes, an exhibition April
11 through June 14 in the Foran Gallery, will focus upon the development
and establishment of still life painting in Texas by European artists and
immigrants in the 1860's.
This exhibit will also examine Texas still life works through
the Regionalist period of the 1930's. Expect to see work from artists including
Robert J Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, Florence McClung, H.D. Bugbee, Olive
Vanderuff, Emilio Caballero and Isabel Robinson.
Original abstract from the curator
A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate, usually
commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, plants and rocks)
or man-made (drinking glasses, pottery, pipes, textiles, and so on) in an
artificial setting. Still lifes allow the artist more flexibility in the
layout of design aspects within a composition than do paintings of other
types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture.
Still life paintings have been found on the walls of Egyptian
tombs and at the ancient city of Pompeii. Admired in European and American
art since the 17th century, still life paintings were especially popular
in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso
in France painted many modern still lifes. In the United States, the Peale
family in Philadelphia became well known for their still lifes and a distinct
genre of trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) painting developed in the 19th
century. In Texas, artists have been painting still lifes since the 1830s.
"Lone Star Still Lifes" will examine the establishment of still
life painting in the 1860s and 1870s with European immigrant artists and
transplants such as Robert J. Onderdonk through the Regionalist painters
of the 1930s, such as Alexandre Hogue and Florence McClung. Work by artists
from the Texas Panhandle such as H. D. Bugbee, Olive Vandruff, Emilio Caballero,
and Isabel Robinson, will be included. The exhibition will include works
from the Museum's collection as well as those borrowed from public and private
collections.
(above: Kathleen Blackshear (1897-1988) "Texas Synthesis",
1938, Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches. Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Terrell)
(above: D. Barry [Barry Jones] (b. 1945), Amarillo, Trophy
of the Hunt circa 1999, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches [sight]. Private
Collection)
(above: Adele Brunet (1871-1963), Dallas, Untitled
[Still Life with Book] circa 1930, Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches.
Beverly and George Palmer Collection)
(above: Fred Darge (1900-1978), Dallas, The Glass Jar,
Oil on board, 18 x 24 inches. Collection of Joan Frizzell Estes)
Checklist
- LUCIEN ABRAMS (1870-1941), Dallas/San Antonio
- Untitled [Still Life with Blue Platter] circa 1930
- Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in.
- Private Collection
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- DAVID ADICKES (b. 1927), Houston
- Untitled [Still Life] 1953
- Oil on panel, 9 x 13 in.
- Collection of Randy Tibbits and Rick Bebermeyer
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- VIVIAN L. AUNSPAUGH (1869-1960), Dallas
- Untitled [Still Life] n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- gift of Muriel M. and Edward J. Denari
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- ADRIENNE AUTREY (1902-1991), Houston/Huntsville
- Untitled [Still Life with Fruit & Leaf] circa 1960
- Oil on board, 12 x 16 in.
- Collection of Konrad Shields
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- BEULAH SCHILLER AYARS (1866-1960), Houston
- Still Life [Datura Arborea] circa 1934
- Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 1/4 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- gift of Patricia John Keightley
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- REVEAU BASSETT, Dallas
- Untitled [Jug and Fruit]circa 1930
- Oil on canvasboard, 16 x 20 in.
- Judy and Stephen Alton Collection
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- MAURICE BERNSON (1920-1998), Canadian
- Hibiscus Blossom, Outdoor Still Life (#159)ca. 1950
- Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Gift of Joyce Bernson McDonald,
Albert Bernson, and Claude Bernson
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- KATHLEEN BLACKSHEAR (1897-1988), Navasota
- Texas Synthesis 1938
- Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Terrell
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- BILL BOMAR (1919 -1990), Fort Worth
- Untitled [Still Life] circa 1944
- Watercolor on paper, 22 X 14 _ in.
- Collection of Nancy and Otis Welch
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- CHARLES T. BOWLING (1891-1985), Dallas
- Untitled [Still Life] circa 1930
- Oil on panel, 12 x 10 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of Beth and David Dike
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- GRANVILLE BRUCE (1903-1989), San Antonio/Dallas/Irving
- Spirit of the West 1969
- Watercolor, 24 x 20 in.
- Bruce Family Collection
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- ADELE BRUNET (1871-1963), Dallas
- Untitled [Still Life with Book] circa 1930
- Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.
- Beverly and George Palmer Collection
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- DOROTHY BRYAN (1905-1993), Lubbock
- The White Flower n.d.
- Casein on Masonite, 24 x 12 _ in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of Charles Adams
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- H. D. BUGBEE (1900-1963), Clarendon
- Zinnias 1927
- Oil on canvasboard, 12 x 16 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- H. D. Bugbee Estate
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- MARY J. M. BULLOCK (1898-1978), Fort Worth
- Poinsettia n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 20 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of United Credit Inc.
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- C. GRAHAM BURR (b. circa 1913), Corsicana Untitled [Tulips]
n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
- Katherine and Morris Matson Collection
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- JERRY BYWATERS (1906-1989), Dallas
- Tulips 1932
- Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
- Collection of Marcia and Marc Bateman
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- EMMA RICHARDSON CHERRY (1859-1941), Houston
- Roses
- Oil on canvas, 12 x 10 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of Scott Higginbotham
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- FRED DARGE (1900-1978), Dallas
- The Glass Jar
- Oil on board, 18 x 24 in.
- Collection of Joan Frizzell Estes
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- LISE DARST (b. 1933), Galveston
- Untitled [Peonies] circa 1970
- Watercolor on paper, 24 x 15 in. [sight]
- Private Collection
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- LISE DARST (b. 1933), Galveston
- Untitled [Still Life with Chicken] circa 1960
- Oil on cabinet door, 24 x 13 7/8 in.
- Private Collection
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- OLA McNEILL DAVIDSON (1884-1976), Houston
- Giant Callas circa 1928
- Oil on canvas, 23 _ x 19 _ in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Purchase funded by Cynthia and Bill Gayden and Beth and David Dike
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- JESSIE DAVIS (1887-1962), Dallas
- Texas Trumpet Creeper n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 in.
- Collection of Bill and Mary Cheek
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- NELL PIERCE DOW (1893 1976), Fort Worth
- Spring Bouquet 1949
- Watercolor, 21 1/2 x 28 _ in. [sight]
- Courtesy Dow Art Galleries, Fort Worth
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- MARY DOYLE (b. 1904), Dallas
- Honeydew Melon 1955
- Serigraph on paper, 11 _ x 18 _ in. [image]
- Judy and Stephen Alton Collection
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- PATTIE EAST (1894-1994), Fort Worth
- Texas Cotton circa 1920s
- Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in.
- Courtesy Rainone Galleries Inc., Arlington, Texas
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- INEZ STAUB ELDER (1894-1991), Dallas
- Zinnias n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 19 x 15 in.
- Collection of Patricia and Jeffrey Sone
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- JACK KEY FLANAGAN (1920-1998), Houston
- Flowers and Pears 1944
- Oil on canvas, 25 x 17 in.
- Collection of Randy Tibbits and Rick Bebermeyer
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- HENRY V. GADBOIS (1888-1975), Houston
- Amarylis and Privet 1941
- Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
- Collection of Henri Gadbois
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- HENRI GADBOIS (b. 1930), Houston
- Three Bottles 1967
- Oil on canvas, 10 x 12 in.
- Collection of Henri Gadbois
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- FRANK GERVASI (1895-1986), Marfa
- Sweetpeas in a Pitcher n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Lucille Nance Jones Collection
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- DAN GILLHAM (1922-2009), Amarillo
- Greyhound 1943
- Oil on canvasboard, 20 x 16 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of the artist in memory of Isabel Robinson
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- LOUISE MARKS GOLDSTEIN (1899-1990), Sherman
- Blue Vase n.d.
- Oil on canvas, 32 x 29 in.
- Collection of Mary and Bill Cheek
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- GEORGE GRAMMER (b. 1928), Fort Worth
- Still Life with Driftwood, Sea Forms, and Moon 1949
- Casein on paper, 16 x 20 in.
- Scott Grant Barker Collection
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- HARRIETT P. GRANDSTAFF (1894-1975), Dallas
- Untitled [Flowers] n.d.
- Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 8 x 10 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Harriett P. Grandstaff Estate
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- A. D. GREER (1904-1998), Austin
- Roses n.d.
- Oil on canvasboard, 18 x 14 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S.
Smith
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- A. D. GREER (1904-1998), Austin
- Roses n.d.
- Oil on canvasboard, 18 x 14 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S.
Smith
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- EMIL GUIDROZ (1906-2006), Dallas/Fort Worth
- Still Life with Camellias circa 1940
- Oil on canvasboard, 14 x 18 in.
- Mrs. Richard W. Ekstrom Collection
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- ANN REAGAN GUILLOT (1875-1946), Dallas
- Untitled [Parrot Tulips] 1938
- Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in.
- Courtesy Dow Art Galleries, Fort Worth
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- LURA ANN TAYLOR [HEDRICK] (1906-1990), Dallas
- Mushrooms circa 1936
- Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.
- The Hockshop Collection
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- BERTHA LOUISE HELLMAN (1900-1976), Houston
- Magnolia 1934
- Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
- Collection of Linda and Bill Reaves
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- EMMA G. HENDRICKS (1868-1959), Amarillo/San Antonio
- Cannas circa 1936
- Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, gift of Susan Nelson
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- POLLY HOFFMAN (1890-1949), Wichita Falls
- Elder Daisies and Larkspur n.d.
- Oil on board, 16 x 20 in. [sight]
- Private Collection
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- POLLY HOFFMAN (1890-1949), Wichita Falls
- Untitled n.d.
- Painted basket, 16 x 12 x 12 in. [sight]
- Private Collection
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- ALEXANDRE HOGUE (1898-1994), Dallas
- Chastity circa 1930
- Oil on canvas, 20 x 18 in.
- Private Collection
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- JAN HOLMES (1919-2007), Fort Worth
- Untitled [Still Life with Bottle and Fruit] circa 1950s
- Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in.
- Katherine and Morris Matson Collection
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- AMY MIEARS JACKSON (1903-1972), Amarillo/Galveston
- Untitled [Daisies] n.d.
- Watercolor on paper, 10 x 12 in. [sight]
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum,
- Gift of Dr. Emilio and Mary Caballero
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- MARJORIE JOHNSON (1911-1997), Fort Worth
- Untitled [Table, Chair, and Plate] circa 1946
- Oil on canvas, 33 x 17 in.
- Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, gift of the artist
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