Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture catalogue

THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF

TEXAS PAINTING S SCULPTURE

Sponsored by the STATE FAIR OF TEXAS Organized by DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

PARTICIPATING MUSEUMS Fort Worth Art Cen ter Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio (with cooperation of San Antonio Art League)

Dallas Museum of Art Ubrary

Mr. Lloyd Goodrich, Associate Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, selected for the exhibition 84 pieces from the 474 works entered by 296 Texas artists.

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\':ftoreword This exhibition will give the visitor an opportunity to see a cross-section of contemporary American painting and sculpture, ranging all the way from representational art, which produces a more or less realistic image of the visible world, to pure abstraction , in which the artist uses form and color as freely as the musician uses sound. In between these two poles lie many styles as varied as the artists who created them. Thus the exhibition exemplifies the individualism and diversity of our democratic culture.

Speaking personally, it has been interesting to me to find in much of the work a flavor peculiar to this region and different from the art of other sect ions . Twenty years ago there was a strong regionalist trend in American art - a trend which produced some work of lasting value that has been obscured by the movement's excesses of chauvinism and self-consciousness. Today the prevailing trends are in the opposite direction, away from regional differences and toward similar viewpoints appea ring in every section of the country. It is refreshing to find in Texas much art that seems to spr ing naturally from the soil and climate and character of the state, that has the virtues that come from the artist's identification with his surroundings, and that at the same time speaks in the universal language of form, color and design .

Lloyd Goodrich

{onfronfcover} "The City", oil paintina by SEYMOUR FOGEL, $1,000 State Fair of Texas Purchase Prize '

Sculpture

OCTAVia MEDELLIN, Dallas

DON BARTLETT, Austin

ROBERT SCHINDLER, Austin

74. Prelude (p la ste r)

80. The Watcher (pla ster)

HERI BERT BARTSCHT, Dallas 75. Saint Sebastian (cedar)

DOT CARAWAY, Fort Worth 76. Seated Figure (ce ra mic)

DAVID CARGILL, Beaumont 77. Bab ies with Kitte n (mar ble)

BESS HUBBARD, Lubbock 78. Simp lice (al a baster)

79 . Moses (bla ck walnut)

EVALINE C. SELLaRS, Fort Worth 81. Rivals (terra cotta)

MARGARET STITES, San Ange lo 82. Brahma (ter ra cotta )

CHARLES UMLAUF, Aust in 83. Mothe r a nd Child (wood)

ELAINE T. VASKA, Austin 84. Faith (terra cott a)

"Pre/ude" by DO N BARTLETT, Straus Frank Company Award

Dallas Museum of Art Library'

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~~bibition Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Fort Worth Art Center

Calendar October 7 through November 13 December 4 through 26

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio . Jan. 8 through 29, 1956 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin . Feb. 12 through Mar. 4, 1956

" A utumn Landscape" , oil pa inting by EVERETT SPRUCE, $750 Dallas Art Association Purchase Prize

State Fair of Texas Purchase of $1,000 for the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts SEYMOUR FOGEL, Austin

. for oil painting, "The City"

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Dallas Art Association Purchase of $750 for the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts EVERETT SPRUCE, Austin

. for oil painting, "Autumn Landscape"

Julian Onderdonk Memorial Purchase of $500 for the San Antonio Art League collection DONALD WEISMANN, Austin

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for oil painting, " Port Control"

Auto Convoy Company Purchase of $250 for the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts LUIS EADES, Austin

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for oil painting, "Summer Garden"

" Port Control" by DONALD WEISMANN, Julian Onderdonk Memorial Purchase Prize

Awards

Fort Worth Art Association Award of $150 JOHN GUERIN, Austin ... for oil painting, "Deep Water Station" Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award of $100 JOAN HIERHOLZER, San Antonio ... for oil painting, "Spring" Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award of $100 OLIN TRAVIS, Dallas .. . for oil painting, "Lakeside" Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award of $100 KELLY FEARING, Austin ... for oil painting, "St. John in the Wilderness" Foley's of Houston Award of $100 HARRY AKIN, Dallas ... for oil painting, "Sccpulo" Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation Award of $100 MICHAEL FRARY, San Antonio ... for oil painting, "Oil Rig" Straus Frank Company Award of $100 DON BARTLETT, Austin ... for sculpture, "Prelude" San Antonio Men of Art Guild Award of $50 ANNABEL M. BERRY, Dallas ... for oil painting, "Call of the Whippoorwill"

Two of the Houston Museum s awards were donated by the Humble Oil and Refining Company. l

"Deep Water Station" by JOHN GUERIN, Fort Worth Art Association Award

Bill BOMAR, Fort Worth 5. Abiquiu Peak (watercolor) 6. Portrait of Will K. (oil)

DAVID ADICKES, Austin 1. Composition with Figures and Chairs (oil)

HARRY AKIN, Dallas 2. Scapula (oil)

ANNABEL M. BERRY, Dallas 3. Call of the Whippoorwill (oil)

REID BEYER, Dallas 4. City Scene (oil)

JAMES W. BOYNTON, Houston 7. The Burning Bush (oil)

ETHEL MAY BRODNAX, Dallas 8. The New Sail (oil)

JOSEPH A. CAIN, Corpus Christi 9. Still Life (oil)

MRS. DAVID CARGill, Beaumont 10. Annunciation (casein)

CECIL LANG CASEBIER, Sen .Antonio

BILL GOLDSMITH, Dallas 23. Hot Sky, Red Sea (oil)

11. Five Men on a ladder (oil)

JOHN GUERIN, Austin PAT COLVILLE, Dallas

24. Deep Water Station (oil)

12. Bull Ring (oil)

FRED DARGE, Dallas

JOAN HIERHOLZER, San Antonio 25. Spring (oil)

13. Open Country (oil)

WILFRED HIGGINS, Dallas PAUL DOBRICK, San Antonio

26. Texas Gothic (oil)

14. Man, Rocks, Sky (oil)

OTIS DOZIER, Dallas

JAN HOLMES, Fort Worth 27. The Sentinel (oil)

15. Red Mesa (oil)

LUIS EADES, Austin 16. Summer Garden (oil)

KELLY FEARING, Austin 17. St. John in the Wilderness (oil)

J. RAYMOND FLETCHER, San Antonio 18. Rock City (oil)

SEYMOUR FOGEL, Austin 19. The City (oil)

MICHAEL FRARY, San Antonio 20. Oil Rig (oil)

JAMES L. FRAZER, San Antonio 21. West Side (oil)

JOHN FRAZER, Longview 22. Equestrian (oil)

"Summer Garden", oil painting by LUIS EADES, Auto Convoy Company Purchase Prize

"Lakeside" by OLIN TRAVIS, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award

DeFORREST H. JUDD, Dallas 28. Caddo lake Pier (oil)

EDMOND R. KANWISCHER, Port Arthur 29. Cleft (oil)

AMY FREEMAN LEE, San Antonio 31 . Fishermen's Festival (watercolor)

WALTER L. LENGEl, Dallas 32. Shadow on Terrace (oil)

RICHARD W. KINNAIRD, San Antonio 30. Tricyclists (oil)

WIlliAM LESTER, Austin 33 . Found on a Beach (oil) 34. Wreckage on a Shore (oil)

KENNETH B. LOOMIS, Denton 35 . Sun, Rocks and Ships (oil)

PHILIP MAGINOT, San Angelo 36 . Iearian Flight (oil)

KEITH MciNTYRE, San Antonio 37 . The Ancient Place (oil)

HERBERT MEARS, Houston 38. Studio Still life (oil)

FRED MITCHAM, Dallas 39. Beach (oil)

"St. John in the Wilderness" by KELLY FEARING, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award

ROBERT PREUSSER, Houston

CHARLES MORGAN, Port Arthur

45. Whirlpool Imagery (plastic pojnt)

40 . Outgrowth (oil)

MARGARET PUTNAM, Waco

LOREN MOZLEY, Austin

46 . Draglines (oil)

41. West Cave (oil)

STEPHEN T. RASCOE, Corpus Christi

JULIA ORYNSKI, Dallas 42. Medley Marvel (oil)

47. Small Boats (oil)

OLIVE PEMBERTON, Fort Worth MRS. CHARLES H. RAVEY, Austin

43. Metropolis (oil)

48 . Portrait of a Fisherman (oil)

O . GEORGE PINCA, San Antonio 44 . Bridge Construction (oil)

" Oil Rig" by MICHAEL FRARY, Sch lumberger Well Surveying Corporat ion Award

"Scapula" by HARRY AKIN, Foley's of Houston Award

CLAYTON M. ROLLINS, Lufkin 49. East Texas Pines (oil)

GERALD THARP, Houston 56. Polar Towers (oil)

FRANCES TAYLOR ROYSTON, Houston 50 . Seated Woman (collage)

CLOVER V. SHORE, Fort Worth 51. Grubstake (oil)

MARVIN M. SIGEL, Dallas 52. Korean Street (oil)

MARY SLOAN, Corpus Christi 53. Grotesque Dance (oil)

EVERETT SPRUCE, Austin 54. Autumn Landscape (oil)

JAMES A. STERRITT, Fort Worth 55. Grasshopper # 1 (tempera)

JACK TINKLE, San Antonio 57. Injun Country (oil)

CHESTER J. TONEY, San Antonio 58. Desert Rock (oil)

OLIN TRAVIS, Dallas 59. Lakeside (oil)

L1RL TREUTER, Fort Worth 60. 8ats in a Cave (casein)

McKIE TROTTER, Fort Worth 61 . Southwestern Landscape #2 (oil)

JANET E. TURNER, Nacogdoches 62. Sanctuary (egg tempera)

BROR UTTER, Fort Worth 63. Restive Figures (oil)

LORIN VALLEE, Dallas 64. Night Flight (oil and wax)

JAMES F. VALONE, JR., Georgetown 65. Tuesday Blues (oil)

PETER VATSURES, Dallas 66. Third Floor (oil)

SELMA WALDMAN, Austin 67. Pastoral: Boy and Goat (mixed media)

DONALD L. WEISMANN, Austin 68. Port Control (oil)

"Spring" by JOAN HIERHOLZER, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston Award

CLARA McD. WILLIAMSON, Dallas 69. Sweet Adeline (oil)

DAN WINGREN, Austin 70. Fishes (oil)

BETTY WINN, Dallas 71. Mossy Bayou (oil)

MELVIN WOOD, Kingsville 72. Martyr (oil and casein)

ARTHUR YOURZIK, San Antonio 73. The Harbor (casein)

"Call of the Whippoorwill" by ANNABEL M. BERRY, San Antonio Men of Art Guild Award