San Antonio Art League & Museum 94th Juried Exhibition Catalog

EXHIBITION CATALOG

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Copyright © 2024 by Lyn Belisle and the San Antonio Art League & Museum All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher and the artists whose works are included except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America First Printing, 2024 The San Antonio Art League & Museum 130 King William Street San Antonio. Texas 78204 www.saalm.org

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Exhibition Overview The annual San Antonio Artists Exhibition is open to all artists with established residence in the State of Texas including the armed forces personnel stationed in Texas. With its objective in promoting artistic excellence in the art community, the annual exhibition welcomes creative artworks in all media except jewelry and video.

The current exhibition is the 94th open event of the San Antonio Art League and Museum (SAALM) in its 112 years of establishment. It grew out of the fabled Edgar B. Davis Competitions of the late 1920s. Ever since, numerous well-known regional and national artists have participated in this annual competition event.

Each year an Exhibition Committee is assigned by the SAALM Board to organize this event. An invited juror with outstanding background in the art and cultural fields judges all the submitted artworks. The Juror has the complete liberty in making acceptance and award decisions.

The SAALM members, patrons, supporters, and business corporations donate all the award prizes. The artwork of the Onderdonk Purchase Award is added to SAALM’s permanent collection, which is exhibited annually on a rotation basis.

The 94th Artists Exhibition accepted 61 artworks from more than 500 submitted in various media and genres. Fourteen of the exhibited artworks were given awards.

SAALM sincerely appreciates the contributions of all the participants and strongly encourages future entries by artists all across Texas.

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San Antonio Art League & Museum

94th Annual Artists Exhibition April 13 to June 7, 2024 President:

Lyn Belisle Kurtin

Exhibition Committee: Augusta Rosser (Chair) Lyn Belisle Nancy Campbell Claudia Langford Norma Jean Moore Terry Gay Puckett Stefani Spears Peter Szarmach Dona Walston Claudia White Nancy Wood

Exhibition Curators: Nancy Kempf Vikki Fields 4

Sincere Thanks to Our Financial Supporters Corporate Sponsors

Beth Eidelberg Watermedia Award Beth Eidelberg Estate

Art Gallery Prudencia Frost Bank H-E-B McNutt Foundation Enterprise Holdings

Contributor Level Awards Zet Baer Nancy Bandy Frankie Boone Vikki Fields Joan Fritze Robin Gara William E. Kurtin Claudia Langford Mark Langford Virginia Lukefahr BJ Newman Norma Jean Moore Terry Gay Puckett Brian Row Judy Row Hildegarde Slaughter Cynthia Spencer Peter Szarmach Nancy Vandenburg

Patron Level Awards Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Traylor Col. William Hill, Jr Ronald C. Keller Sponsor Level Awards Ann Griffith Ash Lyn Belisle Kurtin Hannah McManus Bally Studios, Virginia & Andre Bally Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Donor Level Awards Richard C. Arredondo Barbara C. Kyse Pam Slocum Lifshutz Foundation Patricia Romines Fred Loxsom

The San Antonio Art League & Museum thanks our sponsors for their support

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JUROR’S STATEMENT Seeing a Sense of Self Through Art Art can be viewed as a reflection of self-image and of commentary on impactful places, known and unknown. Art has the power to change the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world, awakening us to new perspectives, ideas, and values.

As an expression of self and character, artwork has sometimes hidden truth of what is important to an individual, their experiences, fears, hopes, and desires, portrayed through visual language. In the selection of work for this show, I looked to the historical foundations of the portrait, the landscape, and the still life and through these foundational works and how I could view the artist’s voice and their truth through their work.

Heather K. Lunsford March, 2024 Heather K. Frickenschmidt Lunsford is the 5th generation of a farming and ranching family from Enid, and the Director and Curator of the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University.

She is also a mixed-media artist who studied watercolor painting and art history at Oklahoma State University and Northern Illinois University. She has a painting in the permanent collection of Oklahoma State University, two in collection of the University Health System of San Antonio and has shown her artwork in galleries in the United States and Spain, where she worked in a contemporary art gallery. She received her Master of Arts in Administration from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX and wrote Spanish and bilingual educational programming at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Heather also has a certificate from Harvard Business School online in sustainable business strategy and a Master of Legal Studies from OCU, and is a member with the International Society of Appraisers. Previously, Heather was the Director of Art in Public Places for the State of Oklahoma and the Art Director for the Heritage Trust project in Oklahoma City. Heather has served as an arts commissioner for the city of Edmond, is a current Rotarian for Oklahoma City 29, advised OKCPC Academy of Arts, and is on the board of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.

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Past Julian Onderdonk Purchase Award Winners

2023 - Jayne Lawrence 2022 - Marc Eisenburg 2021 - Samuel Wilson ​2020 - Paula Sussman 2019 - Alexandra Nelipa 2018 - Brian Row 2017 - Richard Conn 2016 -Thomas Schlenker 2015 -Sallie Stanley Carter 2014 - Vikki Fields 2013 -Tamara Van Horn 2012 - Billy Keen 2011 - Francis Huang 2010 - Susan Brumfield Farris 2009 - Bernice Appelin-Williams 2008 - Solomon Wells 2007 - Rachman Ulmer 2006 - Tim McMeans 2005 - Brian St. John 2004 - Gladys Roldan-de-Moras 2003 - Betty Muyres 2001 - Margaret Warren 2000 - James Hendricks 1999 - Fritz Ozuna 1998 - Henry Stein 1997 - Brixey Sutton 1996 - Kuo Yen Ng 1995 - Robert Johnson 1994 - Dan Burt 1993 - Dan Burt 1992 - E. Gordon West 1991 - Linda Hammond 1990 - Marija Kae Rodriguez 1989 - Sandra French 1988 - Agnes Welsh Eyster 1987 - Louis Lubbering 1986 - Jim Stoker 1985 - Drusilla Pfannstiel 1984 - Joe Tye

1983 - Kathleen Cook 1982 - Neal Wilson 1981 - Thomas A. Pressly 1980 - Bill Reily 1979 - Jim Stoker 1978 – Stevie Manak 1977 - Gilberto Tarin 1976 - Frank Hein 1975 - Arthur de la Fuenta 1974 - Mildred Cocke 1973 - Richard H. Rogers 1972 - Val Alexander 1971 - Val Alexander 1970 - Mildred Cocke 1969 - David Reyes 1968 - Wendell Ott 1967 - Jack Tinkle 1966 - Carl Embrey 1965 - Jim Watson 1964 - Richard H. Rogers 1963 - Helen Van Buren 1962 - Clay Walker 1961 – Bill Bristow 1960 - June Kroll 1959 - Margaret Putnam 1958 -Leslie Larson 1957 - George Pinca 1956 - Keith McIntyre 1955 - Chester Toney 1954 - Jack Tinkle 1953 - Keith Mc Intyre 1952 - Cecil L. Casebier 1951 - Janet Turner 1950 - John Squire Adams 1949 - J. Arthur Head 1948 - Jack Tinkle 1947 - Margaret Pace 1946 - Charles Thompson

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94th Exhibition Award Winners Our Juror had the enormous task of choosing 61 artworks from over 500 submissions, but her task did not stop there. While the initial selections are chosen from digital images, the award-winning works are judged in person by the Juror during a very busy weekend. Thanks to the generosity of our Patrons, Supporters, and Members, seventeen awards totaling over $13,000 were available for the Juror to assign.

The prestigious Onderdonk Purchase Prize has been the Exhibition’s major award for most of its history. The San Antonio Art League purchases this chosen piece for its Permanent Collection annually, thus continuing to acquire an example of the best in Texas art every year.

Images of the award-winning artworks are presented on the following pages of this catalog. All the exhibited works are listed after those images. Images of all the accepted works for the 94th Exhibition are available in an online catalog on our website.

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Onderdonk Puchase Award $3000 Wes Coke What Did You Dream?

Oil on Canvas

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Beth Eidelberg Memorial Watermedia Award $1000 Richard Samuel For The Love of Frida Watercolor

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Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award $1000 Benjamin Ortiz Pico de Gallo Oil on Wood 11

Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award $1000 Jill Pankey Line of Ladies Leaning Left Oil on Canvas 12

Frank & Cecilia Keller Memorial Award $1000 Susan Best Floridays Acrylic with Paper Collage on Canvas

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Ronald C. Keller Watercolor Award $1000 April Ortiz Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas Watercolor on Paper

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Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award $1000 Suzanne Horner Turquoise Afternoon Acrylic on Canvas, Birch Natural Frame, Ceramic Tag

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Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award $750 Tony Armadillo Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn

Oil on Canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame

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Andre & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award $500 Linda S. Manning The Portal Ceramic Stoneware

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Barbara C. Kyse Award $500 Judi Simon Tiffany’s Gifts Oil on Board

Prudencia Art Gallery Award $400 Susan Arnim Corazon Oil on Canvas

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Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics $500 Suzette Schutze Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests Commercial Clay, Wild River Clay, and a dead cedar root system

President’s Award $250 Nancy Campbell Ghost Tree Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper

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Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels $250 Kraig Kiedrowski Mora Fields Pastel on La Carte pastel card

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Exhibited Artwork 94th Juried Artists Exhibition

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Greg Allen A Place Of Faith Oil on Canvas $2700 Tony Armadillo Deported to Danger and Nobody Gives a Damn Oil on canvas / Chains to hoist freight frame $6,000 Richard Conn Memorial Mixed Media Award Susan Arnim Corazon Oil on Canvas $475 Prudencia Art Gallery Award Olga Aviles Cavernous Impacts Glazed ceramic, acrylic wash, air-dry paper clay $500 Virginia Bally Sanibel Stoop Mid-Range porcelain sculpture with Celadon glaze $350 Lyn Belisle Cotton Bowl Fiber, paper, beeswax, twigs, thread, phototransfer $425 Susan Best Floridays acrylic with paper collage on canvas $850 Madison Branch Digging In The Orchard, The Earth Burrows Back Into You Watercolor, Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Pen on Paper $300 22

Nancy Campbell Ghost Tree Wool roving, silk, nepps, cheesecloth and inside finished with sea glass shells beads copper $395 President’s Award Danville Chadbourne Map Of Unknowable Places Arylic and ink on wood $2000 Sherry Christensen Texas Buttes with Cactus Foam core shapes, paper fibers, hand sewn beads, yarn, and acrylic embellishments. $400 Lara Hye Coh The Bride Oil on panel $4800 Wes Coke What Did You Dream?

Oil on canvas Onderdonk Purchase Prize Rita Maria Contreras Mamá said there’ll be days like this …(when all the parts of the puzzle…)

Oil/cold wax on cradled wood panel $950 Shelby Criswell Undulation in the Parlor Gouache, Acrylic, Tempera, and Paint Marker on Canvas $400

Ron Crouch Sleeping man with red socks (large version) Acrylic on canvas $4000

Robin Gara The Mothership Mixed media on watercolor paper, including acrylic paint, pencil, and collaged pieces of paper. $200

Shea Daniel-Youngblood Historic Guadalupe Theatre, Westside San Antonio Oil on linen panel $1200

John Garland Hunter Oil on Canvas $1750

Beth Devillier Sweet. Sick. Fire.

Inkjet print on Japanese Washi Paper $500

Nancy Gerfers Prairieland acrylic collage on canvas $875

Jana Donovan Pink Fork In The Road Acrylic and graphite pencil on mixed media paper $435

Clara Hada Path To Freedom Acrylic, paper, fabric $800

Victoria Ermler Salome Oil on Canvas $6400

Gloria Hill Urban Chaos Acrylic, paper, ink on canvas $350

Ed Escobedo Drink Set Stoneware $500

Ashley Hinze Sasquatch Daughter Graphite, 60lbs Sketch Paper $375

Patrick Flaherty Moonrise Reduction Linocut; Oil based ink on Mulberry Paper $80

Rebecca Horan Remembrances Acrylic and Oil Mixed Media on gallery wrapped canvas.

625.00

Ana Flores Keeping My Dignity 1/4” steel round rod, yarn, paper, pen, scrapbooking tape, tiny bottles, glitter $525

Suzanne Horner Turquoise Afternoon Acrylic on canvas, birch natural frame, ceramic tag $ 900 Ronald C. Keller Acrylic Award 23

Joe Houde Il pranzo (The Lunch) Photgraph on paper $150

Marguerite Moreau McCarthy Key Lime Pie Acrylic on Canvas $800

Leigh Ann Irish Simple Pleasures Pastel on sanded paper $975

Sherri Lipman McCauley Violet13 Commercial cotton fabric, felt backing, and thread. $700

Joe Jackson Non Dit (unspoken) Oil on canvas $4800

Thelma Muraida Remedios Oil on canvas $900

Deborah Keller-Rihn Lone Star Reverie: Dreams of Love Photograph on German Etching Paper $400

Alexandra Nelipa Halloween night Acrylic on canvas $800

Taylor Kelsch The Alley oil painting, canvas $2000

Paola Nunez In the shade Gouache on paper $3200

Kraig Kiedrowski Mora Fields Pastel on La Carte pastel card $2600 Richard C.Arrendondo Award for Pastels

Jon O’Neal Polo Digital print $450

Katie Mangan LOOK Color Pencil on Canvas $500.00

April Ortiz Bottle ‘n Bag Liquor ‘n Guns, Uvalde, Texas Watercolor on Paper $5000 Ronald C. Keller Watercolor Award

Linda S. Manning The Portal Ceramic stoneware $1450 André & Virginia Bally 3-D Art Award

Benjamin Ortiz Pico de Gallo Oil on Wood $3500 Mr & Mrs Richard C. Traylor Award 24

Jill Pankey Line of Ladies Leaning Left Oil on Canvas $5000 Betty Rihn Keller Memorial Award

Judi Simon Tiffany’s Gifts Oil on board $1200 Barbara C. Kyse Award

Lenise Perez-Miller I Use To Be A Roller Derby Queen Clay, Underglazes, Glazes, Textiles $1500

Jennye Stubblefield Nomads Oil on birch panel $6700

Billy Rerick Mary Magdalene Contemplates Death Oil on canvas over panel $2000

Peter Szarmach A Shadow of Themselves Digital Photo Print $300

Kristina Salinas Up and Atom Oil, oil pastel, graphite, charcoal on canvas $3200

Melissa Torres Maiden Butterfly Oil $825

Richard Samuel For the Love of Frida Watercolor $7000 Beth Eidelberg Water Media Memorial Award

Dub Weathersby Tourist Ocotillo 100% cotton rag paper $300 Resa Wohlrabe Where Winged Horses Fly Acrylic and gold leafing on canvas $900

Alison Schuchs Madre Tierra Oil on Canvas $1400

Ernie Wood Appalachian Aerie Reduction Linocut, ink on paper $400

Suzette Schutze Lost Canopy II: A Reflection of Dying Forests Commercial clay, wild river clay, and a dead cedar root system $850 Hannah McManus Award for Textiles/Ceramics

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The San Antonio Art League was organized on March 13, 1912. It was founded by volunteers, and 110 years later continues as a beloved, an all-volunteer organization, carrying on the rich traditions and history of its founders while providing contemporary exhibition opportunities for its member artists. Volunteers also care for the extensive Permanent Collection, an invaluable record of the cultural and social artwork of the city and the region. The San Antonio Art League and Museum is a unique hybrid of past, present, and future. As a volunteer you can help in ways that match your skills and interests. Please join us by giving your time – it’s incredibly rewarding.

We’ve been rounding up art for San Antonio since 1912 – we need you on our team. www.saalm.org

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SAALM is the oldest arts organization in San Antonio and home to an extensive Permanent Collection of works by notable Texas artists.

Contributions are gratefully accepted on our secure website by the San Antonio Art League & Museum, and are tax-deductible under the terms of our 501 (c) (3) arts organization. Thanks so much for your support!

SAN ANTONIO ART LEAGUE & MUSEUM 130 KING WILLIAM SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78204 210-223-1140 WWW.SAALM.ORG

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