Texas Tour

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Since the early 1800’s, artists have derived inspiration from the diversity and grandeur of the Texas landscape. From the mysterious cypress groves in Caddo Lake to the infinitely diverse rock formations along the New Mexico border; from the flatlands along the Red River to the grass tufted sand dunes along the Gulf Coast; and the endless diversity of landforms and flora in-between, the Texas landscape has provided endless artistic subject matter.

To honor both the contributions of Texas artists and to document the beauty and diversity of the Texas landscape, Valley House Gallery is pleased to present, Texas Tour: 100 Years of the Texas Landscape (1908 – 2008.) To start our tour, we begin with Louis Oscar Griffith, an artist who traveled with Frank Reaugh on his summer sketching trips between 1905 and 1909. Griffith produced a series of small, beautiful oil sketches of the West Texas landscape. The tour ends with works produced this year by contemporary artists, Bob Stuth-Wade’s paintings in Big Bend, Gail Norfleet’s Marfa monotypes, and Lu Ann Barrow’s East Texas berry picking. Chad Airhart adds expressionistic paintings of what we wish every Texas landscape did not have, ants.

Among the Early Texas artists included in Texas Tour are Fred Darge, Otis Dozier, Edward G. Eisenlohr, William Elliott, Constance Forsyth, Michael Frary, L. O. Griffith, Florence McClung, Eloise Polk McGill, Merritt Mauzey, Josephine Oliver, Everett Spruce, Franz Strahalm, Olin Travis, Charles Umlauf, Velox Ward, and Clara McDonald Williamson.

Among the contemporary artists are Chad Airhart, Lu Ann Barrow, Lloyd Brown, Lilian Garcia-Roig, David H. Gibson, Cindi Holt, Billy Keen, William B. Montgomery, Gail Norfleet, Jane Starks, Jim Stoker, Bob Stuth-Wade, Karl Umlauf, Mary Vernon, Anne C. Weary, Glenn Whitehead, and Jim Woodson.

Texas Sculptors have been invited to show new works in the gallery and garden including, Deborah Ballard, Kathy Boortz, Mike Cunningham, David Dreyer, David Everett, Phil Evett, and Sherry Owens.

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Event posted Sept. 29, 2008
Last updated Sept. 29, 2008