Over the last several weeks, I have participated in several events related to the appreciation and study of early Texas Art. During the first weekend of this month, I attended the annual meeting of CASETA, the Center for the Advancement of Early Texas Art. This annual meeting attracts scholars, art historians, artists, and art collectors for several days of meetings, papers, and presentations. A sale featuring early Texas art operates concurrently with the symposium. This year’s meeting in Austin featured presentations by a talented group of scholars and collectors that included Ted Pillsbury, Sam Ratcliff, Ellen Niewyk, Francine Carraro, Bonnie Campbell, J. P. Bryan and others, all of whom examined a wide spectrum of themes dealing with early Texas art. The following week I delivered a talk entitled “Creating Texas Regionalism” to an enthusiastic audience at the Heard-Craig Center for the Arts in McKinney
. My talk, as seen at the right, surveyed the regional movement of the 1930s across the spectrum of Texas literature, architecture, art, and sculpture, linking together the regional viewpoints of writers, architects, and artists including J. Frank Dobie, David R. Williams, O’Neil Ford, Walter P. Webb, Jerry Bywaters, and others. Yesterday, I attended a gallery talk given by A. C. “Ace” Cook, one of the state’s most enthusiasti
c collectors of Texas Art. (At left, Ace Cook is being introduced.) The University of North Texas Art Gallery has opened an exhibition of from his Hoc Shop Collection, which is usually on display at his Ice Cream Parlor, the Bull Ring, in the Stockyards Section of Fort Worth. Over recent decades, Cook has assembled one of the most interesting collections of early Texas art that is currently in private hands.
. My talk, as seen at the right, surveyed the regional movement of the 1930s across the spectrum of Texas literature, architecture, art, and sculpture, linking together the regional viewpoints of writers, architects, and artists including J. Frank Dobie, David R. Williams, O’Neil Ford, Walter P. Webb, Jerry Bywaters, and others. Yesterday, I attended a gallery talk given by A. C. “Ace” Cook, one of the state’s most enthusiasti
c collectors of Texas Art. (At left, Ace Cook is being introduced.) The University of North Texas Art Gallery has opened an exhibition of from his Hoc Shop Collection, which is usually on display at his Ice Cream Parlor, the Bull Ring, in the Stockyards Section of Fort Worth. Over recent decades, Cook has assembled one of the most interesting collections of early Texas art that is currently in private hands.
