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| Light and Vicki Cummins with the organizers of the exhibit Tam Kiehnhoff and Randolph Tibbets |
Vicki Cummins and I attended a special reception held in the Art Gallery of the Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library on September 29th to mark the opening of this exhibit, entitled "Texas Modernism[s]: Houston/Dallas in the 1930s." Sponsored by the Houston Early Texas Art Group, the exhibit compared the various similarities and differences between regional artists in Houston and Dallas during the 1930s.
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| Some of the Houston Artists in the Exhibit |
As Glasstire has noted of this exhibit: "By showing side-by-side the work of Cherry-McNeill Group and Dallas Nine artists, all working seriously as Modernists in Texas in the 1930s, the exhibition intends to explore the looks and philosophical underpinnings of two seminal aspects of the art history of Texas, which have strongly influenced later developments in their two cities, as well as the state in general. At the same time, the exhibition will serve as a demonstration that Modernism, when it came to America, was not limited exclusively to the art centers of the East and that it was not a single thing, even in a relatively contained region such as Texas. It was, rather a liberating force that could take its disciples along markedly different routes toward the shared ideal of creating a modern art for America.”
