Mar 13, 2016
-\JURY OF SELECTION AND AWARDS
ALINE B. SAARINEN, special art critic for the " N ew York T imes"
FOREWORDI was happy to be asked to serve as "one-man" juror for the 1954 Texas Annual,
because I have long consid ered it the most int eresting of the state shows. I was particularly fortunate this year in that there seemed to be an extraordinary number of verygood entri es. It is also a fascinating challenge for an our-of-starer to judge a state show,for he approaches it with none of the prejud ices of familiarity or of knowing esrablished reputations.
What are the juror's crit eria? To seek those paintings which, in his best judgment ,seem to make a fresh and personal statement, to be technically able with the leastamount of "dead canvas" and in which expression and means reinforce each other.
As a one-man juror , I had no one with whom to compromise but myself. Naturally, in a selection large enough to be fair and representative, not all the paintingsdo come up to one's top stand ards. But ir is the hope that those which are obviouslybelow the top two dozen are in one way or another superior to those which were rejected.
Two parenthetical notes : I felt even in the most awkward entries such a sincerityand devotion to painting that the eliminatio ns were nor made heartlessly. I balked atassigning specific prizes of so-and-so much to th is or that painting, and simply singledour those eleven objects in the exhibition which I felt most deserving of special recognition, both for cash prizes and for the consideration of comm ittees deciding on StateFair Purchases and the Onderdonk Memorial Purchase. After these decisions were madethe other paintings recommended received cash awards as designated in the prize listof th is catalogue.
Not everyone will agree with the one-man-jury choices. I did the most conscientiousand honest job I knew. I do not apologize for personal taste - for that , unadult erated,is both the virtue and vice of the one-man-jury system. But to those art ists whosework I inevitably underestimated, I offer not only my apologies but my regrets atmy own myopia.
On the Cotler:
Aline B. SaarinenBloomfield Hills, Michigan
"Boy in M exico," oil pai11ting by CEClL L. CASBlER, $500 State Fair of T exasPurchase Prize
Dallas Museum of Art Library
NOTE ON THE EXHIBITIONIn addition to revealing an unusually high quality attested to "offi cially" by Ju ror
Aline B. Saarinen, the 16th Texas Annual has some other points worth noting.
The num ber of entries remains about the same, but many completely "new" andable artists show themselves. For this very reason, the "one-lady" juror decided to admitonly a single example by an artist, thereby giving good new talent its deserved chance.
As a special feature, a dozen or so Texas artists now living elsewhere were invitedto send one work which would be exempt from jury action and inelig ible for prizes,only purchase consideration .
Finally, for this Texas Annual exhibition and probably for othe rs to come, theFort Worth Art Museum joins the "charter member" art museums of Ho uston, SanAntonio and Dallas as a sponsor of the exhibit . This action adds further to the largeaudience for Texas artis ts and emphasizes the importance of this region al exh ibit.
Exhibition CalendarThe Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio
The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston
Fort Worth Art Center
October 9 through October 31
November 7 through November 28
December 5 through December 26
January 11 through February 9, 1955
"Summer," oil painting by OTIS DOZIER, $500 Julian Onderdonk Memorial Purchase
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS PURCHASE of $500 for the permanent collectionof the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
CECIL LANG CASEBIER, San Antonio for oil pa inting, "Boy in Mexico"
JULIAN ONDERDONK MEMORIAL PURCHASE of $500 for the San AntonioArt League collection
OTIS DOZIER, Dallas for oil painting, "Summer"
STATE FAIR OF T EXAS P URCHASE of $400 for th e perm anent collecti onof the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
DON SNELL, Austin for oil painting, "T he Sun Is th e Source"
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS PURCHASE of $100 for the permanent collectionof th e Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
] . RAYMOND FLETCHER, San Antonio for painting, "War Dance"
'The Sun Is the Source," oil painting by DO N SNELL, $400 State Fair of T exasPurchase Prize
" 117ar Dance," painting
by ]. RAYMOND FLETCHER ,
$50 San Antonio Men of Art
Guild A ward
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION AWARD of $150KEITH McINTYRE, San Antonio for oil painting, "T he Quarry"
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD of $100DAN WINGREN, Austin for oil painting, "W eeds"
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD* of $100KELLY FEARING, Austin for oil painting, "Landscape with Peacock "
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD* of $100DAVID ADICKES, Houston for oil painting, "Risque-Tout"
FOLEY'S OF HOUSTON AWARD of $100PETER VATSURES, Dallas for oil painting, "Eclipse"
SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION AWARD of $100BILL BOMAR, Fort Worth for watercolor, "Austin Strata"
STRAUS FRANK COMPANY AWARD of $100WILFRED HIGGINS, Dallas for oil painting, "Crimson Landscape"
SAN ANTONIO MEN OF ART GUILD AWARD of $50J- RAYMOND FLETCHER, San Antonio for painting, "War Dance"
*Donated by the Humble Oil and R efinin g Company
(T he Dallas A rt Association's $100 award, to be announced at the close of theDallas Museum of Fin e Arts showing, w ill be made t o the work receiving the m ostpublic votes during the exhibit ion period. )
Catalogue of the ExhibitionDAVID ADICKES, Houston
1. Risque-T out (oil)
JIM ADKINS, Aust in
2. Ri verbank in March(watercolor )
H ERI BERT BARTSCHT, Dallas
3. Boy with Fish (wood)
REV EAU BASSETT, Dallas
4. N ovember (oil)
ED BEARDEN, Dall as
5. West Texas Wheat Field (oil)
REID BEYER, Dallas'
6. Syncopati on (casein)
BILL BOMAR, Fort Worth
7. Austin Strata (watercolor)
JAMES W. BOYNTON, Fort Worth
8. Strata: 1954 (casein)
DAVID BROWNLOW, Fort Worth
9. Music (o il)
BARBARA CAMP, Pecos
10. Heart of the Dragon(black Belgian m arbl e)
SCOT T CARPENTER, Dallas
11. Pavane (oil)
FREDERICK CARTER, Hous ton
12. Philosophical T abl es (tempera)
CECIL LANG CASEBIER,San Antonio
13. Boy in Mexico (oi l)
PAULL CASTL EBERRY, Amar illo
14. Maniacal (watercolor and ink)
PAT H ALSALL COLVILLE, Dallas
15. Ju an (oil)
"The Quarry," oil pai11ting by KEIT H McINTYR E, $150 Fort Wo rth Art AssociationAward
"Wee ds," oil painting by DA N W INGREN, $100 Mmeum of Fine Arts of HoustonAward
PAT COOKSTON, Dallas
16. Umbrellas (egg tempera)
MARIA C. CROSS, Fort Worth
17. W atermelons(gouache and wa tercolor)
BEN L. CULWELL, Dallas
18. untitled (o il , duco and wire)
BOB CUNNINGHAM, Fort Worth
19. Oil Steel (oil)
LEONARD DE LONGA, Fort Worth
20. Silver Shadows (oil)
OTIS DOZIER, Dallas
21. Summer (oi l)
ROB ERT C. ELLIS, Jacksboro
22. Market (oil)
KELLY FEARING, Austin
23. Landscape with Peacock (oil)
J. RAYMOND FLETCHER,San Antonio
24. W ar Dance (mixed m edia)
MARGARET FLOWERS, San Antoni o
25. Flowers (duco)
SEYMOUR FOGEL, Austin
26. Dawn Flight (oi l)
MICHAEL FRARY, San Antonio
27. StilI Life (oil)
J AMES L. FRAZER, San Antonio
28. Good Friday (oi l)
JOHN FRAZ ER, Longv iew
29. Union Square (oi l)
HENRI GADBOIS, H ouston
30. West Beach - Galveston (oil)
EVELYN GAY, W aco
31. Time: Dream (mahogany)
JOHN GUERIN, Austin
32. Low Tide (oil)
ERV HARRISON, Fort Worth
33. Armored Figure - Reclining(oil)
JOAN HIERHOLZER, San Antonio
34. Shilos (oil)
WILFRED HIGGINS, Dallas
35. Crimson Landscape (oil)
"Landscape with Peacock," oil painting byKELLY FEARING,
$100 Museum of Fine Arts
of Houston A ward
HERBERT HUGHES, Fort Worth
36. The Dark Pool ( oil)
DEFORREST H. JUDD, Dallas
37. Caddo Lake Still Life (oil)
DAVID G. LEDOUX, Dallas
38. About Trees wi th T hree Suns(pastel and tem pera)
AMY FREEMAN LEE, San An tonio
39. Variation No. 1 on a Themeby Robert Frost (watercolor)
WALTER L. LENGEL, Dallas
40. La Sortie (oil)
WILLIAM LESTER, Austin
41. Animal Theme (oil)
LEONARD M. LOGAN III,Fort Worth
42. Obsession (oil)
ROBERT LOTH, Dallas
43. Blueprint (oil)
PHILIP MAGINOT, San Angelo
44. Market - Cuernavaca (oil)
KEITH McINTYRE, San Antonio
45. The Quarry (oil)
FRED MITCHAM, Dallas
46. Yellow Shacks (oil)
MEL MOORE, Fort Worth
47. Sound Out of Silence (oil)
JULIA I. ORYNSKI, Dallas48. Combat (oil)
FELISA A. OWENS, Fort Worth
49. Pensamiento (stone)
LEM PALMER, Houston
50. Soliloquy (egg tempera)
THELMA B. PARK, Fort Worth
51. untitled (watercolor)
LEON PLEDGER, Dallas
52. Time Drawn (metal)
DOROTHY POULOS, Dallas
53. Inside a Greenhouse (oil)
ROBERT PREUSSER, Houston
54. Flight (oil)
RICHARD T. PYLE, Dallas
55. Ice (oil)
RONNIE RABB, Greenville
56. Repetition of Thought (oil)
BILL REILY, San Antonio
57. Owl in the Moonlight (oil)
JERRY ROMOTSKY, Dallas
58. Prepared Convulsions (oil)
EVALINE SELLORS, Fort Worth
59. Poetess (walnut)
I.,.J
"Risque-Tout," oil painting by DAVID ADIe KES, $100 Museum of Fine Arts ofHouston Award
JANET SHOOK, San Antonio
60. Las Palomas (mixed media)
CLOVER V. SHORE, Fort Worth
61. #27-A (oil)
JERROLD SIMON, Austin
62. Taurine Demon (oil)
DON SNELL, Austin
63. The Sun Is the Source (oil)
JOAN B. STAYART, Dallas
64. The Red Hat (oil)
JAMES A. STERRlTT, Fort Worth
65. Spring Breeze (hammered andenameled copper)
MARGARET STITES, San Angelo
66. Carol (terra cotta)
RUTH M. TEARS, Dallas
67. Thistle (casein)
JACK TINKLE, San Antonio
68. The Harbor (oil)
CHESTER J. TONEY, San Antonio
69. Levee Basin (casein)
LIRL TREUTER, Fort Worth
70. Fruit Interiors (pastel)
McKIE TROTTER, Fort Worth
71. Fortress in Spring (oil)
JEAN TURBEVILLE, Dallas72. Pine Forest (oil)
JANET TURNER, Nacogdoches
73. Stranded Roots (watercolor)
CHARLES UMLAUF, Austin
74. Negress (t erra cotta)
'/Austi« Strata," watercolor
by BILL BOMAR,
$100 Scblum berger Well SurueyingCorporation Award
"Eclipse," oil painting by PETER VATSURES, $100 Foley's of H ouston Award
BROR UTTER, Fort Worth
75. Encounter (oil)
PETER VATSURES, Dallas
76. Eclipse (oil)
SELMA WALDMAN, Austin
77. The Man Who Died(after Lawrence) (oil)
CHARLES T. WILLIAMS, Fort Worth
78. Ancient Vestige (welded steel)
CLARA WILLIAMSON, Dallas
79. Blacksmith Shop (oil)
ROWLAND WILSON, Dallas
80. Bienville St. Barbershop(watercolor and gouache)
DAN WINGREN, Austin
81. Weeds (oil)
"Crimson Landscape," oil pai ntin g by WILFRED HIGGINS, $100 Straus FrankCompany Award
Because so many former Texas artists have achieved success in newly-adoptedresidences across the United States and in foreign countries, it seems a good time to
invite them to send a work of art to be exhibited with the opening of the 16th TexasAnnual Painting and Sculptu re Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Sincethe exhibit is for Texas residents, these invitational works were not eligible forjury awards.
ROSALIE BERKOWITZ, New York
"Georg ian Spring" (oil)
KATHERINE T. BURNSIDE
Parkersburg, West Virginia"Refuse" (watercolor)
JAMES BROOKS, New York
"No. 38" (oil)
GENE CHARLTON, New York"T he Sea" (oil)
XAVIER GONZALEZ, New York
"Fish Pond" (oil )
MORRIS GRAVES, New York
"W inter 's Leaves" (tempera)
ALEXANDRE HOGUE, Tulsa
"T rout Stream " (oil over casein)
JACK B. KELLAM, Danville, Kentucky
"Journey of the Magi" (oil)
JOSEPH GLASCO, Taos, New Mexico WILLIAM M. McVEY, Cleveland"Ceremony" (oil) "T hinker" (stoneware)
LLOYD L. GOFF, New York"Mediterranean Cabanas" (oil)
RUDOLF STAFFEL, Philadelphia
"Cows # 2" (watercolor)