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2010 Symposium on Early Texas Art and Texas Art Fair

April 16-18, 2010

OMNI Houston Hotel

Visit the Symposium section of CASETA's website for more information.

Early Texas Art Exhibitions

Pioneers in Modernism

Eight pioneering Texas Woman's University faculty members will be recognized by the Visual Arts Society of Texas in an exhibition titled "Pioneers in Modernism."

"Pioneers in Modernism" will feature the works of Marjorie Baltzel, Edith Brisac, Carlotta Corpron, Marie Delleney, Dorothy Antoinette (Toni) LaSelle, Thetis Lemmon, Mabel Maxcy, and Coreen Spellman. These women taught at TWU from the 1920s to the 1970s and were at the forefront of the Modernist movement - marked by the use of conceptual and abstract techniques - in Texas.

 Through February 28

Gough Gallery

400 East Hickory Street, Denton

Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Art 1850-1960
In honor of the El Paso Museum of Art's fiftieth anniversary of its founding it is presenting an exhibition of over 50 artists who worked in this region from 1850-1960. Primarily consisting of landscape paintings of the desert, this exhibition demonstrates the popularity of this subject inspired by the light of the Chihuahua desert. In addition to numerous, important desert vistas, also included are other works influenced by European modernism, portraits, still-life paintings and images of the city as it grew. Well-known artists such as Tom Lea, Fremont Ellis, Jose Cisneros, Peter Hurd and Manuel Acosta are included, but also under-recognized artists such as Lewis Teel, Hari Kidd, Jose Aceves, Eugene Thurston and Berla Emeree.

January 24 – March 14, 2010

El Paso Museum of Art