The Dallas Nine was a group of Dallas, Texas artists active between 1928 and 1945.[1][2][3]

Members

The group's core consisted of nine men who had applied to decorate the Hall of State in 1936: Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass and Perry Nichols.[1] Other members in the 1930s and 1940s included Charles T. Bowling, Russell Vernon Hunter, Merritt T. Mauzey, Florence McClung, Allie Tennant, Dorothy Austin, Don Brown, and Lloyd Goff.[4] The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture.[1] Works by many of these artists are held at the Bywaters Special Collections at Southern Methodist University.[5]

Exhibitions

Nine of the group's members exhibited in 1932 at the Dallas Public Art Museum, in a show titled “Nine Young Dallas Artists.[6][7] They exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and in the 1939 New York World's Fair. A special issue of Art Digest featured their work.[8] In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art presented the exhibition Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "TSHA | Dallas Nine". www.tshaonline.org.
  2. 1 2 Art, Dallas Museum of (1985). "Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945 [Photograph DMA_1367-21]". Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945, February 3-March 17, 1985.
  3. ↑ Buenger, Walter Louis; Calvert, Robert A. (1991). Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-490-3.
  4. ↑ "Artists & Designers - Dallas Nine - DMA Collection Online". collections.dma.org. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  5. ↑ "Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper - SMU". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  6. ↑ "ART A PICTURE OF THE DALLAS NINE". D Magazine.
  7. ↑ Southwest Review. Southern Methodist University Press. 1985.
  8. ↑ "Artists & Designers - Dallas Nine - DMA Collection Online". collections.dma.org.
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