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About the Book
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists:
A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942, with a
forward by Ron Tyler, is the most
extensive and comprehensive reference book on artists who worked in Texas before
the modern era that began with World War II. Authors John and Deborah
Powers include some 3,800 artists in the 606-page book, which distills a great mass of information obtained over
fourteen years from archival collections, exhibition catalogs, reference works,
monographs, periodicals,
unpublished materials, and interviews and correspondence with living artists and
relatives of deceased artists.
In addition to extensive biographical and bibliographical
information, the book includes two important appendices. The first
describes the more popular institutions, inside and outside Texas, where Texas
artists obtained training in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The second appendix describes the more important and longer lasting museums,
associations, and exhibitions around which the art life of the state centered in
the years before 1942.
Dealers, collectors, historical societies, libraries,
researchers, and museums have found it exceedingly difficult to piece together
something about most of the artists who made up the mosaic of early Texas
art. Learning about them has become much easier and simpler with
the publication of Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists.
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