Painting the Texas Landscape
Above: (DETAIL) L.O. (Louis Oscar) Griffith (American, 1875–1956). Untitled (Lone Tree at Sunset) (Detail). Oil on canvas mounted on board. 6 1/4 x 8 inches. Courtesy of Valley House Gallery, Dallas
September 19, 2010–January 2, 2011
ADMISSION:
FREE - TMA Members
$7 - Adults
$5 - Students & Seniors
FREE - Children 12 & Under
The Tyler Museum of Art is pleased to present the first major
exhibition on L.O. (Louis Oscar) Griffith (1875–1956), featuring over 70 paintings of beautiful and majestic landscapes of Texas. Griffith was a student and life-long friend of Frank Reaugh (1860–1945).
Griffith’s significant Texas oeuvre remained unknown to the museum world until recently, as he spent most of his working life in Indiana from 1922 until his death in 1956. However, he grew up in Dallas, took his first art lessons from Reaugh (who came to be regarded in later years as the “Dean of Texas Artists”), and traveled with him and his other
students on “sketching expeditions” into West Texas in the early part of last century. The artist participated in many exhibitions between 1892 and 1930 in Dallas, where he kept a winter studio, winning awards in the 1892 Texas State Fair as well as the Edgar B. Davis Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions in San Antonio in 1928 and 1929. A full color catalogue published by the TMA will accompany the exhibition.
This exhibition is organized by Tyler Museum of Art.
Signature Sponsor – Mr. & Mrs. Harold Cameron
Underwriter – Dr. Thomas & Debra Bochow
Patron – Ken & Debra Hamlett
Contributor – Target
Collectors’ Circle Sponsors – Mr. & Mrs. John Glass, Jr.;
A.W. Riter, Jr. Family Foundation; Robert M. Rogers
Foundation; Dr. & Mrs. Frank Ward
Corporate Sponsor – Genecov Group*
Exhibition Date: September 19, 2010–January 2, 2011
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The Art of George Tobolowsky
Above: (DETAIL) George Tobolowsky (American, b. 1949). My Signature Piece, 2010. Welded
stainless steel with lacquer. 79 x 112 x 55 inches. Courtesy of the artist
September 5-November 28, 2010
Admission is free.
Discarded steel and scrap metal are reborn in the
exhibition Substance & Form: The Art of George
Tobolowsky. Dallas sculptor George Tobolowsky is known for his dynamic repurposing of discarded metal pieces into energetic and compelling large-scale sculpture. The
materials he uses come from a variety of sources including
machine and heavy-duty fabrication shops. These industrial castoffs–fan blades, gears, coiling metal strips and more–are transformed by Tobolowsky, who uses the materials to create works that are both familiar and strange.
Rather than
constructing something that is a sum of its parts, Tobolowsky redefines form and function by building three-dimensional
abstractions, often suggesting anthropomorphic postures, and succeeds in elegantly proving that the sum is indeed more than the total of its parts. Works chosen for this exhibition will vary from those shown at the Grace Museum in Abilene. A full color catalogue accompanies this ehibition.
This exhibition is organized by Grace Museum, Abilene.
Sponsors for this exhibition include:
Contributor – Kay Arms
Collectors’ Circle Sponsors – Betty &?Dick Summers
Exhibition Date: September 5-November 28, 2010
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