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Otis DozierModern Early Texas Western Wilderness Landscape Scene of Two Men and a Hog1944
1944
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Modern Western wilderness scene by early Texas artist Otis Dozier. The work features two men kneeling and cleaning a hog set against a desert landscape. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a wooden frame with a cream matting.
Visible Dimensions Without Frame: H 14 in. x W 19 in.
Artist Biography: Otis Dozier (1904-1987) was raised on a cotton farm between Forney and Mesquite, developing a love for art and nature at a young age. After his family moved into Dallas in 1920, he received his earliest art training from well-known instructor Vivian Aunspaugh. Following his 1925 graduation from Forest High School, Dozier continued his art studies at the Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis and Tom Stell. Also, during the 1920s, he accompanied his parents and three sisters on at least three automobile trips through the American West, familiarizing himself with the region that he would later depict in his art.
Six of Dozier’s works were included in 1932’s “Exhibition of Young Dallas Painters”; a number of these artists, including Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, John Douglass, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, and Everett Spruce, would go on to form such significant local organizations as the Dallas Artists League and the Lone Star Printmakers. Dozier also was represented in the Texas Centennial Exposition’s art exhibit during the summer of 1936.
Spread 29, Sketchbook 1, 1937In the summer of 1938, he won a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, one of the most renowned art schools in the trans-Mississippi West in the 1930s, where he studied with Boardman Robinson. The next year he became Robinson's assistant, a position he held until 1945.
Following his 1940 marriage to Velma Davis, the couple explored much of Colorado, with Dozier producing more than 3,000 sketches of mountains and mining towns in the course of his career.
In 1945, the Doziers returned to Dallas at the invitation of Jerry Bywaters, where he taught for a few years at SMU and at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School until 1970. Dozier began to develop a semiabstract style, using looser brushwork and more brilliant colors than he had during the Regionalist era.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the Doziers’ international travels prompted him to include Indian and Asian subjects in his work. Although Dozier moved away from the anecdotal subject matter of his 1930s work for several decades, in the final years of his life he returned to childhood roots and early interests, as he again executed depictions of Texas rural life and the natural world.
He and Velma Dozier played significant roles in the cultural life of Dallas until their deaths in the late 1980s. The Dozier Foundation, established after their deaths, donated Otis Dozier’s sketchbooks to the Dallas Museum of Art and the rest of the couple’s papers to SMU’s Hamon Arts Library, where they are held as part of the Bywaters Special Collections.
- Creator:Otis Dozier (1904-1987, American)
- Creation Year:1944
- Dimensions:Height: 22.75 in (57.79 cm)Width: 28.63 in (72.73 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Houston, TX
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Otis Dozier
Born in Forney, Texas, Otis Marion Dozier was raised on a farm in Mesquite, Texas. Dozier was a muralist, potter, lithographer, sculptor, and painter. Dozier was a member of a group of Texas regionalist artists known as the "Dallas Nine." His surroundings in Texas became the focus of much of his art. Dozier’s first artistic training took place in the early 1920’s when his family moved to Dallas. He studied under Vivian Aunspaugh, Cora Edge, and Frank Reaugh. His early subject matter was often the plight of farmers affected by the Great Depression. In the 1930’s, Dozier became a member of the Dallas Artists League, and he taught at the Dallas School of Creative Arts. He was commissioned to paint murals at Texas A&M University and at Texas post offices in Arlington, Giddings, and Fredricksburg. His works were displayed at various exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1933, the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936, the Denver Art Museum in 1943, and Dallas Allied Arts exhibitions in 1932, 1935, 1937, and 1946. In 1938, Dozier studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Dozier served as Boardman Robinson’s assistant at the Fine Arts Center in the 1940’s. The Rocky Mountains became the focus of much of Dozier’s art, as he made over 3,000 sketches of Colorado ghost towns and mountains. When he returned to Dallas, he taught drawing at Southern Methodist University from 1945-1948. From the mid 1940’s until 1970, he taught drawing and painting at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibited: “Dallas Nine,” 1932; Texas State Fair Exhib., 1933; Dallas Allied Artists, 1932 (Kiest Purchase Prize), 1935, 1937 & 1946; Southwestern Art Assn., 1948 (prize); New Orleans Arts and Crafts, 1948 (prize); MoMA traveling exhib., 1933; Texas Centennial Expo, 1936; GGE, 1939; Denver Art Mus., 1943 (prize); AIC, 1944, 1946; WMAA, 1940, 1945; Carnegie Inst., 1946; Pasadena, CA, 1946; Dallas Allied Artists, 1946; solo shows, Witte Mem. Mus., 1948; Corcoran Gal, 1951, 1953; Dallas Mus. Fine Arts, 1956. Works held: Univ. Nebraska; Dallas Mus. Fine Arts; Denver Art Mus.; Metrop. Mus. of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum; Newark Mus.; A. & M. College, Bryan; Witte Mus.; Mus. FA, Houston. Further Reading: Pikes Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: Colorado Springs, 1989.; The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, Peggy and Harold Samuels, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976.; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. I. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. ©David Cook Galleries, LLC
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