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Spindles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Lost Vegas
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boxed In
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersleeve states: “In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shady Hollow Motel, Green River, Utah, US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on three shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Walking Rain, Rio Hondo Mesa, New Mexico
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We're All Here
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Mother
By Hadar Sobol
Located in Dallas, TX
"This work was inspired by a true family story of a good friend of mine. It follows a complex relationship between a mom, a daughter, and a grandmother. It deals with the deep emotio...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Mother and Child
By William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "HP" at lower right, and inscribed "Eric Horsbrugh-Porter / Phyllida one week old" on verso.
The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 17 x 21 5/8 inches.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Inocencio X (I)
By Miguel Zapata
Located in Dallas, TX
This print is a hybrid relief, with embossing and chine collée on heavy paper. It is edition 14/20, it is signed "Miguel Zapata 88" and the paper size is 32 1/2 x 24 inches. The pric...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
The Hat Shop
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hazen Market, Hazen, Nevada, Alternate US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on four shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
154 Foot Sculpture That Never Was
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Calla Lily Planter in Madame Giri's Garden, St. Pierre-Toirac, France
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Night Fishing at Saint Maurice
By Emile Noirot
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Emile Noirot 1893" at lower right
overall dimensions, including frame, are 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
Category
1890s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Still Life with Studio Objects I
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Studio Objects II
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Studio Objects III
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Last Day of Winter
By Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Located in Dallas, TX
Miles Cleveland Goodwin says, "I don’t like to do things I don’t know." Not unlike the spirit of Southern literature and Delta blues music, there is an autobiographical nature to his...
Category
2010s Romantic Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Untitled
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve, born in Connecticut in 1970, earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and her M.F.A. from Bard College. Gildersleeve lives and works in Brooklyn, Ne...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Intermediating Semi-Articulated Mediations No. 3 (High Mesas, NM)
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
November Light, Cypress Creek, Wimberley, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Early Morning, Downtown Holly, Colorado, US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on five panels in three interlocking frames
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Casa Grande from Juniper Flats
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
East Fork Frio River, Winter
By Jane K. Starks
Located in Dallas, TX
Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Cypress Island, Blanco River, Wimberley, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Nudes with Still Life
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1950s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Girl from a Distant Future
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
This is egg-oil on Birch panel.
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Egg Tempera
April Light, Cypress Creek, Wimberley, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fort Burgwin, NM, Spring
By Jane K. Starks
Located in Dallas, TX
Jane Starks immerses herself in the history and archaeology of the places she loves to paint: wilderness areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. The paintings are begun and completed o...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Dimly Arising Approaches Comprehended
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saint Rose on a Bed of Glass
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Dallas, TX
This is lithographic crayon and gouache on paper
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Gouache
Moon and the Frittata
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eagle's Nest
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Eagle’s Nest" is Plate Number 37, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds provides the following quote from the artist regarding this print:
“The structure on the right is an architectural symbol for an eagle. It is also like a machine that is igniting the shape on the left. Below, the egg that is coming out of the chute is a child which will evolve into another architectural eagle...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Surface Habitation
By Chad Airhart
Located in Dallas, TX
ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings develop from two basic forces—chaos and control. I see this polarity of extremes as the ambivalent to and fro of decision and uncertainty, observatio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desertica 6
By Alex Corno
Located in Dallas, TX
Alex Corno achieves a sense of poetry in his use of proportion, rhythm, color, texture, and the dance between negative and positive spaces. Casting sentimentality aside, Corno is rel...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Dinner in the Sky
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category
1970s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Steve Calls Home on the Loneliest Phone in America, US Highway 50, Nevada
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic, paint can stir stick, consumer packaging, fabric, wood, graphite, charcoal, sandpaper and sand.
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Charcoal, Acrylic, Graphite
Contrapposto Series: Remembering
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Lightning Strike, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Front Elevation of Section 17
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Front Elevation of Section 17" is plate number 34, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds writes, “this plate can be seen as a culmination of the artist’s earlier uses of aquatint and as a new direction the artist will take in his compositions. In early plates such as ‘Joy,’ Plate No. 12, and ‘Do Not Touch,’ Plate No. 20, the artist has presented his designs to our unaccustomed eyes, either formally, by placing them on sculpture pedestals, or more abstractly, using smaller soft ground silhouettes. In later examples such as ‘One Little Stage,’ Plate No. 24, or ‘Heritage,’ Plate No. 25, we were brought closer to a direct interaction with the forms as they began to fill the plates with increasing sculptural and monumental qualities. It was still possible to maintain a more passive point of view because of the stage format of the compositions. In ‘Avenue 11,’ Plate No. 26, as we have seen, the artist unveils the true authority of his designs by placing them in our environment to compete with our reality of a familiar cityscape and to make us question our ideas of aesthetics and logic. In ‘Front Elevation’ we enter into and are confronted with these structures in their own massive landscape...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Earth
By Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Located in Dallas, TX
After a tour of duty in the US Navy, Miles Cleveland Goodwin earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, in 2007, and eventually returned to coastal Missi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storage Shed
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Grass Lyric and Tree Reflections, Village Creek, Silsbee, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Reflections
By Thomas Duncan Benrimo
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "Tom Benrimo" at lower right
The overall dimensions including the frame are 35 x 41 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Sculpture Framed by a Print
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Flower Shed
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mill Before Burning
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tree Rhythms and Reflections, Baxter Slough, Silsbee, Texas
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
First Presbyterian Church, Hillsboro, Ohio; US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on a shaped ragboard panel in an artist-made frame.
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Desiderium Head
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods, tools, and materials as a means to move beyond the boundaries of his tendencies. In his recent sculptures of heads...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
How Does Your Garden Grow
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersleeve states: “In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eastbound Freight Train, Colorado; US Highway 50
By Lloyd Brown
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on panel in an artist-made frame.
The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 8 1/2 x 12 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Anticipating Temporal Consequences
By Jim Woodson
Located in Dallas, TX
The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert landsc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roadie
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Roadeater
By Bob Stuth-Wade
Located in Dallas, TX
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade:
“Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rain with Blue Sculpture
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still of Night Waits, Pulse of Water's Time
By David A. Dreyer
Located in Dallas, TX
"The art I make does not tell a direct story, but prompts one to find things truly unseen. The works develop through intuitive improvisations, actions upon surface, and lines perpetu...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Ratama in Bloom
By Jim Stoker
Located in Dallas, TX
Texas artist Jim Stoker began developing his confetti-splatter technique of painting in 2000 to depict his interpretations of the unique flora along the Guadalupe River, as well as t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Light Streams, Taos, New Mexico
By David H. Gibson
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
