Dallas Nine

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

Members

The group had up to 25 members over its lifetime, including Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass and Perry Nichols.[1] The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture.[1]

Exhibitions

Nine of the group's members exhibited in 1932 at the Dallas Public Art Museum, in a show titled “Nine Young Dallas Artists.[4][5] They exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and the in 1939 New York World's Fair. A special issue of Art Digest featured their work.[6] In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art presented the exhibition Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945.[2]

References
  1. "TSHA | Dallas Nine". www.tshaonline.org.
  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. "ART A PICTURE OF THE DALLAS NINE". D Magazine.
  5. Southwest Review. Southern Methodist University Press. 1985.
  6. "Artists & Designers - Dallas Nine - DMA Collection Online". collections.dma.org.
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