Selections from the Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art

Extended through April 25, 2010

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The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present A Sense of Place: Selections from the Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art.

The thirty-one works in A Sense of Place were especially selected to represent all regions of the vast and varied state of Texas, including the thriving arts colonies of San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin.  Important artists in the exhibition include Porfirio Salinas, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Julian Onderdonk and the early German-Texas artist Karl Hermann Lungkwitz, while the art in the exhibition ranges from the 1850s to the 1990s.  Styles vary, from Spanish and German influences of the earliest works to the modernist experiments of such important Texas artists and art teachers as Otis Dozier and DeForrest Hale Judd, with women artists in this retrospective represented by Emma Richardson Cherry and Florence Elliot McClung.

The exhibition is drawn from the much larger and important Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, begun in 2003 by the Nau family with the goal of gathering “a broad and diverse collection of important examples of Texas art.” As is evident in A Sense of Place, the Naus have succeeded admirably in that goal, and the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present this informative and educational exhibition on the art, history, people and places of the state of Texas.

Click on the thumbnails below to preview the exhibition.