GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mrs. George K. Meyer (Sallie Griffis) was a founding member and officer of the Dallas Art Association. Beginning in 1909 and continuing through 1926, she was President of the Art Association for much longer than any other leader would be. More remarkable, for many of these years she also served as surrogate Director of the museum, assembling exhibitions, promoting funds, staging events to attract the public, conducting meetings of the Trustees. In these roles she contributed energy, devotion and distinction, and as all the minutes stated: "in all these affairs she outgeneraled herself in efficiency, in capability, and in great executive ability, while always presiding in a stately and gracious manner."
Mrs. Meyer led the negotiations in the move to the Fair Park Art Gallery and in securing the contract and support from the city. For some twenty years she was instrumental in gathering the annual exhibits for the State Fair of Texas and in making purchases from these shows for the permanent collection of the Art Association, often prompting funds from Dallas businessmen for these purchases. She started the idea of having annual exhibitions for Dallas artists with awards in many classifications.
Starting in 1915, the Dallas Art Association began holding annual exhibitions in downtown locations. Mrs. Meyer traveled to East coast museums and collectors to negotiate art loans and drum up support. These exhibitions were launched with "socials" where, it was written, members of the Dallas Art Association "dispensed a cup which cheered but did not inebriate." There were also dinners which were "veritable feasts of reason and flow of soul!" In addition to the social affairs, special lectures were presented by authorities from near and far away. Illustrated catalogues were available with supplementary price lists for paintings which were for sale. The introduction by Mrs. Meyer to one of these catalogues was titled "Nothing so stimulates an appreciation of art as the ownership of paintings," and continued: "Dallas is becoming recognized as the foremost art center of the Southwest. Every picture which is added to the collections of the people of Dallas strengthens our hold on that enviable position. Our American artists and dealers have generously lent their pictures, and if we show appreciation not only by our thanks but by our purchases they will be encouraged to send again."
In 1926, after seventeen years of continuous service as President of the Dallas Art Association, Mrs. George K. Meyer indicated her health would no longer permit her to hold that office and carry out the mounting obligations ahead. Mrs. Meyer was named President Emeritus, with profuse thanks for her great contributions to the Association since its founding in 1903 and for her activities in relation to the important annual exhibitions held at the State Fair of Texas.
Adapted from
Jerry Bywaters, Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas: The History of the Dallas Art Association and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1978), 6-8, 14.
NOTES
Changed the status of this note from routed to completed- June 15, 2016.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Update- March 7, 2017- I have made revisions and attempted to update this note with DAA image assets and an improved rule. I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.
RULE POSSIBILITY- Can I use rules to link two content chunks? For this note, I would want to link Mrs. Meyer to DAA and to DAA activities 1903-1926.
apply to content where content contains Dallas Art Association
apply to content where group equals content-chunk
(6 results: Texas Centennial Expo; Eisenlohr; African Art at the DMA; Dallas Art Association; Jerry Bywaters and TX Art; Foundation for the Arts)
When I try to combine these two targets, the RULES TESTER will not show all the results?
apply to content where content contains Dallas Art Association
apply to content where group equals content-chunk
apply to constituents where id equals 107814
(Two result tabs- Constituents and Content- but only the constituent record appears beneath each tab.)
Created constituent record and linked to objects as the person depicted.
Rule applies to the constituent record rather than the objects.
Since she is recorded as the person depicted in objects, I am removing the photo of her portrait as the image asset and can use the new object photography of Mora's portrait to illustrate this CC if needed. (Removing 24361881:UMO. [Caption] Portrait of Mrs. George K. Meyer by Francis Luis Mora. Source: Dallas Museum of Art).
Removed TMS tags 1923.2, 1933.23 as part of the October 2015 revision process.
Removed %rules pending because I have a rule that includes the constituent ID.
I am also removing the following information from archival assets:
200X.015- 90th Anniversary Timeline Photographs, Series 1, Item 10: Sallie Griffis Meyer (Mrs. George K. Meyer): DAA President and Volunteer Director 1909 - 1926. The 1916 history of the Art Association reports that in each year of her tenure, Mrs. Meyer 'outgeneraled herself in efficiency, in capability, in great executive ability.'
200X.015- 90th Anniversary Timeline Photographs, Series 1, Item 16- The new Adolphus Hotel where DAA President Sallie Meyer organized a series of large downtown exhibitions in the hotel's ballroom and Palm Court.
ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
IMAGE ASSETS
Bywaters, Seventy-five Years of Art in Dallas, exh cat. 1978- 12712585: UMO
WEB RESOURCES
ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
- Adolphus Hotel, 1914- 93922277: UMO
- Junior Ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas Art Association exhibition "First Annual Exhibition: Contemporary International Art" 1919- 93922292: UMO
- Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park, interior, c. 1915- 253389005: UMO
- Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park- 253391468: UMO
- Art Room at the Dallas Public Library, 259241118: UMO
- Dallas Public Library's Carnegie Building, 259240902: UMO
- Second Annual Exhibition of The Dallas Art Association, 12710545: UMO
- Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Dallas Art Association: 12710537: UMO and 12710529: UMO
- DAA Official Catalogue of the Collections, 1909. 12710561: UMO
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922. UMO: 12710641
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1916. UMO: 12710609
- Catalog of the collection of the Dallas Public Art Gallery, as assembled by the Dallas Art Association. Includes: foreword, list of artists and artworks; 12710753: UMO
- Interior of the gallery in the Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park; 93922712: UMO
- [uncataloged color postcard showing Carnegie Library- found in the "Restricted - Projects" category in Piction; two copies] 258184700: UMO, 258224367: UMO
FUN FACTS
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RULES
Apply to constituents where id equals 107814
apply to content where tag_name equals Dallas Art Association
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General Description
Mrs. George K. Meyer (Sallie Griffis) was a founding member and officer of the Dallas Art Association. Beginning in 1909 and continuing through 1926, she was President of the Art Association for much longer than any other leader would be. More remarkable, for many of these years she also served as surrogate Director of the museum, assembling exhibitions, promoting funds, staging events to attract the public, conducting meetings of the Trustees. In these roles she contributed energy, devotion and distinction, and as all the minutes stated: "in all these affairs she outgeneraled herself in efficiency, in capability, and in great executive ability, while always presiding in a stately and gracious manner."
Mrs. Meyer led the negotiations in the move to the Fair Park Art Gallery and in securing the contract and support from the city. For some twenty years she was instrumental in gathering the annual exhibits for the State Fair of Texas and in making purchases from these shows for the permanent collection of the Art Association, often prompting funds from Dallas businessmen for these purchases. She started the idea of having annual exhibitions for Dallas artists with awards in many classifications.
Starting in 1915, the Dallas Art Association began holding annual exhibitions in downtown locations. Mrs. Meyer traveled to East coast museums and collectors to negotiate art loans and drum up support. These exhibitions were launched with "socials" where, it was written, members of the Dallas Art Association "dispensed a cup which cheered but did not inebriate." There were also dinners which were "veritable feasts of reason and flow of soul!" In addition to the social affairs, special lectures were presented by authorities from near and far away. Illustrated catalogues were available with supplementary price lists for paintings which were for sale. The introduction by Mrs. Meyer to one of these catalogues was titled "Nothing so stimulates an appreciation of art as the ownership of paintings," and continued: "Dallas is becoming recognized as the foremost art center of the Southwest. Every picture which is added to the collections of the people of Dallas strengthens our hold on that enviable position. Our American artists and dealers have generously lent their pictures, and if we show appreciation not only by our thanks but by our purchases they will be encouraged to send again."
In 1926, after seventeen years of continuous service as President of the Dallas Art Association, Mrs. George K. Meyer indicated her health would no longer permit her to hold that office and carry out the mounting obligations ahead. Mrs. Meyer was named President Emeritus, with profuse thanks for her great contributions to the Association since its founding in 1903 and for her activities in relation to the important annual exhibitions held at the State Fair of Texas.
Adapted from
Jerry Bywaters, Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas: The History of the Dallas Art Association and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1978), 6-8, 14.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
- Adolphus Hotel, 1914- 93922277: UMO
- Junior Ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas Art Association exhibition "First Annual Exhibition: Contemporary International Art" 1919- 93922292: UMO
- Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park, interior, c. 1915- 253389005: UMO
- Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park- 253391468: UMO
- Art Room at the Dallas Public Library, 259241118: UMO
- Dallas Public Library's Carnegie Building, 259240902: UMO
- Second Annual Exhibition of The Dallas Art Association, 12710545: UMO
- Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Dallas Art Association: 12710537: UMO and 12710529: UMO
- DAA Official Catalogue of the Collections, 1909. 12710561: UMO
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1922. UMO: 12710641
- Dallas Art Association, Official Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in the Art Gallery at Fair Park, 1916. UMO: 12710609
- Catalog of the collection of the Dallas Public Art Gallery, as assembled by the Dallas Art Association. Includes: foreword, list of artists and artworks; 12710753: UMO
- Interior of the gallery in the Textile and Fine Arts Building, Fair Park; 93922712: UMO
- [uncataloged color postcard showing Carnegie Library- found in the "Restricted - Projects" category in Piction; two copies] 258184700: UMO, 258224367: UMO
Web Resources
Notes
Changed the status of this note from routed to completed- June 15, 2016.
Adding "draft" tag back to note, Dec 19, 2016, as part of the revised harvest/route procedure. This note will be pulled into GDrive and manually moved to Queta's folders for final review. Update- January 18, 2017- Adding #routed tag so that I can easily keep track of this note in Evernote to confirm that it is eventually pushed into GDrive. As of January 18, 2017 the content is in Brain but not in GDrive so I am unable to finish revisions and mark it complete in Evernote or move the GDoc to Queta's folder.
Update- March 7, 2017- I have made revisions and attempted to update this note with DAA image assets and an improved rule. I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.
RULE POSSIBILITY- Can I use rules to link two content chunks? For this note, I would want to link Mrs. Meyer to DAA and to DAA activities 1903-1926.
apply to content where content contains Dallas Art Association
apply to content where group equals content-chunk
(6 results: Texas Centennial Expo; Eisenlohr; African Art at the DMA; Dallas Art Association; Jerry Bywaters and TX Art; Foundation for the Arts)
When I try to combine these two targets, the
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