2007.15.62 Clara McDonald Williamson, Ropin' the Range


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  

NOTES
Object file has been reviewed
TMS record has been reviewed.
No education file for Williamson found.

Created in 1957

Acquisition justification for the Barrett collection already pulled in an object draft for Fred Darge. Would be good to have a CC for this subsection of the TX Art collection.

Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection: The Art of Texas and the Southwest Dr. Edmund Pillsbury and Dr. Richard Bretell, Meadows museum, Dallas, 2004.----FIX FORMATTING

Exhibitions:
Lone Star Legacy: The Barrett Collection of Early Texas Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 5/27/2007-11/18/2007
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection—The Art of Texas and Switzerland, Meadows Museum, 11/24/2004-1/30/2005
Aunt Clara: The Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson. travelled, at Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 5/24/1967-6/25/1967

Added former exhibition title for Aunt Clara exhibtion- Roping on the Range

Letter in object file regarding a television program on Clara Williamson to be presented by ABC-TV on its "Directions-67" series on Sunday, October 22, 1967. Title of program, "Aunt Clara."

Parent: Sixty-two works of early Texas art, Dallas Museum of Art, Barrett Collection

Publication: 
Donald and Margaret Vogel, Aunt Clara; the Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson. Austin, the University of Texas Press for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966. (Ill. b/w, p. 50; text pp. 49, 51)


Provenance Source: [1] See letter.. Lent to Aunt Clara Exhibition 20 Nov 1966- 24 June 1967 with credit line- Dr. M.C. Overton III, Galveston; letter addressed to Overton regarding the painting and Williamson being featured in upcoming tv episode; letter dated October 2, 1967
Artist/designers

Cultures

Geography 
Place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826

Process/materials
Oil on panel

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms
cowboy boots
cowboy hats
fields
horses
longhorn: DMA
oxen
plains
saddles
horseback riding
cattle


RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE
By 1966: M.C. Overton III, Galveston, Texas [1]
By 1995: Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995–2007: Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas, purchased from above
From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Richard and Nona Barrett

[1] The main source for this provenance is information previously catalogued in TMS.

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ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
See catalogue in PICTION- Catalog from the exhibition, 'Clara Williamson: Paintings,' February 29-March 21, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images, biographical note.

FUN FACTS
  • In 1948 the "Art Digest" called this work "a painting to rival [Edward] Hicks' 'Peaceable Kingdom,'" a version of which is on view in the American galleries.

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Fun Facts
  • In 1948 the "Art Digest" called this work "a painting to rival [Edward] Hicks' 'Peaceable Kingdom,'" a version of which is on view in the American galleries.

Archival Resources
See catalogue in PICTION- Catalog from the exhibition, 'Clara Williamson: Paintings,' February 29-March 21, 1948, held at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Includes: list of artworks in the exhibition, selected images, biographical note.

Web Resources
 

Notes
Object file has been reviewed
TMS record has been reviewed.
No education file for Williamson found.

Created in 1957

Acquisition justification for the Barrett collection already pulled in an object draft for Fred Darge. Would be good to have a CC for this subsection of the TX Art collection.

Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection: The Art of Texas and the Southwest Dr. Edmund Pillsbury and Dr. Richard Bretell, Meadows museum, Dallas, 2004.----FIX FORMATTING

Exhibitions:
Lone Star Legacy: The Barrett Collection of Early Texas Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 5/27/2007-11/18/2007
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection—The Art of Texas and Switzerland, Meadows Museum, 11/24/2004-1/30/2005
Aunt Clara: The Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson. travelled, at Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 5/24/1967-6/25/1967

Added former exhibition title for Aunt Clara exhibtion- Roping on the Range

Letter in object file regarding a television program on Clara Williamson to be presented by ABC-TV on its "Directions-67" series on Sunday, October 22, 1967. Title of program, "Aunt Clara."

Parent: Sixty-two works of early Texas art, Dallas Museum of Art, Barrett Collection

Publication: 
Donald and Margaret Vogel, Aunt Clara; the Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson. Austin, the University of Texas Press for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966. (Ill. b/w, p. 50; text pp. 49, 51)


Provenance Source: [1] See letter.. Lent to Aunt Clara Exhibition 20 Nov 1966- 24 June 1967 with credit line- Dr. M.C. Overton III, Galveston; letter addressed to Overton regarding the painting and Williamson being featured in upcoming tv episode; letter dated October 2, 1967
Artist/designers

Cultures

Geography 
Place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826

Process/materials
Oil on panel

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms
cowboy boots
cowboy hats
fields
horses
longhorn: DMA
oxen
plains
saddles
horseback riding
cattle


RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE
By 1966: M.C. Overton III, Galveston, Texas [1]
By 1995: Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995–2007: Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas, purchased from above
From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Richard and Nona Barrett

[1] The main source for this provenance is information previously catalogued in TMS.

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Southwest (general region/United States): TGN: 4010660
Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
fields (land): AAT: 300343519
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horseback riding (traveling): AAT: 300249313
saddles (seats): AAT: 300212972
horses (animals): AAT: 300250148
oxen (cattle/animals/Bovidae family): AAT: 300250282
williamson_Clara McDonald: ULAN: 500334446
longhorn: DMA
plains (landforms): AAT: 300008805
cowboy boots: AAT: 300210025
cowboy hats: AAT: 300210737
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