GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Autobiographical details resonate within this landscape by Coreen Spellman, who used the bold lettering of highway signs to indicate where she lived and where she worked. The result is, in effect, a radical type of self-portrait.
Born in Forney, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Spellman studied at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton, where she taught for nearly fifty years.
Excerpt from
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, Label text, 2005
NOTES
This note was originally started by Erin Pinon, summer 2016 but was left blank. I pulled the note from the Evernote trash folder to keep working on it.
c. 1936
Hwy 24 is now 380
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Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
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PROVENANCE
Until d. 1978: Coreen Mary Spellman (1905-1978)
d. 1978-1994: sister and brothers of the artist, Mrs. Helen (B.L.) Wherry (Beaumont, TX), Mick Spellman (Forney, TX), and Thomas E. Spellman (Sherman, TX), by inheritance
From 1994: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
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WEB RESOURCES
- Southern Methodist University's Digital Collection~View a large collection of Spellman's works digitally in a local university collection (organized by Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries Digital Collections).
- Spellman Museum of Forney History~Learn more about the Spellman family and their hometown of Forney, Texas.
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General Description
Autobiographical details resonate within this landscape by Coreen Spellman, who used the bold lettering of highway signs to indicate where she lived and where she worked. The result is, in effect, a radical type of self-portrait.
Born in Forney, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Spellman studied at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton, where she taught for nearly fifty years.
Excerpt from
Wiliam Keyse Rudolph, Label text, 2005
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Southern Methodist University's Digital Collection~View a large collection of Spellman's works digitally in a local university collection (organized by Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries Digital Collections).
- Spellman Museum of Forney History~Learn more about the Spellman family and their hometown of Forney, Texas.
Notes
This note was originally started by Erin Pinon, summer 2016 but was left blank. I pulled the note from the Evernote trash folder to keep working on it.
c. 1936
Hwy 24 is now 380
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until d. 1978: Coreen Mary Spellman (1905-1978)
d. 1978-1994: sister and brothers of the artist, Mrs. Helen (B.L.) Wherry (Beaumont, TX), Mick Spellman (Forney, TX), and Thomas E. Spellman (Sherman, TX), by inheritance
From 1994: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
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