GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Regionalist painter William Lester developed an iconography of the Southwest that reached far beyond simple observation of nature. Rejecting impressionistic interpretations of Texas’ landscape, filled with rolling hills of bluebonnets and restrained to a pastel palette, Lester’s landscapes are instead at the stylistic crossroads of surrealism, expressionism, abstraction, and regionalism.
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Erin Pinon, Early Texas Art Research Associate, DMA label copy (1940.17), June 2016
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This note was started by Erin Pinon but found in trash after she left. I moved it to my notes to see if I can pick up where she left off. Aug 2016.
Used Pinon's general info from 1940.17 to create General Description.
Created in 1935
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Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
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From 1986: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Maggie Joe and Alexandre Hogue, Tulsa, OK.
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General Description
Regionalist painter William Lester developed an iconography of the Southwest that reached far beyond simple observation of nature. Rejecting impressionistic interpretations of Texas’ landscape, filled with rolling hills of bluebonnets and restrained to a pastel palette, Lester’s landscapes are instead at the stylistic crossroads of surrealism, expressionism, abstraction, and regionalism.
Excerpt from
Erin Pinon, Early Texas Art Research Associate, DMA label copy (1940.17), June 2016
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
This note was started by Erin Pinon but found in trash after she left. I moved it to my notes to see if I can pick up where she left off. Aug 2016.
Used Pinon's general info from 1940.17 to create General Description.
Created in 1935
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
Process/materials
Oil on Masonite
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1986: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Maggie Joe and Alexandre Hogue, Tulsa, OK.
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VIDEO ASSETS
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