GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Raised on a cotton farm near present-day Mesquite, Texas, Otis Dozier’s work is deeply personal and illuminates a vital moment in Texas history. Active in the 1930s and 1940s, Dozier was a seminal member of the Dallas Nine, a group of regional artists who sought inspiration from their rural surroundings, including despondent farmers affected by the Great Depression. Pastoral and agricultural studies encompass a large portion of Dozier’s work, as his early affinity for both wildlife and nature only grew after a move to bustling, cosmopolitan Dallas. In this close, almost scientific rendering of a maize plant, Dozier captures the brilliant kernel texture and husk color of a solitary stalk standing in a barren, dust field.
Excerpt from
Erin Pinon, DMA label text, 2016
NOTES
Created in 1937
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1994.40 Otis Dozier, Maize and Farmhouse (Brain link not Evernote)
Parent: Sixty-two works of early Texas art [5329708]
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Depicted location and place of origin: Texas (state/United States): TGN: 7007826
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Oil on Masonite
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1989-2007: Nona and Richard Barrett, The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
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- Dozier, Otis, Texas State Historical Association Biography~Read more about Otis Dozier on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
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General Description
Raised on a cotton farm near present-day Mesquite, Texas, Otis Dozier’s work is deeply personal and illuminates a vital moment in Texas history. Active in the 1930s and 1940s, Dozier was a seminal member of the Dallas Nine, a group of regional artists who sought inspiration from their rural surroundings, including despondent farmers affected by the Great Depression. Pastoral and agricultural studies encompass a large portion of Dozier’s work, as his early affinity for both wildlife and nature only grew after a move to bustling, cosmopolitan Dallas. In this close, almost scientific rendering of a maize plant, Dozier captures the brilliant kernel texture and husk color of a solitary stalk standing in a barren, dust field.
Excerpt from
Erin Pinon, DMA label text, 2016
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Dozier, Otis, Texas State Historical Association Biography~Read more about Otis Dozier on the Handbook of Texas Online (published by the Texas State Historical Association).
Notes
Created in 1937
Object File Reviewed
Related Object:
1994.40 Otis Dozier, Maize and Farmhouse (Brain link not Evernote)
Parent: Sixty-two works of early Texas art [5329708]
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
1989-2007: Nona and Richard Barrett, The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
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