2004.3, Microphone (Model W-1248), Webster-Chicago Corporation (maker), American, c. 1936-1940
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This ribbon microphone, with its teardrop-shaped Bakelite casing and aggressive stack of chrome ribs, exudes the essence of streamlined style.
Severin Roesen (1816-1872)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Severin Roesen is considered one of the most important American still life painter of the mid-19th century. His oeuvre and style form a bridge between the talented Peale family (notably James, Rembrandt, and Raphaelle Peale) of the colonial and federal periods, and William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto, who flourished in the final quarter of the century.
Texas Art—The Landscape
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The 19th century in American art is the great epoch of landscape, a tradition that stretched across the decades, much as the country itself steadily grew in size. While their artistic styles differed over time, American artists remained continually preoccupied with the impulse to explore and represent the world around them.
Texas Art—Regionalism
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Texas artists' participation in as well as divergence from mainstream American art intensified by the 1930s and 40s.
Texas Art—Women artists
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The histories of art have largely been written by and emphasized men. But as several decades of scholarship have shown, women have always made significant contributions to art and, indeed, have traditionally been not only makers but vitally important promoters and sustainers of culture as well.
Barrett Collection of Contemporary Texas Art
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In January 2008 the Dallas Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced that Nona and Richard Barrett of Dallas had given more than two hundred works of art form their outstanding private collection of contemporary Texas art to both museums.
Barrett Collection of Early Texas Art
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
With its sprawling landmass, geographic and demographic diversity, and dramatic, even mythic, history, Texas has always operated within and outside of American culture. So too has its art, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1992.B.54 Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of a Man
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The soft edges, neutral background, and cool tonality of this painting have recently led scholars of the Peale family to reattribute this work to Rembrandt Peale. Initially trained by his father, Rembrandt Peale developed a softer, more three-dimensional style, which this meditative portrait seems to display.