1944.13, Fred Darge, Survival of the Fittest
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Survival of the Fittest captures the clarity and heat of the West Texas landscape as well as the precarious existence of its inhabitants. In this meticulously detailed scene, a roadrunner and a snake face off in a climate beset by death a
2015.53 Jerry Bywaters, West Texas Town, Adrian
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This painting exemplifies Jerry Bywaters’ mastery of regionalist landscape painting using his observations of expansive West Texas. As early as 1934 he traveled to the area and other parts of the Southwest in search of artistic inspiration.
1942.4, Jerry Bywaters, On the Ranch
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Jerry Bywaters was an important voice in the arts in Texas, having trained in Dallas and in the East with Robert Vonnoh, Bruce Crane, and John Sloan.
1940.17, William Lester, Cypress Fen
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Regionalist painter William Lester developed an iconography of the Southwest that reached far beyond simple observation of nature.
1938.24, Everett Spruce, Night
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
With its playful, almost cartoonlike description of the landscape, Night is an unusual example of Everett Spruce’s work in the 1930s, when he was
1985.128, Alexandre Hogue, Study for "Drouth Stricken Area"
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Hogue blamed the ecological problems in the Great Plains on man’s inept and thoughtless over-cultivation of the land, viewing the plow as the principal agent of the disaster.
1956.138, Alexandre Hogue, Rattler
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Like the windmill, the rattlesnake is a recurrent motif in Hogue’s oeuvre from the 1930s, likely because both are visually interesting subjects and common throughout Texas. Hogue seemed particularly drawn to the play between the snake’s diamond-patterned scales and the twisting form of its body.
1945.6, Alexandre Hogue, Drouth Stricken Area
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Drouth Stricken Area, one of Alexandre Hogue's Erosion series paintings, the formerly verdant landscape has been sculpted
2007.15.32 Alexandre Hogue, Flood Victims
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
While not specifically designated as part of the Erosion Series, Flood Victims frames two living animals within a different environmental crisis.
1937.16, Alexandre Hogue, End of the Trail
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The only lithograph included in Alexandre Hogue’s Erosion Series, End of the Trail is one of the artist’s many meditations on the ecological destruction the Dust Bowl inflicted upon the Southwest in the 1930s.