Buddha

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1281, King Mengrai captured the north­ern Mon city of Lamphun and established the kingdom of Lan Na, which lasted until the 16th century when the Burmese invaded.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

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Born in 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe began drawing lessons at ten. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906 and the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase from 1907 to 1908.

Texas Centennial Exposition and Art Exhibition (1936)

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The 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition was one of America's great world's fairs of the 1930s—this one celebrating the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico. Local festivities started as early as 1935, and both the Dallas Exposition and Fort Worth's Frontier Centennial carried on through 1937. 

Dallas Nine

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From 1928 to 1948, the art-life of Texas was dominated by the activities and accomplishments of a group of younger artists, collectively known as "The Nine," whose work fell within the broader 1930s stylistic category of Regionalism.

Dallas Art Institute

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The most influential large scale teaching effort [in Dallas' art community] occurred in 1926 when Olin Travis, recently returned from extensive study at The Art Institute of Chicago, established the Dallas Art Institute on the second floor of a building at 1215 1/2 Main Street.

Nabis

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1888 a group of art students at the Académie Julian in Paris began to forge their own response to the Impressionist tradition. It was probably the critic Henri Cazalis who suggested the term Nabi, meaning prophet in Hebrew, as the name for his close-knit group of h
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