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
1962.16, Alexandre Hogue, Prairie Dog
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The prairie dog was despised by Texas farmers for digging holes that threatened to break the legs of horses and livestock.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
1983.140 Ceremonial jacket (sape buri)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
An array of materials, colors, and textures create a vibrant, powerful composition on this woman’s ceremonial sleeveless jacket. Set amid the stitched shells are swatches of red, yellow, and green trade felt, metallic sequins, and strips of multicolored trade cloth.
1983.130 Ceremonial cloth (pua) with monitor lizards slumbering on watchtowers (bandau bepadung)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Six monitor lizards confront their counterparts across a line symbolizing a spiritual chasm that keeps the reptiles from attacking one another. They are hedged within upper and lower bands of selaku, or borders.
1983.127 Ceremonial cloth (pua kumba)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The central design motif on this pua or ceremonial cloth is known as Bali Bugau Kantu, a design that was taken from the Iban’s enemy, the Kantu, during a 19th-century raid.