1947.18 Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Into the World Came a Soul Called Ida
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Ivan Albright demonstrates his prior preoccupation with the theme of vanity in this lithograph.
1993.78 Laura Wilson, Hutterite Girls, Surprise Creek Colony, Montana
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Fort Worth-born photographer Laura Wilson wrote: "The Hutterites do not allow photography; I had to make fou
1991.109 Carlotta M. Corpron, Church in Havana
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1952.9 Cynthia Brants, Landscape at Boerne, Texas
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Boerne, north of San Antonio, was an early German settlement that eventually became a cotton and farming cen
1947.36 Bess Bigham Hubbard, Crusita of Taos
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Bess Bigham Hubbard found inspiration for her works in the Native American populations of the Southwest, of which this model is a notable example. Hubbard adopted the carving method of her instructor, the famed modernist sculptor William Zorach. Zorach advocated a direct, reductive chiseling method of working, rather than casting a sculpture in metal from a mold.
1940.20 Frances Skinner, East of Socorro
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By 1940, Socorro, located near El Paso, had become a major center for cotton production due to the creation of a dam in 1916 that changed the agricultural landscape. Here Frances Skinner avoids the current landscape of the city, concentrating instead on the natural and uncultivated topography of West Texas.
1940.16 Bertha M. Landers, Texas Cowboy
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Bertha Landers deftly creates a graphic portrait of one of the iconic images of the Lone Star State, the Texas cowboy, here squintin
1994.194 Frank Reaugh, Untitled (West Texas Scene)
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Small but exquisite in its handling, this sketchy scene of cattle in a river is typical of the work of Frank
1986.229 John Breckenridge Martin, East Dallas House in Snow
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The delicate medium of pastel is suited to this hazy winter scene of what would have been a typical wood-fra