-\JURY OF SELECTION AND AWARDS

ALINE B. SAARINEN, special art critic for the " N ew York T imes"

FOREWORDI was happy to be asked to serve as "one-man" juror for the 1954 Texas Annual,

because I have long consid ered it the most int eresting of the state shows. I was particu­larly fortunate this year in that there seemed to be an extraordinary number of verygood entri es. It is also a fascinating challenge for an our-of-starer to judge a state show,for he approaches it with none of the prejud ices of familiarity or of knowing esrab­lished reputations.

What are the juror's crit eria? To seek those paintings which, in his best judgment ,seem to make a fresh and personal statement, to be technically able with the leastamount of "dead canvas" and in which expression and means reinforce each other.

As a one-man juror , I had no one with whom to compromise but myself. Nat­urally, in a selection large enough to be fair and representative, not all the paintingsdo come up to one's top stand ards. But ir is the hope that those which are obviouslybelow the top two dozen are in one way or another superior to those which were rejected.

Two parenthetical notes : I felt even in the most awkward entries such a sincerityand devotion to painting that the eliminatio ns were nor made heartlessly. I balked atassigning specific prizes of so-and-so much to th is or that painting, and simply singledour those eleven objects in the exhibition which I felt most deserving of special recog­nition, both for cash prizes and for the consideration of comm ittees deciding on StateFair Purchases and the Onderdonk Memorial Purchase. After these decisions were madethe other paintings recommended received cash awards as designated in the prize listof th is catalogue.

Not everyone will agree with the one-man-jury choices. I did the most conscientiousand honest job I knew. I do not apologize for personal taste - for that , unadult erated,is both the virtue and vice of the one-man-jury system. But to those art ists whosework I inevitably underestimated, I offer not only my apologies but my regrets atmy own myopia.

On the Cotler:

Aline B. SaarinenBloomfield Hills, Michigan

"Boy in M exico," oil pai11ting by CEClL L. CASBlER, $500 State Fair of T exasPurchase Prize

Dallas Museum of Art Library

NOTE ON THE EXHIBITIONIn addition to revealing an unusually high quality attested to "offi cially" by Ju ror

Aline B. Saarinen, the 16th Texas Annual has some other points worth noting.

The num ber of entries remains about the same, but many completely "new" andable artists show themselves. For this very reason, the "one-lady" juror decided to admitonly a single example by an artist, thereby giving good new talent its deserved chance.

As a special feature, a dozen or so Texas artists now living elsewhere were invitedto send one work which would be exempt from jury action and inelig ible for prizes,only purchase consideration .

Finally, for this Texas Annual exhibition and probably for othe rs to come, theFort Worth Art Museum joins the "charter member" art museums of Ho uston, SanAntonio and Dallas as a sponsor of the exhibit . This action adds further to the largeaudience for Texas artis ts and emphasizes the importance of this region al exh ibit.

Exhibition CalendarThe Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio

The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston

Fort Worth Art Center

October 9 through October 31

November 7 through November 28

December 5 through December 26

January 11 through February 9, 1955

"Summer," oil painting by OTIS DOZIER, $500 Julian Onderdonk Memorial Purchase

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS PURCHASE of $500 for the permanent collectionof the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

CECIL LANG CASEBIER, San Antonio for oil pa inting, "Boy in Mexico"

JULIAN ONDERDONK MEMORIAL PURCHASE of $500 for the San AntonioArt League collection

OTIS DOZIER, Dallas for oil painting, "Summer"

STATE FAIR OF T EXAS P URCHASE of $400 for th e perm anent collecti onof the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

DON SNELL, Austin for oil painting, "T he Sun Is th e Source"

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS PURCHASE of $100 for the permanent collectionof th e Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

] . RAYMOND FLETCHER, San Antonio for painting, "War Dance"

'The Sun Is the Source," oil painting by DO N SNELL, $400 State Fair of T exasPurchase Prize

" 117ar Dance," painting

by ]. RAYMOND FLETCHER ,

$50 San Antonio Men of Art

Guild A ward

FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION AWARD of $150KEITH McINTYRE, San Antonio for oil painting, "T he Quarry"

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD of $100DAN WINGREN, Austin for oil painting, "W eeds"

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD* of $100KELLY FEARING, Austin for oil painting, "Landscape with Peacock "

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF HOUSTON AWARD* of $100DAVID ADICKES, Houston for oil painting, "Risque-Tout"

FOLEY'S OF HOUSTON AWARD of $100PETER VATSURES, Dallas for oil painting, "Eclipse"

SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION AWARD of $100BILL BOMAR, Fort Worth for watercolor, "Austin Strata"

STRAUS FRANK COMPANY AWARD of $100WILFRED HIGGINS, Dallas for oil painting, "Crimson Landscape"

SAN ANTONIO MEN OF ART GUILD AWARD of $50J- RAYMOND FLETCHER, San Antonio for painting, "War Dance"

*Donated by the Humble Oil and R efinin g Company

(T he Dallas A rt Association's $100 award, to be announced at the close of theDallas Museum of Fin e Arts showing, w ill be made t o the work receiving the m ostpublic votes during the exhibit ion period. )

Catalogue of the ExhibitionDAVID ADICKES, Houston

1. Risque-T out (oil)

JIM ADKINS, Aust in

2. Ri verbank in March(watercolor )

H ERI BERT BARTSCHT, Dallas

3. Boy with Fish (wood)

REV EAU BASSETT, Dallas

4. N ovember (oil)

ED BEARDEN, Dall as

5. West Texas Wheat Field (oil)

REID BEYER, Dallas'

6. Syncopati on (casein)

BILL BOMAR, Fort Worth

7. Austin Strata (watercolor)

JAMES W. BOYNTON, Fort Worth

8. Strata: 1954 (casein)

DAVID BROWNLOW, Fort Worth

9. Music (o il)

BARBARA CAMP, Pecos

10. Heart of the Dragon(black Belgian m arbl e)

SCOT T CARPENTER, Dallas

11. Pavane (oil)

FREDERICK CARTER, Hous ton

12. Philosophical T abl es (tempera)

CECIL LANG CASEBIER,San Antonio

13. Boy in Mexico (oi l)

PAULL CASTL EBERRY, Amar illo

14. Maniacal (watercolor and ink)

PAT H ALSALL COLVILLE, Dallas

15. Ju an (oil)

"The Quarry," oil pai11ting by KEIT H McINTYR E, $150 Fort Wo rth Art AssociationAward

"Wee ds," oil painting by DA N W INGREN, $100 Mmeum of Fine Arts of HoustonAward

PAT COOKSTON, Dallas

16. Umbrellas (egg tempera)

MARIA C. CROSS, Fort Worth

17. W atermelons(gouache and wa tercolor)

BEN L. CULWELL, Dallas

18. untitled (o il , duco and wire)

BOB CUNNINGHAM, Fort Worth

19. Oil Steel (oil)

LEONARD DE LONGA, Fort Worth

20. Silver Shadows (oil)

OTIS DOZIER, Dallas

21. Summer (oi l)

ROB ERT C. ELLIS, Jacksboro

22. Market (oil)

KELLY FEARING, Austin

23. Landscape with Peacock (oil)

J. RAYMOND FLETCHER,San Antonio

24. W ar Dance (mixed m edia)

MARGARET FLOWERS, San Antoni o

25. Flowers (duco)

SEYMOUR FOGEL, Austin

26. Dawn Flight (oi l)

MICHAEL FRARY, San Antonio

27. StilI Life (oil)

J AMES L. FRAZER, San Antonio

28. Good Friday (oi l)

JOHN FRAZ ER, Longv iew

29. Union Square (oi l)

HENRI GADBOIS, H ouston

30. West Beach - Galveston (oil)

EVELYN GAY, W aco

31. Time: Dream (mahogany)

JOHN GUERIN, Austin

32. Low Tide (oil)

ERV HARRISON, Fort Worth

33. Armored Figure - Reclining(oil)

JOAN HIERHOLZER, San Antonio

34. Shilos (oil)

WILFRED HIGGINS, Dallas

35. Crimson Landscape (oil)

"Landscape with Peacock," oil painting byKELLY FEARING,

$100 Museum of Fine Arts

of Houston A ward

HERBERT HUGHES, Fort Worth

36. The Dark Pool ( oil)

DEFORREST H. JUDD, Dallas

37. Caddo Lake Still Life (oil)

DAVID G. LEDOUX, Dallas

38. About Trees wi th T hree Suns(pastel and tem pera)

AMY FREEMAN LEE, San An tonio

39. Variation No. 1 on a Themeby Robert Frost (watercolor)

WALTER L. LENGEL, Dallas

40. La Sortie (oil)

WILLIAM LESTER, Austin

41. Animal Theme (oil)

LEONARD M. LOGAN III,Fort Worth

42. Obsession (oil)

ROBERT LOTH, Dallas

43. Blueprint (oil)

PHILIP MAGINOT, San Angelo

44. Market - Cuernavaca (oil)

KEITH McINTYRE, San Antonio

45. The Quarry (oil)

FRED MITCHAM, Dallas

46. Yellow Shacks (oil)

MEL MOORE, Fort Worth

47. Sound Out of Silence (oil)

JULIA I. ORYNSKI, Dallas48. Combat (oil)

FELISA A. OWENS, Fort Worth

49. Pensamiento (stone)

LEM PALMER, Houston

50. Soliloquy (egg tempera)

THELMA B. PARK, Fort Worth

51. untitled (watercolor)

LEON PLEDGER, Dallas

52. Time Drawn (metal)

DOROTHY POULOS, Dallas

53. Inside a Greenhouse (oil)

ROBERT PREUSSER, Houston

54. Flight (oil)

RICHARD T. PYLE, Dallas

55. Ice (oil)

RONNIE RABB, Greenville

56. Repetition of Thought (oil)

BILL REILY, San Antonio

57. Owl in the Moonlight (oil)

JERRY ROMOTSKY, Dallas

58. Prepared Convulsions (oil)

EVALINE SELLORS, Fort Worth

59. Poetess (walnut)

I.,.J

"Risque-Tout," oil painting by DAVID ADIe KES, $100 Museum of Fine Arts ofHouston Award

JANET SHOOK, San Antonio

60. Las Palomas (mixed media)

CLOVER V. SHORE, Fort Worth

61. #27-A (oil)

JERROLD SIMON, Austin

62. Taurine Demon (oil)

DON SNELL, Austin

63. The Sun Is the Source (oil)

JOAN B. STAYART, Dallas

64. The Red Hat (oil)

JAMES A. STERRlTT, Fort Worth

65. Spring Breeze (hammered andenameled copper)

MARGARET STITES, San Angelo

66. Carol (terra cotta)

RUTH M. TEARS, Dallas

67. Thistle (casein)

JACK TINKLE, San Antonio

68. The Harbor (oil)

CHESTER J. TONEY, San Antonio

69. Levee Basin (casein)

LIRL TREUTER, Fort Worth

70. Fruit Interiors (pastel)

McKIE TROTTER, Fort Worth

71. Fortress in Spring (oil)

JEAN TURBEVILLE, Dallas72. Pine Forest (oil)

JANET TURNER, Nacogdoches

73. Stranded Roots (watercolor)

CHARLES UMLAUF, Austin

74. Negress (t erra cotta)

'/Austi« Strata," watercolor

by BILL BOMAR,

$100 Scblum berger Well SurueyingCorporation Award

"Eclipse," oil painting by PETER VATSURES, $100 Foley's of H ouston Award

BROR UTTER, Fort Worth

75. Encounter (oil)

PETER VATSURES, Dallas

76. Eclipse (oil)

SELMA WALDMAN, Austin

77. The Man Who Died(after Lawrence) (oil)

CHARLES T. WILLIAMS, Fort Worth

78. Ancient Vestige (welded steel)

CLARA WILLIAMSON, Dallas

79. Blacksmith Shop (oil)

ROWLAND WILSON, Dallas

80. Bienville St. Barbershop(watercolor and gouache)

DAN WINGREN, Austin

81. Weeds (oil)

"Crimson Landscape," oil pai ntin g by WILFRED HIGGINS, $100 Straus FrankCompany Award

Because so many former Texas artists have achieved success in newly-adoptedresidences across the United States and in foreign countries, it seems a good time to

invite them to send a work of art to be exhibited with the opening of the 16th TexasAnnual Painting and Sculptu re Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Sincethe exhibit is for Texas residents, these invitational works were not eligible forjury awards.

ROSALIE BERKOWITZ, New York

"Georg ian Spring" (oil)

KATHERINE T. BURNSIDE

Parkersburg, West Virginia"Refuse" (watercolor)

JAMES BROOKS, New York

"No. 38" (oil)

GENE CHARLTON, New York"T he Sea" (oil)

XAVIER GONZALEZ, New York

"Fish Pond" (oil )

MORRIS GRAVES, New York

"W inter 's Leaves" (tempera)

ALEXANDRE HOGUE, Tulsa

"T rout Stream " (oil over casein)

JACK B. KELLAM, Danville, Kentucky

"Journey of the Magi" (oil)

JOSEPH GLASCO, Taos, New Mexico WILLIAM M. McVEY, Cleveland"Ceremony" (oil) "T hinker" (stoneware)

LLOYD L. GOFF, New York"Mediterranean Cabanas" (oil)

RUDOLF STAFFEL, Philadelphia

"Cows # 2" (watercolor)