Raoul Josset (1899-1957) "They Might be Giants - then again, they might be the work of Raoul Josset. The Franco-American sculptor who made larger-than-life Texas Statues..."
TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHERS
John Trlica by Clay Coppedge John Trlica operated his Granger studio from 1924 until the mid-1950s. He photographed people and places, but mostly people - regardless of race or religion. This was a time when most rural businesses in Central Texas closed their doors to black and Hispanic citizens.
William Tauch Texas photographer William Tauch, and his sculptor daughter Waldine Tauch Henry Jacob Braunig by Murray Montgomery Hallettsville Photographer Left a Legacy of Memories
Alfonso Casasola and The Casasola Photo Collection Alfonso Casasola�s studio occupied a downtown building in the 500 block of S. El Paso Street. Citizens of Juarez, El Pasoans, soldiers from Fort Bliss, visiting Mexican entertainers and even Border Patrol agents dropped into Alfonso�s studio to have �the moments of their lives� recorded for posterity. And so it went for decades...
TEXAS ARTISTS
German Artists Draw First Hill Country Images by Michael Barrn 12-1-22 Had artists Hermann Lungkwitz and Richard Petri stayed in their native Germany, their names may have been buried under an avalanche of other artists with similar training and talent. Instead they came to Fredericksburg, where their drawings and paintings became some of the first pictorial records of the Texas Hill Country.
ObituaryTom Tierney 1928-2014 The Most Interesting Man in Smithville, Texas (Artistic Divison) Marilyn Monroe Once Took Out His Garbage by John Troesser 7-27-14
The sculptress and a paper mill by Bob Bowman We recently learned that Texas historian Light Cummings is writing a book about sculptress Allie Tennant of Dallas, who has an unusual link with East Texas. When the first paper mill to make newsprint from southern pine trees was built near Lufkin in the 1930s, Tennant was commissioned to develop a plaque bearing the likenesses of Charles Holmes Herty and Francis Patrick Garvan, who developed a method for separating the pine resin from the tree�s pulp...
Wilson Pottery by Clay Coppedge 8-4-12 Examples of Wilson stoneware have been exhibited at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, the Institute of Texas Cultures in San Antonio, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The Wilson Pottery Foundation, with its own museum, is dedicated to preserving the memory and works of Hiram and the other Wilsons who, in bondage and as free men, created durable and practical stoneware that today is worth more than what any of the Wilson potters made in a lifetime.
Steel House by Byrone Brown Sculptor and architect Robert Bruno has bequeathed to us his Steel House, sometimes referred to as �The Metal Mansion�, just outside of Lubbock in Ransom Canyon.
Prada Marfa by Luke Warm Photos courtesy Lizette Kapre, Ballroom Marfa, and the Art Production Fund. West Texas gets a Long-Overdue Infusion of Whimsy by German-based Artists
Bar Art Saloon paintings, made with varying degrees of talent have never been fully addressed by critics. Don�t worry, there�s no lecture here � just a sampling of what now passes for art in and around drinking establishments.
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Texas Art Forum
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