Dallas Nine
The Dallas Nine was a group of Dallas, Texas artists active between 1928 and 1945. Members The group's core consisted of nine men who had applied to decorate the Hall of State in 1936: Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass and Perry Nichols. Other members in the 1930s and 1940s included Charles T. Bowling, Russell Vernon Hunter, Merritt T. Mauzey, Florence McClung, Allie Tennant, Dorothy Austin, Don Brown, and Lloyd Goff. The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture. Works by many of these artists are held at thBywaters Special Collectionsat Southern Methodist University. Exhibitions Nine of the group's members exhibited in 1932 at the Dallas Public Art Museum, in a show titled “Nine Young Dallas Artists. They exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and in the 1939 New York World's ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominen ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]