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HETAG: The Houston Earlier Texas Art Group
HETAG Newsletter No. 56, August 2022
It's been a long time since the last issue of the HETAG Newsletter, in April. In part, that's
because everything slows down in the summer - especially when it's as hot a summer as this
one. Also, however, a lot of HETAG energy has been diverted into preparation for the
exhibition which is the primary topic of this issue of the Newsletter. Cue the trumpets - bring
up the lights - bring up the curtain. Let the show begin - in a little less than a month!
Gene Charlton Exterior #1: Arrangement Around Two Houses ca.1936 (1);
Alexandre Hogue Squaw Creek 1927, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (r)
Texas Modernism(s): Houston/Dallas in the 1930s
An Exhibition at the Julia Ideson Building of Houston Public Library
August 27 to November 5, 2022
During the 1930s, even as the depression dug in and the dust bowl blew, art flourished in
Texas, and Modernism, that most current of art movements at the time, made its way to the
Lone Star State. But Texas is vast and varied, so the Modernism(s) that took root in the
major cities and academic centers in the state was varied too.
In Houston and Dallas, Modernism became the central focus for two small groups of local
artists, made up mostly of youngsters, along with their forward-looking mentors - in
Houston, the Cherry-McNeill Group, and the Dallas Nine up north. Though not even 250
miles apart, the approaches to Modernism of the two groups in the two cities were markedlydifferent, and were in some respects a microcosm of the different paths to Modernism on the
national level.
Including over 70 paintings from private collections and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
the exhibition explores the looks and philosophical underpinnings of two seminal aspects of
the art history of Texas, which strongly influenced later developments in their two cities, as
well as the state in general. At the same time, the exhibition demonstrates that Modernism,
when it came to America, was not limited exclusively to the art centers of the East and that
it was not a single thing, even in a relatively contained region such as Texas. It was, rather
a liberating force that could take its disciples along markedly different routes toward the
shared ideal of creating a modern art for America, and for Texas.
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