The Fourth Texas General Exhibition Page: 2
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i7he Texas General Evhibition eminating from the desire on the part of
Texas Museum directors to establish an annual exhibition which would bring
before the public through museum showings, representative works of Texas
artists, is now in its fourth year. The idea of assembling the exhibition in ro-
tation by the three sponsoring museums is carried out, though for the past
two years it was assembled by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts as a part of
the State Fair with the thought of avoiding duplication of effort considering
that a Texas exhibition has always been held in Dallas at that time. This is
the first time that San Antonio has had the privilege of organizing the exhi-
bition.
The war has naturally affected the artists so that the number of entries
was much less than in previous years. In comparison to the 546 entries last
year we had 267, less than one half as many. Artists are fighting the war as
hard as anyone because it is above all, a war for what artists stand for -
freedom of expression and life.
The jury with one exception was from out of the state. Howard Cook,
one of the country's distinguished painters and printmakers is from Taos, New
Mexico; Weeks Hall, a painter and art critic is from New Iberia, Louisiana.
Ward Lockwood, noted American painter, formerly from Taos, New Mexico
and recently chairman of the Department of Fine Arts of the University of
Texas is now a Captain in the U. S. Army at Kelly Field.
AWARDS
1st - $100.00 War Bond given by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts to
LOREN MOZLEY for "Fishing Equipment" - oil.
2nd - $50.00 War Bond given by the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston to
CHARLES UMLAUF for "Figure in Mahogany" - wood.
3rd - $50.00 War Bond given by the San Antonio Art League, Witte
Museum to JAMES FRAZER for "The Old Boys of Washington
Street" - gouache.
4th - $25.00 War Bond given by the Pearl Brewery of San Antonio to
DICKSON REEDER for "The Hat with the Green Ribbon" - oil.
5th - $10.00 Purchase Prize given by Otis Farnsworth to BERTHA
LANDERS for "Mexican Funeral" - a lithograph.ou'ri i ( i OEICIC/zI-d Exfitiorz
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Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The Fourth Texas General Exhibition, pamphlet, 1942; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183301/m1/2/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Museum of Art.