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050 00 $aND1402.6$b.R43 1998
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100 1 $aReaves, William E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97075199
245 10 $aTexas art and a wildcatter's dream :$bEdgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League /$cWilliam E. Reaves, Jr. ; foreword by Cecilia Steinfeldt ; afterword by Richard Casagrande.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCollege Station :$bTexas A&M University Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axiv, 97 pages, 29 pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c27 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ;$vno. 9
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [91]-92) and index.
520 $aAt a crucial moment in the development of Texas art, an eccentric oil wildcatter form Massachusetts and Luling, Texas, turned to the prestigious San Antonio Art League with a proposal. He would fund a national art competition featuring the state's verdant fields of wildflowers and bring prominence to Texas art if the league would handle the details.
520 8 $aThus was born the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, which in three years at the end of the Roaring Twenties awarded more than $53,000 in prize money for paintings of Texas wildflowers, ranch life, and cotton farming.
520 8 $aThis presentation of twenty-nine color plates of the competitions' best works includes paintings by such important artists as Jose Arpa, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Xavier Gonzalez, Edward G. Eisenlohr, and Oscar E. Berninghaus and Herbert Dunton (the latter duo having also served as founding members of the Taos Society of Artists). In the plates, the artists have portrayed a variety of landscapes and atmospheres to present the wildflowers loved not only by Davis but by generations of Texas art enthusiasts.
650 0 $aWild flowers in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146679
650 0 $aRegionalism in art$zTexas.
650 0 $aPainting$xCompetitions$zTexas.
650 0 $aPainting, American$zTexas.
650 0 $aPainting, American$zTexas$y20th century.
600 10 $aDavis, Edgar B.$q(Edgar Byrum),$d1873-$xArt patronage.
830 0 $aJoe and Betty Moore Texas art series ;$vno. 9.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42013969
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