The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and John MY Lee Associates, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The construction of the building spanned in stages over a decade.
Nishikawa Sukenobu, often called simply "Sukenobu", was a Japanese printmaker from Kyoto. He was unusual for an ukiyo-e artist, as he was based in the imperial capital of Kyoto. He did prints of actors, but gained note for his works concerning women. His Hyakunin joro shinasadame, in two volumes published in 1723, depicted women of all classes, from the empress to prostitutes, and received favorable results.
Linda Ridgway is an American artist in Dallas, TX known for sculpting and printmaking works. Her focus is on themes of femininity, tradition, and heritage. Ridgway is known for her bronze wall reliefs.
Alexandre Hogue was an American artist active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was a realist painter associated with the Dallas Nine; the majority of his works focus on Southwestern United States and South Central United States landscapes during the Dust Bowl.
Ed Moses was an American artist based in Los Angeles and a central figure of postwar West Coast art.
Florence McClung was an American painter, printmaker, and art teacher. She was the daughter of Charles W. and Minerva (McCoy) White and was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved to Dallas, Texas, as a child with her family in 1899 and lived there until her death. She later was associated with the Dallas Nine, an influential group of Dallas-based artists.
Arthur William Brown (1881–1966) was a Canadian commercial artist, most known for his work as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, and Redbook.
Williamson Gerald Bywaters (1906–1989), known as Jerry Bywaters, was an American artist, university professor, museum director, art critic and a historian of the Texas region. Based in Dallas, Bywaters worked to elevate the quality of Texas art, attracting national recognition to the art of the region.
Merritt Mauzey (1897-1973) was an American lithographer and noted children’s book author and illustrator in the mid-20th century. Associated closely with the Dallas Nine group of artists, Mauzey was a self-taught artist known for his depictions of rural life and the cotton industry in his native Texas.
Bertha Mae Landers (1911–1996) was an American painter and printmaker.
Verda Ligon (1902–1970) was an American painter and printmaker.
Octavio Medellín (1907–1999) was a Mexican-American sculptor and artist, most commonly known for his Mexican-influenced artwork in Texas. Medellín believed that “sincere art must be elemental and close to the earth,” and he strove to create art influenced by “the common people and everyday life,” not “politics” or “sophisticated ideas.” Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Medellín's work consisted of various paintings and sculptures that are now in an exhibition and digital library in Southern Methodist University's Bywaters Special Collections.
Coreen Mary Spellman (1905–1978) was an American printmaker, painter, and teacher active in Texas from the 1920s until her death in 1978.
Janet E. Turner (1914–1988) was an American artist known for her printmaking.
The Dallas Nine was a group of Dallas, Texas artists active between 1928 and 1945.
Judy Youngblood is an American artist. Youngblood is known for her paintings based on weather phenomena, and also for her mixed media art including paintings, drawings, etchings, and relief prints. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was associated with the Atelier 17 in Paris. Youngblood taught both printmaking and book arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. Youngblood was a MacDowell Fellow in 1982 and again in 1985, and her work has been included in over three hundred invitational and juried group exhibits and is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art. Youngblood has had two solo shows at William Campbell Contemporary Art in Forth Worth including "Changing Weather" in 2014 and "Unsettled Conditions" in 2019. Also in 2019, the Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College (Dallas) hosted a retrospective of her work: Judy Youngblood: The Effects of Time and Weather.
Everett Franklin Spruce was a painter, museum professional, and arts educator based in Texas. He was widely recognized as one of the earliest regional visual artists to have embraced modernism in his interpretations of the Southwestern aesthetic. As a member of the Dallas Nine, he contributed to developing a stylistic lexicon that captured realistic and unidealized perspectives of the region, shifting away from the “Old South” view of Texas. Regional nature dominated his oeuvre, and a wide array of artistic movements, music, and literature influenced his renderings of it.
Daniel Gale Turnbull Jr., was an American ceramicist, painter, etcher, and art director active from the 1920s until the 1950s. He is best known for his work as art director and designer at Vernon Kilns beginning in 1936.
Margaret Ann Scruggs-Carruth (1892-1988) was a Texan etcher, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was primarily active in the first half of the 20th century, illustrating one of the first botanical guides for native Texas plants in 1932.
Olin Herman Travis (1888–1975) was an American painter and arts educator active for much of the 20th-century. He spent most of his life working in Texas, though he and his first wife Kathryne Hail Travis routinely traveled to Arkansas. In addition to his paintings, Travis is largely known for several public murals in Dallas and for working with Kathryne to co-found the Dallas Art Institute (DAI) – the first major art institution in the south to offer artistic instruction in a variety of fields.
