Dallas Nine
{{Short description|Artist group from Dallas, Texas active from 1928 to 1945}}
The Dallas Nine was a group of Dallas, Texas artists active between 1928 and 1945.{{cite book |last1=Buenger |first1=Walter Louis |last2=Calvert |first2=Robert A. |title=Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations |year=1991 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-0-89096-490-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_0TAAAAYAAJ&q=Dallas+Nine |language=en}}
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.{{cite web |title=TSHA {{!}} Dallas Nine |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dallas-nine |website=www.tshaonline.org}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Artists & Designers - Dallas Nine - DMA Collection Online |url=https://collections.dma.org/essay/o93RMYMr |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=collections.dma.org |language=en}} The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture. Works by many of these artists are held at the [https://www.smu.edu/Libraries/Hamon/bywaters Bywaters Special Collections] at Southern Methodist University.{{Cite web |title=Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper - SMU |url=https://www.smu.edu/libraries/digitalcollections/tar |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=www.smu.edu}}
Exhibitions
Nine of the group's members exhibited in 1932 at the Dallas Public Art Museum, in a show titled “Nine Young Dallas Artists.{{cite web |title=ART A PICTURE OF THE DALLAS NINE |url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1996/november/art-a-picture-of-the-dallas-nine/ |website=D Magazine |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Southwest Review |year=1985 |publisher=Southern Methodist University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uqwAAAAIAAJ&q=Dallas+Nine |language=en}} They exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and in the 1939 New York World's Fair. A special issue of Art Digest featured their work.{{cite web |title=Artists & Designers - Dallas Nine - DMA Collection Online |url=https://collections.dma.org/essay/o93RMYMr |website=collections.dma.org |language=en}} In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art presented the exhibition Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945.{{cite web |last1=Art |first1=Dallas Museum of |title=Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945 [Photograph DMA_1367-21] |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth538299/ |website=Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945, February 3-March 17, 1985 |date=1985}}