Henri Gadbois
"The Juggler"
1953

Name: "The Juggler"
Brand: Henri Gadbois
Price: 3900 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Henri Gadbois (Born 1930) Houston Artist Image Size: 29 x 13 Frame Size: 34 x 18 Medium: Oil 1953 Mid Century Modern Juggler Biography Henri Gadbois (1930 - present) 1930 Born Houston, Texas St. Joseph’s Hospital 1947 Ceramic Bowl accepted in the Texas General 1948 Graduated Lamar High School, Houston, Texas Houston Artists Exhibit 1948 to 1960 1952 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Houston Instructor Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School (Now the Glassel School) 1952 to 1965: “16 Texas Painters” Valley House Gallery, Dallas Texas 1953 Master of Letters, University of Houston Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1954 U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia Archives of American Art, Personal Papers 1954 to 1970 “Red Tights” Allied Art Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Clump of Trees, Hermann Park” Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Art Rental Exhibit 1955 One-Man Exhibit, Herbert Institute, Augusta Georgia 793 MP Battalion, Nurnberg, Germany Studio space at University of Georgia, Furth, Germany 1956 Married Leila McConnell August 18, 1956 Art Teacher, Houston Public Schools Chaired Exhibit “Contemporary German Graphics” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Exhibit, Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas “Landscape-Stuttgart” Flaxman Purchase prize, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1957 “Three Tiered Formation”, American Federation of Arts Survey of Texas Painting “Illogical Organism” Bute Gallery 1958 “Budding Stump”, Feldman Collection Exhibit, Little Studio, New York, New York “Espaliered Burlap” Autumn Show, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana One-Man Exhibit, Rudi’s Club, Houston, Texas Texas Fine Art Association Exhibit, Austin, Texas TFAA Circulating Exhibit 1958-1959, San Marcos, Seguin, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Brownsville, and Kingsville “Night Crossing”, Four-man Exhibit Petroleum Club, Houston, Texas “Gold Flow” Texas ’58 Circulating Exhibit “White Out” Honorable Mention, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Spring”, Terrace Show, Handmakers, Houston, Texas “Winter”, “Start With Art” Exhibit, Junior League, Houston, Texas 1959 One-man Exhibit, Driscoll Gallery, Austin, Texas One-man Exhibit, Houston Geophysical Club, Houston, Texas Faculty-Student Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Dallas Art Rental, Dallas, Texas “Winter”, Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado “Portrait of a Dress” Junior League, Houston, Texas 1960 “Field Patterns, Europe” One-man exhibit James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas 1961 Instructor Hill Country Arts Foundation 1961 to 197? “ Katy Road”, Texas Annual Exhibit, San Antonio Art league Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1962 “Field Pattern, Wurzburg” Western Arts Exhibit, Denver Colorado One-man Exhibit, St. Luke’s Church, Houston, Texas “Mystic Road, Germany” Azalea Trail Exhibit, River Oaks Garden Forum, Houston, Texas Art Teacher, Robert E. Lee High School, Houston 1963 One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas “Landscape at Nysa”, Longview Invitational, Longview, Texas 1964 Chaired Exhibit “Recent Acquisitions in Houston Collections” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas “Plants on the Terrace”, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas “Aspen Mountain”, Junior Service League, Longview, Texas “Sunset”, Museum Faculty Show, Music Hall, Houston, Texas One-man Exhibit, Houston Baptist College, Houston “Two Lemons”, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas “Sunset”, Longview Invitational, Popular Prize, Longview, Texas “Painters and Partners”, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas “The Point”, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Txas 1966 Opening Exhibition, Dubose Galleries, Houston, Texas Art Rental, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas “Port at Night”, Educational TV, New Orleans “The Big Landscape” One-Man exhibit Dubose Gallery “Splash of Yellow”, University of Houston Activities Center, Houston, Texas “Sun Flowers”, The Houston Club, Houston, Texas 1969 “Night Frost”, Donated to The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas “Champions #4”, Champions Golf Club “Looking Back”, Southwestern Savings and Loan “The Ash Tree”, Texas Commerce Bank 1970 “A Pleasant Place”, Texas Heart Institute 1971 “Sunset in Peach and Blue”, Petroleum Club of Houston 1974 “Prelude”, Beaumont Country Club “The Lake of the Nymphs”, Bank of Mississippi “Livingston Trail”, Hycel, Inc. 1976 “Water Patterns”, Corpus Christi Cotillion Club “Morning Coffee”, Terrace Community Hospital 1981 “A Christmas Heritage”, River Oaks Bank and Trust 1984 One Man Exhibit, Imagination Gallery, Kerrville, Texas 1988 Started making faux food for display at Bayou Bend Yuletide 1990 Retired from Teaching after 34 year Docent, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens 1995 Started Company, Faux Foods, Earthenware Foods in the 18th and 19th Century manner. Suitable for Museum display. 1998 Early American Life Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen 1999 Early American Homes Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen Pineapple Ornament for The White House Christmas Tree 2004 “17-15, Seventeen Houston Artists 1950-1965” Brazos Project, Houston.

Creator:

Henri Gadbois (1930, American)

Creation Year:

1953

Dimensions:

Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

1950-1959