Kelly Fearing Art
American, 1918-2011
Born in 1918 in Fordyce, Arkansas and raised in Louisiana, Fearing first studied art at Louisiana Tech University, and later earned a master’s degree at Columbia University in New York City. Fearing moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1943 and joined a group of artists active between 1945 and 1955 known as the “Fort Worth Circle.” This group was responsible to a large extent for introducing modernist art and ideas to Texas. The artists experimented with European surrealism, modernism, and a new emphasis on the individual artist’s metaphysical interpretation of the world; concepts that would guide Fearing for the rest of his career as an artist.
In 1947, after two years of teaching art at Texas Wesleyan University, Fearing accepted Loren Mozley’s offer to teach in the University of Texas art department in Austin, where he joined Mozley, Everett Spruce, William Lester, Ralph White, Seymour Fogel, Constance Forsyth and Charles Umlauf in defining mid-century Texas modernism. Fearing remained on the faculty for 40 years, during which time he co-wrote art education textbooks and inspired future generations of successful artists. As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts. Fearing retired in 1987 as professor emeritus from The University of Texas Department of Art and Art History and continued to work as an artist until his death in 2011.
Throughout his life, Fearing remained ever the restless explorer, experimenting with figuration, abstraction, color, and artistic processes in media ranging from graphite, charcoal, silver point, casein, gold leaf, frottage, montage and collage with found objects. He also explored a wide variety of printmaking processes singularly or in combination with other media. Since 1945, his artwork has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in major museums across Texas and is held in many private and public collections including: the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art and The Grace Museum. Fearing received the 2009 Texas Biennial Tribute Award and the 2007 E. William Doty Award, the most prestigious recognition offered by the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin granted to individuals who have distinguished themselves through extraordinary professional achievement.(Biography provided by Sager Reeves Gallery)
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Bird Collage No. 2
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in 1918 in Fordyce, Arkansas and raised in Louisiana, Fearing first studied art at Louisiana Tech University, and later earned a master’s degree at Columbia University in New Yo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Silver
Bird In The Rain, #1 and #2
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
A Pair of Etchings by Kelly Fearing, done in 1982. The price is for the pair.
Kelly Fearing ( American, 1918 – 2011 )
Title: Bird In The Rain 1982, #1 & #2
Medium: ...
Category
1980s Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Silver Bird in Blue Wind
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
By Kelly Fearing
7.25 x 10.5 inches
June 8, 1961
Category
20th Century Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Archival Paper
"Sharecroppers" Watercolor Scene of Laborers Working in a Cotton Field
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
This watercolor painting from 1940 depicts a scene of sharecroppers working in a cotton field. This piece represents a blend of American Realism and a more figurative, impressionisti...
Category
1940s American Realist Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"San Sebastian" Awesome Larger Mid Century Austin Texas piece.
By Kelly Fearing
Located in San Antonio, TX
Kelly Fearing
(1918-2011)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 42.25 x 30
Frame Size: 48.5 x 36.5
Medium: Oil/Gaouche
"San Sebastion"
Biography
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011)
The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News
Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92
AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure.
Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.
"Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all."
Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art.
After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist.
As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts.
Kelly Fearing has been an important artist working in Texas since the 1940s. After doing his graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Fearing established himself as a surrealist painter and print maker in Fort Worth, and then became one of the founding members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has had recent exhibitions at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Fearing lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Courtesy of Flatbread Press and Gallery
Added note:
Kelly Fearing died of congestive heart failure in 2011 in Austin, Texas.
William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011)
Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
· 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas
· 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana
· 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York
· 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award
· 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist
· 2011 Died in Austin, Texas
Selected Prizes, Awards
· Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950
1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil
1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil
1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil
1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil
1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil
1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil
1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil
1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil
1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil
· Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944
1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance
1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil
· Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956
1952 Cash Prize
1954 Purchase Prize
1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor
1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival
1956 Cash Prize
· Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational
1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition
1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational
Selected Exhibitions
· 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize)
· 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize)
· 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California
· 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize)
· 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
· 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
· 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize)
· 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York
· 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
· 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC
· 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
· 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor)
· 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater
· 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue)
· 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???)
· 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue)
· 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
· 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York
· 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
· 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962)
· 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
· 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
· 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York
· 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
· 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue)
· 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
· 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas
· 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
· 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas
· 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue)
· 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas
· 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue)
· 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
· 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
· 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
· 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue)
· 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
Category
1960s Modern Kelly Fearing Art
Kelly Fearing To Drink Water and Fly with a Kite 1970
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: To Drink Water and Fly with a Kite
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Edition: 15 / 40
Size: 17.5 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Etching
Saint Rose on a Bed of Glass
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Dallas, TX
This is lithographic crayon and gouache on paper
Category
1950s American Modern Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Gouache
Unicorn with a Golden Wall
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (1918 - 2011)
Title: "Unicorn with a Golden Wall"
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18" x 12" (image)
Markings: Signed LR
Framed
Category
1970s American Modern Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Kelly Fearing Saint Rose in a Wild Place 1995
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Saint Rose in a Wild Place, 1995
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Size: 7.25 x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Etching
Kelly Fearing Remogue
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Remogue
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Size: 6 x 2.5 in. (15.2 x 6.4 cm.)
Movement: Contemporary Art
M...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Etching
Kelly Fearing Three Virgins and a Devil 1944
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Three Virgins and a Devil, 1944
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Edition: 40 / 50
Size: 7.75 x 5 ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Etching
Kelly Fearing Mendicant Searching 2000
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Mendicant Searching, 2000
Medium: Prints and multiples, etching
Edition: 3 / 5
Size: 13 x 10 in. (33 x...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Etching
Kelly Fearing Boy Returning Water to the Sea 1949
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Austin, TX
Kelly Fearing (American, 1918 - 2011)
Title: Boy Returning Water to the Sea, 1949
Medium: Prints and multiples, lithograph
Size: 11.5 x 14 in. (29.2 x 35....
Category
1940s Contemporary Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Lithograph
"To Drink Water and Fly With A Kite"
By Kelly Fearing
Located in San Antonio, TX
Kelly Fearing
(1918-2011)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 18.5 x 10.25
Frame Size: 25 x 16.5
Medium: Etching 3/40
Dated 1970
"To Drink Water and Fly with a Kite"
Also gifted to a friend by Fearing in 1984.
Biography
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011)
The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News
Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92
AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure.
Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.
"Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all."
Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art.
After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist.
As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts.
Kelly Fearing has been an important artist working in Texas since the 1940s. After doing his graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Fearing established himself as a surrealist painter and print maker in Fort Worth, and then became one of the founding members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has had recent exhibitions at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Fearing lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Courtesy of Flatbread Press and Gallery
Added note:
Kelly Fearing died of congestive heart failure in 2011 in Austin, Texas.
William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011)
Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
· 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas
· 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana
· 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York
· 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award
· 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist
· 2011 Died in Austin, Texas
Selected Prizes, Awards
· Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950
1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil
1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil
1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil
1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil
1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil
1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil
1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil
1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil
1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil
· Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944
1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance
1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil
· Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956
1952 Cash Prize
1954 Purchase Prize
1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor
1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival
1956 Cash Prize
· Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational
1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition
1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational
Selected Exhibitions
· 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize)
· 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize)
· 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California
· 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize)
· 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
· 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
· 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize)
· 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York
· 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
· 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC
· 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
· 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor)
· 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater
· 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue)
· 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???)
· 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue)
· 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
· 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York
· 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
· 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962)
· 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
· 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
· 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York
· 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
· 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue)
· 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
· 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas
· 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
· 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas
· 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue)
· 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas
· 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue)
· 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
· 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
· 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
· 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue)
· 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
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Kelly Fearing (1918-2011)
The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News
Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92
AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure.
Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.
"Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all."
Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art.
After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist.
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William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011)
Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
· 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas
· 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana
· 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York
· 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award
· 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist
· 2011 Died in Austin, Texas
Selected Prizes, Awards
· Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950
1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil
1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil
1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil
1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil
1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil
1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil
1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil
1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil
1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil
· Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944
1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance
1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil
· Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956
1952 Cash Prize
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1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor
1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival
1956 Cash Prize
· Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational
1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition
1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational
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· 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize)
· 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize)
· 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California
· 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize)
· 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
· 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
· 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize)
· 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York
· 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
· 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC
· 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
· 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor)
· 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater
· 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue)
· 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???)
· 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue)
· 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
· 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York
· 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
· 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962)
· 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
· 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
· 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York
· 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
· 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue)
· 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
· 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas
· 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
· 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas
· 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue)
· 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas
· 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue)
· 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
· 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
· 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
· 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue)
· 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
Category
1970s Modern Kelly Fearing Art
"West of Ozona #4 July 18-August 4, 1997" Austin Texas Modernist
By Kelly Fearing
Located in San Antonio, TX
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) Austin Artist Image Size: 11 x 15 Frame Size: 17 x 20 Medium: Watercolor 1977 "West of Ozona #4 July 18-August 4, 1997"
Biography
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011)
The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News
Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92
AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure.
Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.
"Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all."
Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art.
After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist.
As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts.
Kelly Fearing has been an important artist working in Texas since the 1940s. After doing his graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Fearing established himself as a surrealist painter and print maker in Fort Worth, and then became one of the founding members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has had recent exhibitions at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Fearing lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Courtesy of Flatbread Press and Gallery
Added note:
Kelly Fearing died of congestive heart failure in 2011 in Austin, Texas.
William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011)
Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Biographical and Career Highlights
· 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas
· 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana
· 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York
· 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award
· 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist
· 2011 Died in Austin, Texas
Selected Prizes, Awards
· Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950
1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil
1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil
1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil
1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil
1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil
1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil
1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil
1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil
1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil
· Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944
1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance
1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil
· Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956
1952 Cash Prize
1954 Purchase Prize
1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor
1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival
1956 Cash Prize
· Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational
1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition
1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational
Selected Exhibitions
· 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize)
· 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize)
· 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California
· 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize)
· 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
· 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
· 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize)
· 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York
· 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)
· 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
· 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
· 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC
· 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize)
· 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
· 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
· 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
· 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor)
· 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater
· 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue)
· 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???)
· 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize)
· 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue)
· 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
· 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York
· 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
· 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962)
· 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize)
· 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
· 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
· 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
· 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
· 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York
· 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
· 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
· 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
· 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue)
· 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
· 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas
· 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
· 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas
· 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue)
· 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas
· 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue)
· 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
· 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
· 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
· 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
· 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
· 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
· 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
· 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
· 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas
· 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
· 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue)
· 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
· 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
Category
1990s Modern Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Watercolor
H 17 in W 20 in D 3 in
Kelly Fearing - 1955
By Kelly Fearing
Located in Houston, TX
Kelly Fearing - Mixed Media on paper. 1955
Image size - "7x6"
Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92
AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure.
Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.
"Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all."
Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle...
Category
1950s Modern Kelly Fearing Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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