November 20- January 18, 2009
To
accompany the exhibit Texas in My Soul, the Museum has looked
into its own collection and found a number of works of early Texas art which,
along with a generous loan from the San Angelo Art Club will comprise the
exhibit, Early Texas Art in the Concho Valley. The San Angelo
Art Club was organized in 1928 by a small group of local artists. The second
oldest continuous art organization in the state of Texas, the Art Club, over
the past 80 years, has had many artist members and has acquired a significant
collection of art of its own. Today the San Angelo Art Club is housed in Kendall
Gallery at 119 West 1st Street for the purpose of promoting fine art and art
education in the San Angelo area. Land for the gallery was donated to the
Art Club by Riley Kendall in 1946 in memory of his wife, Helen King Kendall,
and the initial gallery was built in 1949. Further additions to the gallery
were made in the 1950s as well as a storage facility in 1969.
Pictured above, Dwight Holmes, Twin Buttes, Oil on
canvas board, 20” x 24”
Gift of the artist, Collection of the San Angelo Art Club
San Angelo Museum
of Fine Arts
One Love Street
San Angelo, Texas 76903
Fax: (325) 658 - 6800
Phone: (325) 653 -
3333
e-mail:
museum@samfa.org