I recently embarked on a two week road trip to see parts of America I’ve never seen before. As my family and I drove across the country–through the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico–the landscape and sites constantly reminded me of works of art from the Museum’s collection.
Red River, TX
Nic Nicosia, River, 1981, Dallas Museum of Art, General Acquisitions Fund
Haystacks in Kansas
Florence E. McClung, Squaw Creek Valley, 1937, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Florence E. McClung
Road signs, Kansas
Coreen Mary Spellman, Road Signs, 1936, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Helen, Mick and Thomas Spellman
We saw expansive flat lands transform into rolling hills, then the rough and brittle Badlands. We saw Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument in the Black Hills. We saw purple mountains and red rocks in Colorado and camped among tree filled peaks. We were even visited by a moose in the Rio Grande National Forest.
Carhenge in Alliance, NE
Laurie Simmons, Stonehenge, 1984, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, Houston
Windmill well in Nebraska
Peter Hurd, Windmill well at Night, 1935-36, Dallas Museum of Art, bequest of Rozwell Sam Adams in memory of Herndon Kimball Adams and Loither Iler Adams
We drove past mesas, buttes, and Glen Canyon Dam. We kayaked in the clearest fresh water at Lake Powell and jumped off cliffs. We visited the (inaccurately named) Aztec Ruins left behind by an Ancestral Pueblo society. We saw the adobe houses and desert landscapes that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe. And then we made our way back home though west Texas.
Badlands, South Dakota
Frances Skinner, East of Socorro, 1940, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum League Prize, Eleventh Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, 1940
Distant rainstorm, Wyoming
Edward Bearden, Storm on the Plains, 1944, Dallas Museum of Art, Ted Dealey Purchase Prize, Fifteenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition, 1944
Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado
Alexandre Hogue, From Harriett’s Cabin, 1927, Dallas Museum of Art, The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
Take a break from the Texas heat and take your own journey across the world and through time in the DMA’s permanent collection galleries this summer.
Water splashing on Lake Powell, Arizona
Everett Spruce, Canyon at Night, 1945, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase
Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona
Adrian D. Clem, Construction Work Boulder Dam #1, 1934, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Public Works of Art Project
Jessica Fuentes
Manager of Gallery Interpretation and the Center for Creative Connections
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