The Austin Chronicle

American Art History in a Nutshell: Inside Charles Butt’s American Modernist Collection

At the mouth of the Blanton Museum of Art, a cluster of paintings spanning technique and medium welcome you into Charles Butt’s colorful and curious tour of American modernism, currently on its ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

‘Beyond Mysticism’ at the Seattle Art Museum: How Seattle found its own modernism

The interdisciplinary American modernism movement that rose in the United States in the first half of the 20th century ...
Forbes

Maria Martinez, Essential American Modernist, At Heard Museum In Phoenix

Maria and Julian Martinez. Black-on-black jar, c. 1940, 17 x 22 inches. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gift of Clark Field. 1946.46.1 Of course Maria Martinez (1887–1980) is one of the ...
Texas Monthly

What Charles Butt’s Art Collection Reveals About the Elusive Man Behind H-E-B

I should have known better than to expect to meet someone who once described himself as a “poor man’s Howard Hughes.” And yet, how could I not try? After all, the man is not exactly a hidden ...
insider.si.edu

American modernism at mid-century : the work of Morris Davidson / edited by Kevin D. Murphy ; with contributions from Lucinda Rosenfeld, Margaret R. Laster and Melissa Renn

This volume presents the first scholarly consideration of Morris Davidson (1898-1979), an influential painter and educator whose work has been neglected in the art history of mid-twentieth century ...