6. The University of Texas at Austin in the 1940s and 1950s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. 1. The Modernist Impulse and Texas Art 1
5. 2. The 1930s and the Texas Centennial 29
6. 3. Houston and the Foundations of Early Texas Modernism 61
7. 4. Early Practitioners of Abstraction and Nonobjectivity 79
8. 5. The Fort Worth Circle 115
9. 6. The University of Texas at Austin in the 1940s and 1950s 137
10. 7. The 1950s and Houston 169
11. 8. Sculpture in and around the Studio of Charles Williams 207
12. 9. Are Texans American? 239
13. Postscript 257
14. Appendix. Selected Artists’ Biographies 263
15. Notes 297
16. Bibliography 339
17. Illustration Credits 357
18. Index 365