Posts Tagged ‘Fort Worth Circle’
How About That World Wide Web?
Jeff PrinceThe internet is way cool. I get emails all the time like the one I got this morning. Somebody gets to googling something or another, they stumble across a story I wrote years ago, and then they email me. It’s fun. Back in...
Early Texas Art Show And Sale Tonight And Saturday
Jeff PrinceHo ho ho! It’s July in Texas and hotter than two fireflies mating in a wool sock, but art lovers around here look forward to the annual Collectors of Fort Worth Art show and sale like children awaiting Christmas morn. Thi...
Two Cool Women Spread Love Of Art
Jeff PrinceDespite it’s reputation for stockyards and slaughterhouses, Fort Worth artists were on the cutting edge of modern art in Texas during the mid-20th century. Since then, people who grew up around here recall school trips to...
Fort Worth Circle Artist Kelly Fearing Dead At 92
Jeff PrinceOne of the last members of the revered Fort Worth Circle of artists died Sunday in Austin. Kelly Fearing, 92, died of congestive heart failure. Fearing was part of a somewhat eccentric art circle that introduced modernism, surr...
Fort Worth Artist Brings Big Bucks
Jeff PrinceEarly Fort Worth artist Bror Utter‘s intriguing oil on canvas painting “The Visitors” (1943) fetched $35,850 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas last weekend. That’s some serious cheese for local art. Utter (...
Fort Worth Art Show & Sale Draws Big Vendors
Jeff PrinceArt collectors who favor the vintage paintings by Fort Worth’s earliest artists are waiting impatiently for the annual sale held each July at Fort Worth Community Arts Center. This year’s show will feature some new bloo...