Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, 1950-1980
From 1950 to 1980, during three momentous decades, Houston became the titular capital of “modern art” in Texas, attracting a loose-knit colony of important painters nurtured in a burgeoning community of avant-garde galleries, collectors, museums and university art departments. Looking back, it is evident now that this thirty-year span represented one of the most vital and productive periods of the city’s cultural evolution, a “coming of age” of the Houston art scene which paralleled the region’s dramatic rise in population, economic influence and social vitality. The current exhibition, Bayou City Chic, examines this watershed era, presenting an extraordinary survey of paintings by artists associated with the city’s remarkable mid-century journey, (as well as an interesting sampler of works by contemporaneous Texas modernists of the period whose output interfaced with that of the Houston scene).
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