THE ART OF TEXAS: 250 YEARS.

Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2019. ix,446pp. Index. Over 350 images (mostly of art with many in color). Notes. Bibliography. Cream colored cloth, title in gilt on spine. First edition. INSCRIBED to a Ft. Worth art collector. Fine copy in an equally nice dust jacket. Ron Tyler, a noted expert on Texas art and former director of Amon Carter Museum of American Art, assembled fourteen essays by prominent scholars on Texas art. Each of these scholars and art historians wrote a treatise on their particular area of expertise. The result is the first attempt to analyze Texas art from the Spanish colonial period through the latter part of the twentieth century. Among the contributors are Ron Tyler (early Texas art), Susie Kalil (Texas landscape art), Ricardo Romo (Hispanic art), Light Cummins (sculpture), Rebecca Lawton (Texas impressionism), Michael Grauer (western art), Scott Sherer (Texas African American art) and other fine contributions. A sumptuous presentation, it is broad in scope and well researched. A cornerstone work and definitive effort on Texas art.