Dallas Nine
Dallas Nine, Texas Design Icon.
Dallas (1930s-1940s): This band of Texas Regionalist painters, printmakers, and sculptors, which was active in Dallas in the 1930s and early 1940s, included Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass, and Perry Nichols. With a focus on the land and people of Texas, they bucked the era’s emphasis on European trends and eschewed abstraction. Beginning in 1933, the federal Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) provided patronage — notably funds for murals. The Works Projects Administration (WPA) continued support into the 1940s. The Centennial Exposition of 1936 at Fair Park in Dallas brought the Dallas Nine into the national spotlight.
