Lot 121
BILLY HASSELL (American/Texas b. 1956) A PAINTING, "She-Wolf," 1984,
oil on canvas, titled, signed, and dated on reverse, "She-Wolf / B. Hassell 1984," a label on reverse from McIntosh Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas. 48" x 72"
- Provenance: Private Collection, Bellevue, Idaho.
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Notes:
Fort Worth-based fine artist Billy Hassell, who was recently referred to as "Mother Nature's Stylist" by The New York Times, has been showing his artwork since the 1980s. He is known for his bold colors and patterns inspired by nature and for his graphically illustrative style. His work is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Menil Collection in Houston. His works also hang in the public art collections including a U.S. Embassy, the University of Texas, the offices of HBO, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center. His work has been featured in nationally in Art News, Southwest Art, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and regional publications include the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Fort Worth Star Telegram, D magazine, and 360 West. Dedicated to conservation, Hassell has donated art throughout his career to fund raising for conservation organizations including The Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservation, and Audubon Society. Hassell also does lithography and has collaborated with a number of master printers to produce color lithographs. He has also produced and designed large-scale stained-glass murals, one of which is a large floor medallion for the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport; another is a 50 foot mural at a fire station in Fort Worth. Academic training has been an ongoing interest throughout his life. Hassell earned his BFA from Notre Dame, followed by his MFA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Upon completion of his graduate degree, Notre Dame invited him back as a professor to teach etching and watercolor. He has also taught a variety of art classes—painting, drawing, printmaking, and studio practices—at universities including Davidson College in North Carolina. Hassell is regularly invited to people's ranches and other landscape settings across the country, as well as out of the country, to capture the unique beauty of private places for their owners. Most recently, he completed a mural at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country that was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Today, Hassell's work continues to show the natural world charged with life, energy, and movement. On canvases that loom larger than life, both in size and vibrancy of subject, his distinctive use of color and stylized natural elements and animals reveal why he has become such a highly-respected painter. Sources: AskArt.com via Foltz Fine Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Hassell's works have been exhibited:
2000 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, March
2000 Summer Show, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June
2000 William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December
2001 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, May
2001 The American Landscape Today, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, May
2001 Fresh Voices, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June–July
2001 Five Star Texans, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, September
2001 Made in Texas, Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas, September
2001 Faculty Biennial Exhibition, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, October–November
2001 Invitational Group Exhibition, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas, November–December
2002 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December
2002 Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas, September
2002 D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas, May
2003 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, April
2003 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September
2003 William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December
2004 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, April
2005 Bryant Gallery, Kingsville, Texas, April
2005 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September
2005 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, April
2005 Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas, December
2006 LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, May
2007 Migration, 15 Year Survey, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, September
2008 Field Notes, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, May
2008 Journal, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, January
2008 Migration, 15 Year Survey, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, August
2008 LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, August
2008 Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas, November
2009 Migration, 15 Year Survey, Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Odessa, Texas, September
2009 Tangle, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, December
2010 Breath, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, February
2010 Distances, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, May
2010 Memento, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma, December
2012 Color Lithographs, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, March–May
2012 Watershed, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, April-May
2012 Wild Things (with David Everett), Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, September–January 2013
2013 Illuminating Nature, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas December–March 2014
2014 Ephemera: Winged Creatures of Texas, Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Fort Worth, Texas September–November
2014 Illumination, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas April
2014 Second Nature (with David Everett), Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas, April
2015 Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, February–April
2015 Ties that Bind: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Turner House, Dallas, Texas, February
Selected Public Collections:
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Cistercian Abbey, Irving, Texas
Crescent Collection, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Ellen Noel Museum of Art, Odessa, Texas
Frito-Lay, Inc., Department of Research and Development, Plano, Texas
George W. Bush Presidential Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Indian Blanket, South Texas, oil on canvas, 60 x 70 inches
Home Box Office (HBO), Dallas, Texas
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Methodist Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
U. S. Consulate General, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Perdenal, 2007, oil on canvas
VHA, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas -
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