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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.
  • 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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