Lot 237
REVEAU BASSETT (American/Texas 1897-1981) A PAINTING, "Landscape with Trees," 20TH CENTURY,
oil on board, signed L/L, "Reveau Bassett;" 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", framed 15" x 18".
- Provenance: Collection of Sylvia and Saverio Giammalva, Houston, Texas.
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Notes:
Born and reared in Dallas, Bassett traveled with Frank Reaugh on numerous sketching trips (beginning at age twelve) and studied at the National Academy of Design under Charles Courtney Curran. Bassett attended the Art Students League of New York and was a student of William Robinson Leigh, Joseph Pennell, and Boardman Robinson. At the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, Bassett was a student of George Pearce Ennis. Bassett painted in and around Dallas, in West Texas, and in New Mexico, a good number of his works being of migratory birds. He taught at the Dallas Art Institute in the 1920's and 1930's. Two of his canvases were selected for a 1925 exhibition at the National Academy of Design. Frank Reaugh noted the honor by the following remarks: "To have one's work measured by the exacting standards and requirements if that great jury and hung along with that of now famous luminaries in the art world, might be truly said to put one in the frame. The distinction of having ones's work hung in the great national gallery is tantamount to arriving." Bassett was twenty-eight at the time. Bassett assisted Eugene Savage in the execution of his mural depicting the history of Texas, placed in the Hall of State, Fair Park, Dallas, for the 1936 Centennial Exposition. In the 1950's and 1960's, Bassett was a director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon. In 1969 the Texas Senate passed a resolution commending Bassett for his accomplishments. Bassett was a lifelong resident of Dallas, where he died after a lifelong illness. Sources: AskArt.com via Foltz Fine Art Gallery.
Bassett's works have been exhibited:
1923-27, Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
1925, Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York City
1940-42, Lone Star Printmakers Circuit Exhibition
1954, Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition
1971, Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Owen Art Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1978, Seventy-Five Years of Art in Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
1989, Painters of Texas 1900-1950, Museums of Abilene, Texas
1999, Painting in Dallas 1889-1945, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX -
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