The Art Lover’s Companion
More than sixty art insiders gave us their list of favorite works of art to see in Texas. So grab your notepad, sketchbooks, or iPad and take the ultimate tour of must-see art in Texas.
From the Kimbell to the Menil, Texas’s museums are home to an exquisite collection of masterpieces. We asked more than sixty curators, gallery owners, critics, and other insiders for their favorites. Here’s the list of must-see art on view in Texas. An * denotes that the work is on our top ten list.
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
FORT WORTH
*Thomas Eakins, Swimming (1885)
Martin Johnson Heade, Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay (1868)
Frederic S. Remington, A Dash for the Timber (1889)
Dale Chihuly, Blue Cascade Cohn Chandelier, 1999
Art Museum of South Texas
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI
Dorothy Hood, Untitled #7 #110 (1980–1989)
James Surls, Seeing Through the Wind (1997)
Dale Chihuly, Blue Cascade Cohn Chandelier (1999)
Jesús Moroles, Pyramid Barge (1984)
Jesús Moroles, Mountain Core (1984)
Louise Nevelson, Silent Silence (1963–1968)
AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART AT LAGUNA GLORIA
AUSTIN
Nancy Holt, Time Span (1981)
Vernon Fisher, Evidence of Houdini’s Return, 1994
The Blanton Museum of Art
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
AUSTIN
Leo Steinberg Collection
Suida-Manning Collection
Vernon Fisher, Evidence of Houdini’s Return (1994)
Cildo Meireles Missao/Missoes [How to Build Cathedrals] (1987)
Teresita Fernandez, Stacked Waters (2009)
El Anatsui, Untitled (2007)
Anselm Keiefer, Sternenfall [Falling Stars] (1998)
CHINATI FOUNDATION
MARFA
*Donald Judd, 100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminum (1982–1986)
Dan Flavin, Untitled, (Marfa project) (1996)
Ilya Kabakov, School No. 6 (1993)
Roni Horn, Things That Happen Again: For a Here and a There (1986–1991)
Alexandre Hogue, Drouth Stricken Area, 1934
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
DALLAS
Gerald Murphy, Clock (1925)
Gerald Murphy, Watch (1925)
Piet Mondrian, Place de la Concorde (1938–1943)
*Frederic Edwin Church, The Icebergs (1861)
Bojan Sarcevic, She (2010)
Otis Dozier, Cotton Boll (1936)
Alexandre Hogue, Drouth Stricken Area (1934)
Florence McClung, Squaw Creek Valley (1937)
Everett Spruce, Twins 1939–1940
Robert Rauschenberg, Skyway 1964
Jackson Pollock, Cathedral (1947)
Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream (1953)
Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled (1982–1983)
Canaletto, San Cristoforo, San Michele, and Murano from the Fondamenta Nuove, Venice (1722–1723)
Christopher Wool, Untitled (1990)
The Rachofsky House
The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection (1985)
Claes Thure Oldenburg, Stake Hitch (1984)
Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)
Portrait of a Lady (c. 1620–1621)
Oil on canvas, 47” x 36”
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, El Paso Museum of Art Collection
EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART
EL PASO
Audley Dean Nicols, Sunland Landscape (1923)
Sir Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of a Lady (c. 1620–21)
Edward G. Eisenlohr (1872-1961)
Country Church in Palo Pinto, 1945
Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Collection of the Grace Museum, 1945.001.001
GRACE MUSEUM
ABILENE
Edward G. Eisenlohr, Country Church in Palo Pinto (1945)
Walker Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife [Allie Mae Burroughs], 1936
Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center
HARRY RANSOM CENTER
AUSTIN
Walker Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife [Allie Mae Burroughs] (1936)
Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, c. 1594
Kimbell Art Museum
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
FORT WORTH
The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis I. Kahn (1972)
Georges de La Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (c. 1630–1634)
Harihara, style of Prasat Andet, Pre-Angkor period (c. 675–700)
*Caravaggio, The Cardsharps (c. 1594)
James Ensor, Belgian, Skeletons Warming Themselves (1889)
Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Raising of Lazarus (1310–11)
Jan Gossart, called Mabuse, Portrait of Hendrik III, Count of Nassau-Breda (c. 1516–1517)
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Glaucus and Scylla (1841)
MCNAY ART MUSEUM
SAN ANTONIO
Pablo Picasso, Woman With a Plumed Hat (1901)
Sandy Skoglund, The Cocktail Party (1992)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Hans Frisch (c. 1907)
Marsden Hartley, Portrait Arrangement(1914)
Edward Hopper, Corn Hill, Truro, Cape Cod (1930)
Pablo Picasso, Guitar and Wine Glass (1912)
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