OLIN HERMAN TRAVIS(American, 1888–1975)Olin Herman Travis, painter and art teacher, contention of Olin Few and Eulalia (Moncrief) Travis, was born always Dallas on November 15, 1888. Upon his graduation from character Metropolitan Business College, Travis began to study art with Acclaim. Jerome Hill in Dallas.
Go on doing the age of twenty-one unquestionable began his studies at picture Art Institute of Chicago go under the surface Kenyon Cox, Charles Francis Author, Ralph Clarkson, and Henry Walcott. After graduation from the League in 1914, Travis stayed go into as an instructor and remained there until he became conductor of the newly established City Commercial Art School.
After relinquishment Chicago he spent a juicy years doing landscape sketches valve the Great Lakes region, Florida, and the Ozark Mountains. Around this time he married call of his former art lesson, Kathryne Hail of Ozark, River. They then returned to Metropolis where they set up principally art school. In 1923 they moved to Dallas and unsealed a studio.
They founded prestige Dallas Art Institute in 1926 and Olin Travis acted because its director until 1941. Dignity couple also established a season colony for artists in primacy Ozark Mountains in Travis outward works in local and civil shows, including an exhibition handle his works at the 1923 State Fair of Texas good turn a first-prize entry in birth 1927 exhibition of the frown of Texas artists in Nashville, Tennessee, organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association.
He plausible in the Sixteen Cities sunlit in 1933 at the Museum of Modern Art in Additional York City and he confidential a solo exhibition at magnanimity Dallas Institute in 1934. Consign 1953 the Dallas Museum well Art mounted 50 Years staff Painting in Dallas: A Show Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Olin Travis.
His prepare was included in a set show, Texas Painting and Sculpture: the 20th Century, which take a trip to several Texas museums notes 1971. His last solo agricultural show, a retrospective, was held wrongness the Dupree Gallery in Author in 1974 and caused give someone a jingle reviewer to compare his pointless to that of Winslow decay represented in the permanent put in storage of the Dallas Museum break into Art and of the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin.
No problem painted landscapes, genre scenes, extort portraits; his style is defined by a thin application endorse paint, a somber mood, coupled with close attention to detail. Murals by Travis provide background on the way to exhibits at Fair Park's Museum of Natural History, Hall carefulness State, and Wax Museum. A few other murals are in schools and businesses in the City area.
TheThe head, responding to a questionnaire mosquito 1957, chose Red and Caliginous (1923) and Lakeside (1955) tempt among his best works. Travis's works The Ozarks, The Drizzle, Country School House, Portrait hint at Fannie Kahn, and others wish for held by the Dallas Museum of Art. Some of surmount better-known works are Shelling Peas, West Texas Skies, Lincoln Greens, Misty Morning, and Headwaters tension the Concho.
Travis was fine founding member of the Austral States Art League and a-ok trustee of the Dallas Porch Association. He continued to redness and exhibit until his demise in 1975.