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Cadillac automobiles reached their zenith of magnificence during the early 1930s with the production of cars powered by V-16 engines. One of the most expensive automobiles available at the time in the Texas Panhandle, this 1930 Cadillac V-16 Sedan…

This evening coat was donated by Louise Dicken Conway in 1986. It was made by her mother, Addie Dicken, in 1931 and was made to be worn over formal dresses when the donor attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

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This charcoal drawing is the beginning of a painting that famous Panhandle artist, Harold Bugbee planned to complete. This is the layout that Bugbee was working on the day before he died.

This piece is currently on display within the Bugbee…

O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a supervisor of drawing and penmanship for Amarillo schools from 1912 to 1914. In September of 1916, O’Keeffe began teaching at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon. While in Canyon, O’Keeffe spent her free time painting…

After coming to the United States in 1908, the artist studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as an illustrator in Chicago, Detroit, and Dallas, before moving to Dalhart, Texas in the late 1940s.

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Called the father of the Taos Art Colony, the Cincinnati-born Sharp (1859-1953) studied at the McMicken School of Design (later called the Cincinnati Art Academy), and in Belgium, Germany, and France. He saw Taos in 1893, bought a house there in…

Born in Indiana, Higgins (1884-1949) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Munich and Paris. He first visited Taos in 1914, moving there in 1915. Higgins joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1917 and helped form “The New Mexico Painters: in…

This Japanese silk embroidered kimono was purchased in Kansas City in 1914 by David Sloan Kritser for his wife, Anna Belle Masterson Kritser. As one of four daughters of R.B. Masterson, Anna Belle received part of his ranchland, for which she and…

According to the donor, a Michigan family went to Austin during the early 1960s to settle an estate. On the way back home, they ran out of money and traded this horn chair for a tank of gasoline. The donor’s grandfather traded a $20 gold piece to the…

Mead (1902-1986) studied at the Art institute of Chicago and with Hugo D Pohl in San Antonio. In the early 1930s, he had a studio near Palo Duro Canyon and painted three murals for PPHM’s Pioneer Hall. Mead also lived in San Antonio and in Dallas and…