{"id":864,"date":"2018-12-31T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:25:40","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

3.12.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Texas artists feature river themes in paintings<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>A noted Texas conservationist and a leading Texas art historian and collector<\/span> have teamed up with twenty contemporary Texas artists to produce an extraordinary book, Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art<\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s early in the year, but I have to figure that this stunningly beautiful volume will be one of the finest Texas books produced this year. Authors Andrew Sansom<\/span> and William E. Reaves<\/span> contribute thoughtful introductory essays. Sansom, executive director of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, writes about \u201cRivers and People.\u201d Reaves, co-owner of Reaves\/Foltz Fine Art in Houston and author of Texas Art and a Wildcatter\u2019s Dream,<\/span> delves into \u201cTracing the River as Muse in the Lone Star Landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the artists take over, featuring fifty-four full-color pages of their work. Each painting gets a full page, with a few spread over two pages. The featured artists, in alphabetical order and by place of residence, are: Randy Bacon<\/span> (Abilene), Mary Baxter<\/span> (Marfa), David Caton<\/span> (Utopia), Margie Crisp<\/span> (Elgin), Keith Davis<\/span> (Austin), Fidencio Duran<\/span> (Austin), Jon Flaming<\/span> (Richardson), Charles Ford<\/span> (Houston, deceased), Pat Gabriel<\/span> (Fort Worth), Hunter George<\/span> (Houston). Also featured are Billy Hassell<\/span> (Fort Worth), Lee Jamison<\/span> (Huntsville), Robb Kendrick<\/span> (Austin), Laura Lewis<\/span> (Mason), William Montgomery<\/span> (Elgin), Noe Perez<\/span> (Corpus Christi), Jeri Salter<\/span> (Round Rock), Erik Sprohge<\/span> (Houston), Debbie Stevens<\/span> (Cypress), and William Young<\/span> (Palestine).<\/p>\n

At the end of the book, each artist is profiled in two or three pages, including his or her career highlights and featured exhibitions. Their paintings will be on display at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts through April 9 and then at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin June 5\u2013Aug. 13 and the Witte Museum in San Antonio Sept. 2\u2013Nov. 27. This book will brighten anyone\u2019s library or coffee table. And at $35, it\u2019s a real bargain.<\/p>\n

San Marcos Springs:<\/span> Underwater photographer and filmmaker Ron Coley<\/span> has published a gorgeous oversized collection of photographs, paintings and essays on The Fountains of Saint Mark: The Amazing San Marcos Springs<\/span> (Ron Coley Books, $60 hardcover).<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Noted Texas author Stephen Harrigan,<\/span> in a foreword, writes, \u201cFor four decades Ron has been a guardian, advocate and chronicler of the San Marcos Springs. In this book\u2014the work of a lifetime \u2014he has collected everything he\u2019s learned and everything he\u2019s seen about a place that is the shimmering, gleaming idea of what a body of water ought to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formerly a tourist attraction known as Aquarena Springs, San Marcos Springs transitioned into an environmental education complex under Coley\u2019s direction. Spring Lake now is the home of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. Coley opens each of the eight chapters in the book with a brief essay, followed by a painting by Janet Skaggs Hardin<\/span> based on Coley\u2019s photography, and then the underwater photographs themselves. You can read more about the book\u2014and order it\u2014at RonColeyBooks.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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