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Ed Bearden (American 1919–1980), Farmlands in Spring, 1950. Oil on masonite, 20 x 30 in. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection)
Dawson Dawson-Watson (British, 1864–1939). Jewel of the Hills, 1927. Oil on canvas, 29 x 23 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Reveau Bassett (American, 1897–1981). End of Day, Palo Duro Canyon, 1935. Oil on canvasboard, 16 x 30 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Alexandre Hogue (American, 1898–1994). Looking Toward Mexico, 1922. Pastel, 3 x 7 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Porfirio Salinas (American, 1910–1973). Sunset in the Hill Country, c. 1945. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Otis Dozier (American, 1904–1987). Texas Roadrunner, 1940. Lithograph, 13 x 16 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Coreen Spellman (American, 1905–1962). Railroad Signal, 1936. Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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Everett Spruce (American, 1908–2002). Watermelons, c. 1940. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches. The Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection
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The Eyes of Texas: The LoneStar State as Seen by Her Artists September 17, 2004–January 2, 2005 
The Tyler Museum of Art is pleased to present The Eyes of Texas: The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists. This exhibition features over 60 paintings and works on paper from the Bill and Mary Cheek Family Collection of Dallas. It brings together a representative sample of early Texas art – produced by almost as many numbers of artists – from one of the representative collections in this country. Generally regarded as work on Texas subjects and themes produced before the end of World War II, the early Texas works of art included in this exhibition are by such leading artists as Reveau Bassett (1897–1981), Ed Bearden (1919–1980), Jerry Bywaters (1906–1989), Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864–1939), Otis Dozier (1904–1987), Alexandre Hogue (1898–1994), Florence McClung (1894–1992), Porfirio Salinas (1910–1973), Coreen Mary Spellman (1905–1978), Everett Spruce (1908–2002), Janet Turner (1914–1988) and many more. Together, the works in this exhibition project the “almost mythical sense of the land and people that we associate with Texas” in the words of Howard Taylor, director of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arta. They are also a testimony tot he values that the Cheeks hold dear in their own lives, according to Eleanor Harvey, Luce Center Curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
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