Doris Childress was born in Celina and raised in Dallas. She studied at age nine at the Aunspaugh Art School, Dallas, attended Sophie Newcomb College, New Orleans, and graduated from the College of Industrial arts (Now Texas Woman's University), Denton, before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. She studied and worked with Don Kingman, Millard Owen Sheets, and Robert Wood.

Childress taught school in Wichita Falls and, following her marriage, studied fashion illustration at Vesper George Art School, Boston, while her husband was a graduate student at Harvard. In the early 1930s she moved to Houston.

Exhibitions: Annual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Ho...