About Inez Elder

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    Long-lived Inez Staub Elder (Mrs. Arthur Blanton Elder), 1894-1991, a painter of still-lifes and portraits, as well as a teacher, was born in Kossuth, Ohio. Her varied art studies included Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, 1914-15; the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1916-17; New School of Design, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917-18; Art Students League, New York City, 1920; and Arlington State College, Texas, 1951. She studied with George Brandt Bridgman and Frank Vincent DuMond at the League, and with Herman Henry Wessel. After teaching in high schools in Dayton and Cincinnati, 1918-1920, Elder moved to Dallas in 1921, where she lived most of her life. She died in Dallas and was buried there.

    Elder held memberships in several Dallas organizations including the Dallas Artists and Craftsmen Association; Federation of Dallas Artists; Frank Reaugh Art Club, Klepper Sketch Club, and Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts. She was also a member of the Southern States Art League; and Texas Fine Arts Association.

    Her work is in the collections of the Dallas Woman's Forum, and Peabody School, Dallas.

    Inez Elder exhibited her work in the following venues:

    Annual Allied Arts Exhibition, Dallas
    Annual Exhibition of Texas Artists,
    Dallas Woman's Forum
    Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition
    Annual Exhibition of the State Fair of Texas, Dallas
    Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition
    Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth
    Dallas Painters in Oils, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
    Joseph Sartor Galleries, Dallas
    Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas
    Greater Texas and Pan-American Exhibition, Dallas
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas
    Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
    Frank Reaugh Art Club, Dallas
    Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition
    Texas General Exhibition
    Federation of Dallas Artists
    Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition
    Texas A&M College, College Station
    Klepper Sketch Club, Dallas
    Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
    Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, Dallas
    Women Artists of Texas
    Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon
    Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans.

    Source:
    John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists"

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