Following is the obituary of Tracy Hicks from the Dallas Morning News, Courtesy of Eleanor Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

"Noted Texas artist, Smithsonian fellow Tracy Hicks dies at 68 "

By Michael Granberry, October 26, 2014

Tracy Hicks, a renowned Texas artist who showed at the Dallas Museum of Art and numerous local galleries, and who later became an art fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, died Friday. He was 68.

Hicks suffered a heart attack in the mountains of North Carolina, where he and his wife, longtime Dallas journalist Victoria Loe Hicks, recently built a new home.

Born in San Antonio, Valton Tracy Hicks Jr. moved to Dallas with his family when he was a toddler...