Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201
Dallas, TX 75201
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Museums page for Coreen Spellman ((1905 - 1978)), known for Landscape painting, teaching, design, illustration, lithography, murals. Showing 2 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1905 Forney, Texas - 1978 Denton, Texas. Known for: Landscape painting, teaching, design, illustration, lithography, murals.
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a... Read full biography
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism, and abstraction. Often the central subject such as in... Read full biography
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism, and abstraction. Often the central subject such as in "Railroad Signal" was the only suggestion of humanity against a backdrop of stark Texas landscape. Of her painting these isolated subjects she said: "I enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant... Read full biography
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism, and abstraction. Often the central subject such as in "Railroad Signal" was the only suggestion of humanity against a backdrop of stark Texas landscape. Of her painting these isolated subjects she said: "I enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant subject or theme and making something fine and important out of it . It always gives me great pleasure to discover something which has been passed over as being inadequate material". (Trenton 199). Spellman was born in Forney, Texas in 1905. At an early... Read full biography
Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism, and abstraction. Often the central subject such as in "Railroad Signal" was the only suggestion of humanity against a backdrop of stark Texas landscape. Of her painting these isolated subjects she said: "I enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant subject or theme and making something fine and important out of it . It always gives me great pleasure to discover something which has been passed over as being inadequate material". (Trenton 199). Spellman was born in Forney, Texas in 1905. At an early age she moved to Dallas, Texas and studied under Vivian Aunspaugh before attending the College of Industrial Arts (Texas Woman's Univer... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (2)
All MuseumsThe Grace Museum
102 Cypress Street
Abilene, TX 79601