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Austin artist David Everett was born and raised in Texas, and his work reflects an organic and wholly original Lone Star State ethos. His stunning vision and exquisite craftsmanship evoke nature's essential grace and harmony in beautiful sculptures, bas-relief carvings, woodcuts, and drawings.

Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. This book presents a beautiful, informative account of the ranch, its human and animal inhabitants, and its place in the artistic heritage of the region.

In this first book of interviews with visual artists from across Texas, more than sixty artists reflect on topics from seminal influences and inspirations to their common engagement with found materials. Incorporating a striking, full-colour illustration of each artist's work, these absorbing self-examinations will stand collectively as a reference of lasting value.

Everett Spruce came to Texas in 1925 to study at the Dallas Art Institute. Over the next seven decades, he became one of the most important painters and teachers in the region. Texas Made Modern traces Spruce's artistic evolution from his early experimental work of the 1920s tp the mysterious, surrealist-imbued landscapes of the 1930s.

A collection of Texas paintings and prints hangs throughout the offices, conference rooms, and hallways of Texas A&M University Press. These works comprise the Frank H. Wardlaw Collection of Texas Art. Through interviews with longtime staff and research into the Press's book files and correspondence, William and Linda Reaves have uncovered the captivating history of this unlikely collection.

Outsider artists live and create on the fringes of culture and society. Generally removed from the influence of place, they prefer instead to chart their own, intensely personal, interior landscapes. In Outsider Art in Texas, Jay Wehnert takes readers on a visually stunning excursion through the lives and work of eleven outsider artists from Texas.

Richard Stout's legacy as an artist is broad, deep, and firmly moored to his Texas Gulf Coast origins. In this, the first retrospective study of a career spanning one of the most tumultuous and formative periods in Texas art, the editors have gathered a critical examination and meticulously researched assessment of the evolution in the artist's style and approach.

Liliana Wilson's art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice. Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s. Ofrenda highlights some of Wilson's most representative works, accompanied by biographical background and scholarly interpretation.