Category: Contemporary Texas artists

Everett Spruce was born on a farm in Conway to William E. and Fannie McCarthy Spruce. He came to Dallas at the age of 17 on a scholarship to study at the Dallas Museum of Art under Olin Travis and Thomas M. Stell, Jr. In 1931

Olin Herman Travis was a Dallas-based artist and teacher who worked intermittently in Arkansas for about twenty years.

William Lewis Lester, an artist and art teacher, was the son of John Lewis and Mildred Matilda (Padgett) Lester, born on August 20, 1910, in Graham, Texas.

Otis Marion Dozier was born on March 27, 1904 in Forney, Texas. He grew up on a farm in nearby Mesquite and developed a love of wildlife and nature, which later became the main subject of his art.