Pardon our dust, but over the next month we are remodeling at William Reaves Fine Art.  We are busy making some great new improvements on our space at 2313 Brun Street in Houston to get ready for September and what promises to be our most exciting season of Texas art yet!

     Our remodeling plans require us to temporarily move our entire inventory from the "back racks" out to the floor; presenting a rare and delectable opportunity for serious Texas collectors everywhere: the chance to browse the stacks in search of previously hidden art treasures and strike a deal at a bargain price!

     William Reaves Fine Art's Summer Remodeling Sale promises to be a true Texas art jubilee, a rare art rummaging experience that just doesn't come along very often.  We advise clients and patrons to definitely get this treasure hunt on your August art calendars and come search our stacks for fabulous finds and wonderful values!  As always, the gallery will be open every Friday-Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM, and other times by appointment.

     As we get ready for another exciting year, not only are we polishing up the gallery to serve you better; we're expanding and enhancing our professional team as well!  Your August visits to William Reaves Fine Art will be graciously and ably accommodated by our newest team members, Sarah Beth Wilson and Leslie Thompson, Gallery Director and Assistant Director respectively.  These talented young art professionals represent great new assets for our firm and wonderful new additions to the Texas art community.  We'll have much more to say about them in the weeks to come, as well as news about our extraordinary new season of Texas art. 

     In the meantime, put on your casual clothes and tennis shoes and drop by William Reaves Fine Art's temporary construction site for an old-fashioned Texas treasure hunt.  If you don't mind a bit of dust and a little banging in the background, the art promises to be great and we'd enjoy the company!

     Our WRFA gallery inventory features works by over 90 Texas artists. Download the following PDF to view a complete list of these artists with works available during our Summer Remodeling Sale! Please contact Gallery Director Sarah Wilson for information and images of the works available. You can email Sarah at sarah@reavesart.com.

William Young, The Art of Marriage, 2009, acrylic/board, 29x48 in.

Heads Up! The Texas Aesthetic III Is Here...and it's Bigger'n Better Than Ever!

 As everyone knows, we have established something of an annual tradition here at William Reaves Fine Art, as we celebrate the end of spring by showcasing our Texas group show.  We've had great repsonse to past versions of the "Aesthetic", and this year's show promises to be our best ever.  The exhibition will feature 16 of the state's finest artists, and offers an array of style and subject matter deliberately curated to show the richness and diversity of art in the Lone Star State!  New comers this year include Margie Crisp, William Montgomery, Noe Perez, Otis Huband and Dixie Friend Gay.  Show starts May 14th and continues through June.  Stay tuned for more details and make your plans now to attend! You won't be disappointed.

Exhibition Events:

Collector Preview Weekend- Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, 2010

Opening Reception- Saturday, May 22, 2010, 5-8 p.m.

Meet the Artists Series- Every Saturday beginning June 5th through June 26th, 2-4 p.m.

Series Schedule:

• Saturday, June 5th: Dixie Friend Gay, Robert Harrison, and Richard Stout
• Saturday, June 12th: Hunter George, Otis Huband, and Lee Jamison
• Saturday, June 19th: Margie Crisp, Harvey Johnson, William Montgomery, and William Young
• Saturday, June 26th: Randy Bacon, Jon Flaming, and Noe Perez

JON FLAMING SHOWS AT REAVES GALLERY IN HOUSTON A BREAKTHROUGH EXHIBITION BY AN EMERGING MASTER OF THE TEXAS SCENE

William Reaves Fine Art of Houston announces the first signature exhibition of works by Richardson artist, Jon Flaming.  Flaming has been classified as one of the state’s foremost contemporary regionalist painters.  Already firmly established as a practicing artist, the young painter rises to completely new threshold in his exhibition entitled Roads Less Traveled: Jon Flaming’s Texas. This stellar collection of forty fresh works captures small-town landmarks and characters throughout the state, and just in time for spring “road trips”, Flaming’s paintings provide viewers a colorful travelogue of back-roads Texas.  The show is on display at the Reaves Gallery from April 9-May 1, 2010. Collectors who acquire Flaming's work during this show, have a unique opportunity to add a second work at no additional cost, as their names are automatically entered in the gallery's first-ever art raffle. A great way to enhance your Texas collection. Buy a Flaming and get a chance to win a second one free!

The gallery will host several events for patrons during the exhibition, including:

• Collector preview on Friday and Saturday, April 9-10^th from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Gallery will be closed to attend CASETA Friday and Saturday, April 16-17.
• Gallery talk by Dr. Francine Carraro, director of The Grace Museum on Sunday, April 18^th from 2 – 4 p.m.
• Artist reception on Saturday, April 24^th from 5 – 8 p.m.
• Artist talk and art Raffle at the gallery on Saturday, May 1^st from 2 – 4 p.m. 

For more information on the 2010 Annual CASETA Symposium go to www.caseta.org.

For more information  on Roads Less Traveled: Jon Flaming's Texas please contact: 

Bill Reaves, Stephen Gaskin or Sarah Wilson at William Reaves Fine Art

Gallery Address: 2313 Brun Street, Houston, Texas 77019

Gallery Phone: 713.521-7500

E-mail: info@reavesart.com

March 5-27- Harold Bugbee, A Brand of His Own.  We are very excited about the opportunity to bring this show to Houston.  It is a rare collection of Bugbee's western paintings and drawings from 1918-1958, and they go up just in time to celebrate the Community Western Heritage Challenge (in conjunction with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo)!  Bugbee was an important twentieth-century artist working in our state "between the wars".  Aside from Frank Reaugh, Bugbee was one of the very few "Western artists" working in the state during the heyday of the state's ranching economy.  He is truly the "Charlie Russell" of Texas!  

Preview Weekend: Friday and Saturday, March 5/6- 10:00-5:00

Opening Weekend: Friday and Saturday, March 12/13- 10:00- 5:00

Reception: Saturday, March 13- 5:00- 8:00

Week Three: Friday and Saturday, March 19/20-10:00- 5:00

Closing Weekend: Friday and Saturday, March 26/27-10:00- 5:00

Gallery Talk with Michael Grauer: Saturday, March 27- 2:00- 4:00

Please join us as we celebrate our third year with a focus exhibition on Houston artists. Over 35 Houston artists will be represented in our Anniversary Exhibition.

Preview Weekend: Friday and Saturday, February 5-6 from 10:00-5:00

Opening Weekend: Friday and Saturday, February 12-13 from 10:00-5:00

Opening Weekend Reception: Saturday, February 13 from 5:00-8:00

Closing Weekend: Friday and Saturday, February 19-20 from 10:00-5:00

Artists Party: Saturday, February 20 from 2:00-5:00

Gallery is open Friday's and Saturday's from 10:00-5:00 and other times by appointment. Contact us at 713.521-7500.

Water Rites: Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in Texas Art is a rich exhibition, containing fifty great Texas paintings, all of which incorporate water as a significant compositional element. These works span a period from 1896 to 2009, and their images portray virtually every sector of our state. The thirty-eight artists included in this show are among the state’s most significant painters - both past and present. This exhibition also constitutes one of our most beautiful shows to date, offering a collection which will appeal to the aesthetic, as well as environmental sensibilities of our patrons.

 Collector's Weekend: Friday & Saturday, January 8-9 from 10:00- 5:00

Opening Weekend: Friday & Saturday, January 15-16 from 10:00- 5:00

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16, 5-8:00 P.M.

Closing Weekend: Friday & Saturday, January 22-23 from 10:00- 5:00

Gallery is open Friday's & Saturday's and other times by appointment 713.521-7500.

As a means of demonstrating the inherent quality and aesthetic importance of Texas paper, we have decided to mount a significant exhibition addressing the topic.  Our current show entitled, Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, presents sixty-five fabulous works created by forty of Texas’ foremost artists.  These drawings, pastels and watercolors span some seventy years, and portray the artist’s creative style and facility in executing works on paper.  They depict strong Texas subject matter, and while rendered in a broad range of styles and media, all are laid down on the common foundation of paper.

Walk Together Children explores the art work of Texas artist Harvey Johnson, along with simultaneous tribute to his friend and mentor, John Biggers. This show represents the first exhibition of Harvey Johnson's work in almost a quarter of a century, and is the most comprehensive exhibition mounted of his extraordinary expressions. The exhibition will feature thirty of Johnson's works enriched by a selection of a dozen prints by John Biggers, enabling viewers a glimpse of the visual language which both artists employ to create sensitive and poetic narratives of African-American imagery.

Join us at William Reaves Fine Art on Friday's and Saturday's, November 6 thru 21, 2009 or by appointment @ 713 521-7500.

Collectors Weekend: Friday, November 6 and Saturday,November 7 from 10:00-5:00 pm.

Opening Reception: Saturday , November 14 from 5:00- 8:00 pm.

Artist Talk: Saturday, November 21 from 2:00-4:00 pm.

Given our gallery’s affinity for vintageTexas art, we naturally pursued the idea of mounting an exhibition of early paintings by David Adickes. After six decades of work in Houston the bon vivant Adickes is among the city’s most recognizable art personalities, and his works from the fifties through the middle sixties are especiallydistinctive, certainly ranking among the most important of his extensive career! Thus, we were delighted when the artist graciously consented to a show of this nature.

Fifty Paintings from the Formative Period.

Collector's Preview: Friday & Saturday, October 9-10, 10-5 PM. 

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 5-8 PM.

Artist Talk: Saturday, October 24, 2-4 PM.

The Gallery is open on Friday's and Saturday's from 10:00 - 5:00 and other times by appointment :

713-521-7500.

Please join William Reaves Fine Art for the first show of an exciting Fall Season. Texas art underwent a metamorphosis during the middle years of the twentieth century.The two decades between 1945 and 1965 proved to be particularly energetic and creative years for Texas painting. We think you will agree that this show represents some of the very best works of the mid-century "Texas Modern" period. 

ARTISTS INCLUDED

David Adickes/Jack Boynton/David Cargill/Patty Cargill/Bill Condon/Ben Culwell*/Henri Gadbois/William Hoey/Dorothy Hood/Amy Freeman Lee/Leila McConnell/Herbert Mears/Robert Morris/Dimitri Parsons/Robert Preusser/Charles Bert Rees/Bill Reily/Robert Rogan/Charles Schorre/Richard Stout/Stella Sullivan/McKie Trotter/Dan Wingren/ and others

*Shown in collaboration with the Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery

Fridays and Saturdays, September 11-26, 2009- 10AM-5 PM (other times by appointment)

Preview Weekend: Friday-Saturday, September 11-12

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19, 6-9 PM

Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 26, 2-4 PM

Join us this summer at William Reaves Fine Art for the gallery's revolving survey of works by thirty-five early Texas painters! A Texas Sampler offers a fun and interesting summer selection of vintage paintings, including fresh new works as well as some of our favorites from exhibitions past. All presented at special summer prices.

Featured are period works by earlier Houston icons David Adickes, John Biggers, Lamar Briggs, Jack Boynton, Charles Criner, Dorothy Hood, Herb Mears, Richard Stout and Stella Sullivan. These are combined with vintage works by other mid-century masters from across the state, including Bill Reily, McKie Trotter and Joseph Polley Paine. Early twentieth-century works include Jose Arpa, Frederick Browne, Fred Darge and Royston Nave. This show also contains our selection of contemporary Texas paintings from the gallery's Texas Aesthetic group, including Jon Flaming, Hunter George, Robert Harrison, Erik Sprohge and William Young.

A Texas Sampler opens on June 26 and closes on August 15, 2009 with selections changing periodically throughout the summer. As the name implies, this summer exhibition presents Houstonians with a pleasing mixture of important Texas paintings from the 1920's to the present. We invite you to visit the gallery often and to check our website for updates throughout the summer.(www.reavesart.com)

William Reaves Fine Art, a Houston gallery specializing in vintage Texas paintings, announces Texas In Art: The Texas Asthetic II. This show, a reprise of last year's highly successful event, represents the gallery's second survey exhibition of important contemporary Texas artists whose works capture style or subject matter reflective of past Texas masters. This show features an impressive array of 50 works by eight contemporary painters, all considered to be among the best practicing in the state today.

Artists represented in this years exhibition:                                                                                                Randy Bacon, Jon Flaming, Hunter George, Robert Harrison, Travis Keese, Erik Sprohge, Richard Stout, and William Young.

 Richard Stout: "Gulf Coast Communion" presents the upper Texas coast a region of stark beauty, gritty character and Haunting mystique. No artist knows the territory better than Richard Stout. For over seventy years, Stout has engaged in regular pilgrimage to this hallowed ground, sensitively transforming a lifetime of coastal encounters into a gripping body of art work that exquistely captures the essence and mood of the upper Texas coast. This exhibition offers 35 of the artist's most engaging interpretations of his beloved Texas coast all executed between 1950 and 2009. This is a "must see" collection of Stout's work and displays the artist at his very best.

Fine art does present a lasting impression and is truly the gift that keeps on giving! Just in time for the Holiday season, William Reaves Fine Art presents an intriguing array of mid-century Texas works, offered at generous holiday prices. This festive display is certain to bring holiday cheer, with offerings that make for distinctive and memorable gifts. 

Houston art was transformed forever during the fifties, led by a cast of daring, persistent and creative young artists who founded and nurtured one of the most innovative and dynamic art communities in the Southwest. This show features the works of twenty of the artists that we now recognize as Houston Founders, and tells their story of making art in mid-century Houston. This exhibition is a "must see" for avid Houston art patrons, an experience that blends surprisingly fresh art (which holds up quite well over time) with historical meaning and context.

This important exhibition reintroduces Texans to the spectacular early paintings of Fort Worth artist and educator, McKie Trotter. In the 1950's, Trotter was among the leading modernists advancing abstract art in post-war Texas. Applying his own style of abstraction, Trotter painted compelling images capturing the colors, forms and feel of the vast Texas landscape. In the middle years of the twentieth century, he exhibited frequently throughout the state and garnered awards and recognitions in prominent art circles within and outside Texas. William Reaves Fine Art is pleased to bring Trotter's magnificent works back to the public eye in this first exhibition of the artists work since his death in 1999.

 During a long and distinguished career Bill Reily as artist and teacher produced a grand body of work, generatiing splendid and immaginative images in a dazzling array of subject, style and media. In Texas during the 1950's and 60's, Bill Reily pursued his own brand of "modern art", perfecting a distinctive style of abstraction in the midst of old San Antonio. Reily paintings were consistently juried into important local and regional art competitions of this time, and he garnered numerous honors and awards in noteworthy Texas venues. We are confident that our viewers will agree that the artist's contributions to the body of art work now referred to as "Texas modernism" warrent serious attention and greater appreciation.