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An example of work by Adele Laure Brunet
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Biography from ARTexas:
| Adele Brunet studied at the University of Texas, the Art Students
League, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibited
frequently in the Fort Worth Annual and the Dallas Allied Arts
exhibitions, and taught at the Palo Duro School of Art in Canyon in the
1930s. One of her paintings, Christoval Road, depicts the road leading to the Texas Artists Camp at Christoval about 1927.
Another oil painting, Foot Bridge at Christoval, circa 1925, was
of the same location. The Foot Bridge, sometimes called the
Swinging Bridge, spanned the Concho over the swimming area and was just
up stream from the dam. In earlier years many a young swimmer
defied prohibitions of jumping from the bridge. This painting by
Brunet depicts a wonderful time in the history of Christoval when it
was the resort for families of Schleicher and Tom Green County farmers
and ranchers who camped under the pecan trees and watched their
children swim in the muddy Concho.
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Biography from AskART:
| Adele Laure Brunet, born on August 10, 1871 in Austin, Texas, had early
ambitions to be an artist. At the age of ten she studied
watercolors with Janet Downie in Austin, and in her early teens she won
a blue ribbon at the San Antonio Fair. Brunet later studied at
the University of Texas and taught at Kenilworth Hall, a girls school
in Austin.
In 1914 Brunet and her sister Josephine left Texas
for Paris, but landed in New York because of the war in Europe.
She remained in New York for 13 years finding work as a costume
designer and illustrator. She eventually studied at the Art
Students League and spent one summer at the Art Institute of
Chicago. She studied portraiture in New York with Henry
Rittenberg and started receiving commissions from Texas patrons.
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1927 the artist moved to Dallas where she continued to sketch, paint
and teach at artists camps. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Brunet
spent her summer and fall months in New Mexico. Brunet also began
to exhibit beginning with a one-person show in San Angelo in 1927 and
numerous group shows including Southern States Art League, Museum of
New Mexico-Santa Fe, Societe des Artistes Francais-Paris, Fort Worth
Museum of Art and the Federation of Dallas Artists.
The artist died May 21, 1963 in Dallas.
Source:
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
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