Richard Gordon Stout (1934-2020)

Richard Gordon Stout was born in 1934 in Beaumont, Texas. He quickly discovered his interest in art and, while still in high school, studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati during summer visits with family in Ohio. Stout received a scholarship to attend the School of Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his bachelor of fine arts degree. He completed graduate studies and earned his master of fine arts degree at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1959 to 1967, Stout was an instructor at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. After completing his MFA, he began teaching art at the University of Houston, a career he maintained until his retirement in 1996.

Selected Biographical and Career Highlights:

1934 Born in Beaumont, Texas

1952–53 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio

1957 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1957 Yale-Norfolk, Norfolk, Connecticut

1959–67 Faculty, Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1968 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1969 MFA, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

1969–96 Professor, University of Houston, Texas

1976 Travel Grant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2004 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston, Texas

2010 Artist of the Year, Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA)

Resides in Houston, Texas

Selected Prizes, Awards:

1958 Houston Annual: Materials Prize

1962 Purchase Prize Texas General

1976 Prize Houston Area Exhibition

Selected Exhibitions:

1951-52 Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas

1952-53 Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio

1953-57 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1955–78 Tri-State Annual, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas (regular exhibitions)

1956 The 1014 Art Center, with Jack Beal, Chicago, Illinois

1957 Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1957 Denver Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition, Denver, Colorado

1957 Momentum, Mid-Continental Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

1957-58 Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1957-58 Cushman Gallery, Houston, Texas

1958 Solo, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas

1958 Texas Oil ’58, A Salute to the Oil Industry of the State by Texas Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Bank of the Southwest, Houston; Dallas Public Library, Dallas; Republic National Bank of Dallas, Texas (catalogue)

1958 (December) 33rd Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (materials award)

1958-59 Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1958-60 New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas

1959 Solo, New Arts Gallery, Houston, Texas

1959 34th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1959 Solo, Hayden Calhoun Galleries, Dallas, Texas

1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)

1960 Delgado Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana

1960 35th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1960 Butler Institute of American Art, Annual, Youngstown, Ohio

1960 American Provincetown Exhibition, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1960-61 Fifth International Hallmark Art Award Exhibition, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas in 1961

1960-70 Sun Carnival Annual Exhibition, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

1960-80 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas and New York, New York

1961 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1961 Solo, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas

1961 Second Triennial of Original Watercolor Graphics, Basel, Switzerland

1961-70 Oklahoma Annual Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1962 24th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1962–1963, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (purchase prize)

1962–63 Museum School Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1963 13th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963–1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas

1963–85 Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas (solo and group exhibitions)

1964 Houston Dimension Exhibition, Houston, Texas

1964 Festival of the Bible in the Arts, Temple Emanuel, Houston, Texas

1964 Solo, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1965 Texas Painting & Sculpture Annual, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

1966 100 Contemporary American Drawings, Museum of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1967-80 Faculty Exhibition, University of Houston, Texas

1968 Solo, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

1968 The Sphere of Art in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Commission, Texas Pavilion, Hemisfair ‘68, San Antonio, Texas

1968 Solo, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas

1968–70 Contemporary American Art, U.S. Department of Commerce, toured Australia

1970 Award Winners Exhibition, Museum of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1970 The Larger Canvas, RepublicBank, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1970 The Highway, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1970-71 Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas

1971 Solo, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas

1971 Other Coasts Exhibition ‘71, California State University, Long Beach, California (catalogue)

1971 Larger Canvas Two, RepublicBank, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1971 Main Street One, City of Houston, Texas

1971 New Works of Former Award Winners, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, traveling exhibition

1972 Three Americans, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, traveling

1973 Solo, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (catalogue)

1973 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas

1974 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

1974 Davis and Long Gallery, New York, New York

1975 Richard Stout: Recent Paintings, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1975 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas (catalogue) prize

1975 Five Painters, Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

1976-78 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas

1977 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas

1977 Texas Twenty, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas

1977 Art Today: U.S.A. III, Tehran, Iran

1977 International Art Fair, Cologne, West Germany

1979 Doors: Houston Artists, Alley Theatre, Houston Festival, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1979 Achenbach & Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, West Germany

1980 Solo, Jurgen Schweinebraden, Berlin, Germany

1980 Man and the Environment, International Graphic Portfolio, 50 invited artists, Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, Germany (catalogue)

1980 Eros, Julius Hummel Kunsthandlung, Vienna, Austria

1980 Gallerie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland

1981 Gallerie de Arti Pellegrino, Bologna, Italy

1982 Art from Houston in Norway 1982, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway; Tromso Kunstforening, Norway; Christiansand Kunstforening, Norway; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue)

1983 Solo, Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York

1983 Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (catalogue)

1983 Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1983 New Art From a New City: Houston,Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria, traveled to: Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany (catalogue)

1984 Solo, M.S.C. Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

1984 1984, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, traveled to: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc. (MoMA PS1), Queens, New York; Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (catalogue)

1985 The Avant Old Guard, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas

1985 Works on Paper: Eleven Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1985 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas

1986 The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1987-89 Solos, W. A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas

1988 Houston ’88, 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas

1988 McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

1988 Drawn from Life, Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas

1988 Texas Art: An Exhibition selected from the Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Trustee's Collection of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Menil Collection Richmond Hall, Houston, Texas

1989 Looking at Color, Transco Tower, Houston, Texas

1989 The Food Show, Grand Central Galleries, New York, New York

1989 Texas Figurative Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

1991 Texas Art Celebration ’91, Assistance League of Houston, Texas

1991 Solos, W. A. Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas

1992 Island Inspired, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas

1993 Conventional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

1993 Texas Art Celebration ’93, Assistance League of Houston, Texas

1994 Solo, Richard Stout’s Paintings, Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas

1995 Faith in Vision, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas

1996 Solo, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas

1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas

1996 Texas Modern and Postmodern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

1997 Solo, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

1997 Richard Stout: Structures of Intimacy, Houston, Texas

1997 Richard Stout: Paintings & Drawings, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas

1998 Richard Stout, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas

1998 Richard Stout: Paints, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

1998 Richard Stout: Paintings, Mulcahy Modern, Dallas, Texas

1999 Richard Stout: Intimate Journey, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas; Brevard County Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, Florida (catalogue)

1999 Richard Stout: Vernacular of Beauty, Houston, Texas

2000 Richard Stout, Art Museum of Melbourne, Florida

2000 Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas

2001 Richard Stout: In Pursuit of the Sublime, Pillsbury and Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2003 Richard Stout: Recent Work, Pillsbury and Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2004 Richard Stout: Approaching the Limits of Space, Houston, Texas

2004 Richard Stout: Texas Artist of the Year 2004, Art League of Houston, Texas

2004 Richard Stout: 2004 Texas Artist of the Year, Chase Bank Heritage Hall, Houston, Texas

2004 A Selection of Art Made in Houston 1950-1965, Brazos Projects, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, Texas

2004 Richard Stout: New Photogravures, Tembo Collaborative Studio, Houston, Texas

2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2006 Houston Art in Houston Collections: Works from 1900 to 1965, Heritage Society Museum, Houston, Texas

2006 Richard Stout: Recent Paintings, Sculpture, Photogravures, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas

2006 Richard Stout: The Arc of Perception, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas

2007 Jack Boynton and Richard Stout: Early Works in Houston, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935-1965),Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (catalogue)

2009 Painting West Texas: 35 Artists/100 Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

2009 Solo, Gulf Coast Communion: 35 Impressions of the Texas Coast 1950-2009, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

2009 A Texas Sampler: Vintage Paintings by Thirty Texas Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2009-10 The Texas Aesthetic: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2009 Back to the Future: Elements of “Modern” in Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2009 Texas Paper: Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings from the Lone Star State, 1938-2008, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2009–10 Texas Art Seen, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas

2010 Water Rites: Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2010 Richard Stout: Alternate Realities, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas

2010 Third Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Houston Artists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2010 Richard Stout Paintings—Sky, Sea & Earth, UAC Gallery, Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas

2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2010 Texas Collages: A Tribute to Kurt Schwitters, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2011 Southeast Texas Art: Cross-Currents and Influences 1925–1965, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

2011 Richard Stout: Painting and Sculpture from 2010 and 2011, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas

2011 Lone Star Modernism: A Celebration of Mid-Century Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2011 Richard Stout: The Early Years, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2011 Portrait of Houston: 1900–2011, Alliance Gallery, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas (catalogue)

2011 Breakthrough: Sixty Years of Texas Abstraction, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2012 A Survey of Texas Modernists, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2012 Texas Expressionism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2013 Restless Heart: The Collectors’ Quest to Find Texas in Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

2013 A Tribute to Texas Rivers, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2013 Rhythms of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2013 Richard Stout: The Last Home Show, Artist’s home, Houston, Texas

2013 Summer Encore Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2013 Lives Played Out on Canvas: Paintings by Otis Huband, Richard Stout and Dick Wray, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2014 Houston Founders at City Hall Art Exhibition, City Hall, Houston, Texas

2014 Pursuit of the Sublime: The Art of David Cargill & Richard Stout, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2014–15 Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the American Southwest, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

2014 A New Visual Vocabulary: Developments in Texas Modernism 1935-1965, One Allen Center, Lobby Gallery, Houston, Texas

2014 Lone Star Masters of Modernism, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2015 Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalogue)

2015 Texas Modernists, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas

2015 Return to the Sea: Recent Works by Richard Stout, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2016 Texas Originals: Six Bayou City Expressionists, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2016 This WAS Contemporary Art: Fine and Decorative Arts in Houston, 1945-1965, curated by Randy Tibbits and Tam Keihnhoff, The Heritage Society, Houston, Texas

2017 Transient Views: The Places of Our Lives, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2017 Houston’s Expressionist Legacy: Richard Stout & Friends, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2017-2018 Richard Stout: Sense of Home, traveling exhibition: Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; and The O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas

2017-2018 A Food Affaire: Ceramics by Henri Gadbois & Still Lifes by Richard Stout, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2018 South and North of the Border: Houston Paints Mexico,curated by Randy Tibbits and Tam Keihnhoff, The Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas

2018 South and North of the Border: Houston Paints Houston, curated by Randy Tibbits and Tam Keihnhoff, The Heritage Society, Houston, Texas

2018 Transformed: Jack Boynton & Richard Stout, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2019 The New Show, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2019 The Next Show, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

2019 Modernist Visions of the Southwest, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas

Selected Public Collections:

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

Kupferstichkabinett, Museum of Fine Art, Dresden, Germany

McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

University of Houston, Texas

University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

University of Texas at Austin, Texas

Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas

Richard Stout - Early Works

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