Dickson Reeder Art

Lovely turquoise expressionist abstract painting by Texas artist Dickson Reeder. Oil on Canvas painting, titled "Geraldine Smaragderine", and dated 1960. Signed and dated in lower right corner. Hung in a silver frame. Artist Biography: Edward Dickson Reeder, artist, was born on February 6, 1912, in Fort Worth, the first child of Dean W. and Edwina (Dickson) Reeder. He began to study drawing and painting with Sallie Blythe Mummert and Sallie Gillespie while still in elementary school. After graduating from Central (later Paschal) High School in Fort Worth in 1930, he left for two years of study at the Art Students League in New York City, where he attended the classes of portraitist Ivan Olinsky, among others. Reeder returned to Fort Worth for a year and in 1933 traveled to Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, where he studied with the portrait painter Wayman Adams. In the mid-1930s Reeder traveled and worked in Ireland, London, and Paris. During this period he began to exhibit his work by participating in the Southern States Art League exhibitions in 1934, 1938, and 1939 and the Biennial at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1939. In Paris he studied abstract painting with Alexandra Exter, who also designed for the Ballet Russe. In 1937 he met Flora Blanc, an artist working with Fernand Leger, and together they studied printmaking at Atelier 17, a workshop run by Stanley William Hayter that was frequented by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró. On December 11, 1937, Flora Blanc and Dickson Reeder were married in New York City. They lived in the Chelsea district painting and illustrating books until 1940, when they moved to Fort Worth. There Reeder painted and taught, first at Texas Wesleyan College and later at Our Lady of Victory...