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"Valentine Roses"
Stephen Rascoe

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"Mind's Vacation"
Stephen Rascoe

 

"London Flower Market"
Stephen Rascoe

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"Barbara Admiring Flowers"
Stephen Rascoe

Military Service:  Army Air Force, W.W.II, U.S. based 1942-1946 (influenced by the great western canyons he flew over:  “I have flown over most of the canyons of the Southwest.  The aerial view of a canyon often gives an intense impression of its tremendous size and its dramatic color.”  (comment for ‘Ariel View of Canyon Country with Clouds’ one of three paintings in the book ‘Pecos to Rio Grande: Interpretations of Far West Texas by Eighteen Artists’ published by Texas A & M University Press, 1983).

Education: 
Attended the University of Texas at Austin.B.F.A. and M.F.A. Degrees in Painting from the Art Institute of Chicago. Fine Art Professor, the University of Texas at Arlington from 1964 until his retirement in 1990.

Exhibitions:  (alphabetical order)

Arlington- Arlington Museum of Art;  University of Texas at Arlington Art Gallery; Upstairs Gallery; Arlington Art Association.

Austin- University Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibitions; Laguna Gloria Art Museum; Driskill Gallery; Byliners Club.

Corpus Christi- Centennial Art Museum; Art Museum of South Texas; Corpus Christi Art Foundation; South Texas Art League; Del mar College; University of Corpus Christi.

Dallas-Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions/Southwestern Art Exhibitions; D.D. Feldman Annual Invitational; Southern Methodist University Pollock Galleries, Owen Arts Center; Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Mary Nye Contemporary Art Gallery.

Fort Worth- Galerie Kornye West, “From Dusk Until Dawn”, Invitational, 2004.

Fort Worth- Galerie Kornye West, “Silver Pitcher Show,” Invitational, 2003

Fort Worth- Galerie Kornye West, “Around the World in Eighty Paintings,” 2002. 

Fort Worth- Fort Worth Art Museum; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.

Houston-Annual Exhibitions of Works by Houston Artists, Houston Museum of Art; Temple Emanu El (one of eleven Texas painters invited to create and exhibit a painting); Rice University Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Museum; University of Houston Art Gallery.

Longview- Longview Junior Service League Annual Invitationals.

Lubbock- Texas Tech University Museum, Lubbock.

San Antonio- Invitational Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio.

Waco- Waco Contemporary Arts Museum. 

Outside of Texas:

The Art Institute of Chicago

‘Texas Contemporary Artists’, Knoedler Gallery, New York

‘Art U.S.A.’ Madison Square Garden, New York, New York

Southwestern Artists Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Butler Institute Annuals, Youngstown, Ohio

Sarasota Annuals, Mid-America Annuals, Nelson Gallery, Kansas City

5207 North Western Gallery, Oklahoma City

Denver Art Museum-Annual for Western Artists/Artists West of the Mississippi/ Texas

            Painters (one of seven invited).

One Man Exhibitions:

Fort Worth- One Man Show-80^th Birthday Celebration; Galerie Kornye West, May 2004.

Dallas- Mary Nye Contemporary Art Gallery; Highland Park Town Hall; Whittle Music Company; Pegasus Theatre; Metropolitan Showrooms, World Trade Center; State Fair Music Hall.

Houston- James Bute Gallery; Right Angle Gallery; Dryer Galleries; Nahan Gallery.

Corpus Christi- Corpus Christi Art Association; Centennial Art Museum; Browning Design Center; El Sol Gallery; Little Theatre.

Austin- Laguna Gloria Art Museum; Driskill Gallery; Byliners Club.

Laredo- Vidaurri Galleries; Laredo Art Association.

Kingsville- Texas A & I Art Gallery.

San Angelo- San Angelo College Art Gallery.

San Marcos- Southwest Texas State Teachers Art Gallery.

Waco- Museum of Contemporary Art.

Beaumont- Morehouse Contemporary Arts Gallery.

Arlington- Arlington Museum of Art (the museum’s first show, 1988); Upstairs Gallery; University of Texas at Arlington Theatre.

Major Awards:

Houston Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Award, in the 18^th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts First Purchase Award, in the Texas Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1957.

Friends of Texas Fine Arts Purchase for the Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, 1958.

D.D. Feldman Purchase Award, at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1959.

South Texas Art League, and Corpus Christi Art Foundation Annual Exhibitions, awards six years.

Collections: (Besides those listed, many distinguished corporations, banks, savings and loans, architectural firms, libraries, and private collections throughout the U.S.)

Dallas Museum of Art

Houston Museum of Art

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi

Arlington Museum of Art

Southern Methodist University, Dallas

The University Art Museum of the University of Texas at Austin

Texas Fine Arts Association’s Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin

Texas A & M University Museum, The Frank H. Wardlaw Collection of Texas Art, College Station

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, (eight paintings)

Memory Tech, Plano ( twenty-one paintings)

Publications:

“A Voyage of Discovery”, Dallas Home Design, 2003.

Three paintings included in the book ‘Pecos to Rio Grande: Interpretations of Far West Texas by Eighteen Artists’ published by Texas A & M Press, 1983, Introduction by Ron Tyler, Publisher’s Foreword by Frank H. Wardlaw.

Two series of paintings in ‘Ford Times Magazine’, ‘Bethlehem on the Rio Grande’, December 1961; ‘The Laguna Madre’, June 1963.

Write-ups in ‘House and Garden’ magazine and ‘Southwest Gardner’ in the early ‘60s.

Noted by Eloise Spaeth in her book ‘American Art Museums and Galleries:  An Introduction to Looking’, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1960.

Articles and photographs of paintings in ‘The Shell Pecten’, ‘The Shell News’, ‘English in Texas’ magazine (accompanying poetry), UTA Magazine of the University of Texas at Arlington.

Who’s Who in American Art

Who’s Who in America

Critiques:

‘Mr. Rascoe breaks up his subject matter into planes, both of form and color.  He is possessed of a gorgeous yet sensitive palette.’ –Dallas Times Herald

‘Rich spaciousness, a controlled, yet rich palette, linear variation and accent--.  Carefully planned and skillfully applied color and steady, dry brush—release and Expressionist-like masculinity of attack.’—Corpus Christi

‘His style tends to quietly abstract essentials of form, not starkly or irresponsibly, but boldly, with sinew of structure dominating mood.’—Dallas Morning News