Dallas Nine

The group's core consisted of nine men who had applied to decorate the Hall of State in 1936: Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass and Perry Nichols.[1] Other members in the 1930s and 1940s included Charles T. Bowling, Russell Vernon Hunter, Merritt T. Mauzey, Florence McClung, Allie Tennant, Dorothy Austin, Don Brown, and Lloyd Goff.[4] The group's range of practices included painting, printmaking and sculpture.[1] Works by many of these artists are held at the Bywaters Special Collections at Southern Methodist University.[5]

Nine of the group's members exhibited in 1932 at the Dallas Public Art Museum, in a show titled “Nine Young Dallas Artists.[6][7] They exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and in the 1939 New York World's Fair. A special issue of Art Digest featured their work.[8] In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art presented the exhibition Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, 1928-1945.[2]