BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220313T010000Z DTEND:20220313T030000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Wine & Words – The Art of Texas: 250 Years DESCRIPTION:Chandor Gardens Foundation Inc. is pleased to present a Wine & Words evening on March 12\, 2022\, at Chandor Gardens Mansion\, starting at 7:00 P.M. (Doors open at 6:30) with guest speaker Dr. Ron Tyler presenting: The Art of Texas: 250 Years. \n\n \n\nCome and enjoy a glass of wine while Dr. Ron Tyler shares a summary of beautiful illustrations and insights into how the art of Texas has captured the uniquely Texan culture formed over the centuries.\n\n\n\nRon Tyler is the editor of The Art of Texas: 250 Years\, which tells the deeper story of Texas art\, beginning with Spanish colonial paintings and moving through two and a half centuries of art in Texas.\n\nThe Art of Texas: 250 Years is a ten-by-twelve-inch hardcover book with more than 350 full-color illustrations and fourteen essays written by noted scholars\, art historians\, and curators with the intent to analyze and characterize Texas art on a grand scale. The essays in the book are arranged chronologically by subject\, starting with Tyler's essay on the history of Texas art from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and concludes with an essay by K. Robinson Edwards on "Liberty and Lone Star Modernism" in the twentieth century.\n\n \n\nRon Tyler is the retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth\, Texas (2006-2011). He is former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University (1986-2006)\, during which time he was the editor-in-chief of The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.\; 1996 and now online) and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1986-2004). Before moving to Austin\, he served for eighteen years as Curator of History and Director of Public Programs at the Carter.\n\n \n\nTyler is the author of numerous books on history and art including Santiago Vidaurri and the Southern Confederacy (1973)\, The Slave Narratives of Texas (co-editor\, 1974)\, The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier (1975)\, The Cowboy (photographs by Bank Langmore\, 1975)\, Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land (1983)\, Audubon's Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America (1993)\, Prints of the West (1994)\, and Western Art\, Western History: Collected Essays (2019).\n\n \n\nNote: Ron will be available to sign copies of the book The Art of Texas: 250 Years (a few copies will be available for purchase) after the presentation\, or if you already have a copy bring it with you to have Ron sign it for you. \n\n \n\nTickets are $35 and available online at www.chandorgardensfoundation.org X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Chandor Gardens Foundation Inc. is pleased to present a Wine &\; Words evening on March 12\, 2022\, at Chandor Gardens Mansion\, starting at 7:00 P.M. (Doors open at 6:30) with guest speaker Dr. Ron Tyler presenting: The Art of Texas: 250 Years.
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\nCome and enjoy a glass of wine while Dr. Ron Tyler shares a summary of beautiful illustrations and insights into how the art of Texas has captured the uniquely Texan culture formed over the centuries.
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\nRon Tyler is the editor of \;The Art of Texas: 250 Years\, \;which tells the deeper story of Texas art\, beginning with Spanish colonial paintings and moving through two and a half centuries of art in Texas.
\nThe Art of Texas: 250 Years is a ten-by-twelve-inch hardcover book with more than 350 full-color illustrations and fourteen essays written by noted scholars\, art historians\, and curators with the intent to analyze and characterize Texas art on a grand scale. The essays in the book are arranged chronologically by subject\, starting with Tyler&rsquo\;s essay on the history of Texas art from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and \;concludes with an essay by K. Robinson Edwards on &ldquo\;Liberty and Lone Star Modernism&rdquo\; in the twentieth century.
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\nRon Tyler is the retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth\, Texas (2006-2011). He is former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University (1986-2006)\, during which time he was the editor-in-chief of The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.\; 1996 and now online) and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1986-2004). Before moving to Austin\, he served for eighteen years as Curator of History and Director of Public Programs at the Carter.
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\nTyler is the author of numerous books on history and art including \;Santiago Vidaurri and the Southern Confederacy \;(1973)\, \;The Slave Narratives of Texas \;(co-editor\, 1974)\, \;The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier \;(1975)\, \;The Cowboy \;(photographs by Bank Langmore\, 1975)\, \;Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land \;(1983)\, \;Audubon&rsquo\;s Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America \;(1993)\, \;Prints of the West \;(1994)\, and \;Western Art\, Western History: Collected Essays \;(2019).
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\nNote: Ron will be available to sign copies of the book The Art of Texas: 250 Years (a few copies will be available for purchase) after the presentation\, or if you already have a copy bring it with you to have Ron sign it for you. \;
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\nTickets are $35 and available online at www.chandorgardensfoundation.org LOCATION:Chandor Gardens Mansion 711 West Lee Avenue Weatherford\, TX 76086 UID:e.2477.17505 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260425T171023Z URL:http://business.parkercountychamber.com/events/details/wine-words-the-art-of-texas-250-years-17505 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR