Richard Stout Born 1934

Richard Stout was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1934, coming to Houston in 1959.  He studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and later at the Art Institute of Chicago (1957).  He attained his MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 1974.  From 1959 to 1967, Stout served as an instructor at the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  From 1969 until his retirement in 1996, he served as an instructor and associate professor of art at the University of Houston.

Stout's works have been exhibited by museums in Denver, Oklahoma City and New Orleans as well as by museums in Texas, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Witte Museum, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the El Paso Museum of Art and the Contemporary Arts Museum. In addition he has been exhibited at many university museums including The University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, Rice University, University of Houston, California State University, Long Beach and the University of Michigan.


Submitted by Stephanie Reeves, September 2007

Richard Gordon Stout (b. 1934)

Richard 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

· Purchase Prize 1962 Texas General; Prize 1976 Houston Area Exhibition; Materials Prize 1958 Houston Annual

1958 (December) Materials Award, Apocalypse, oil, 33rd Houston Annual
1962 Purchase Prize, Feast, oil, 24th Texas Annual
1975 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, 1991 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

· 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)

Selected Public Collections

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 Texas at Austin, Texas
Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas