"Lake House"

  • Biography

    H. O. Robertson (1886-1970)

    Horace Oakley Robertson (Am. 1886-1970)

    Born in Marion, Illinois, Horace Oakley Robertson was active in Dallas art circles in the 1930’s. He was primarily a self taught painter whose illustrations appeared in several publications, including Ladies Home Journal, Life and London Studios. He was co-owner of a secretarial school in Dallas and a resident of Toledo, Ohio after 1940.

    Exhibitions:
    Annual Allied Arts Exhibition, Dallas (1930-33, 1935, 1937 purchases prize, 1938, 1940, 1941 award, 1943, 1945 award)
     
    Dallas Painters in Oil (1935), Lone Star Regionalism: the Dallas Nine and Their Circle (1985 traveling exhibition), Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

    Horace Oakley Robertson (Am. 1886-1970)

    Born in Marion, Illinois, Horace Oakley Robertson was active in Dallas art circles in the 1930’s. He was primarily a self-taught painter whose illustrations appeared in several publications, including Ladies Home Journal, Life and London Studios. He was co-owner of a secretarial school in Dallas and a resident of Toledo, Ohio after 1940.

    Exhibitions:
    Annual Allied Arts Exhibition, Dallas (1930-33, 1935, 1937 purchases prize, 1938, 1940, 1941 award, 1943, 1945 award)
     
    Dallas Painters in Oil (1935), Lone Star Regionalism: the Dallas Nine and Their Circle (1985 traveling exhibition), Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
     
    Texas Centennial Exposition, Fort Worth (1937)
     
    Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas (1937)
     
    Lone Star Printmakers Circuit Exhibition (1938-42)
     
    American Art Today Exhibition, New York World’s Fair (1939)
     
    Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco (1939-40)
     
    Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition (1941 honorable mention)
     
    Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition (1941-42)
     
    Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas (1943-44 awards)
     
    Texas Panorama Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1943)

    American Federation of Arts (1944 traveling exhibition)
     
    Texas General exhibition (1944)
     
    Philadelphia Art Alliance

    Collections:
    Dallas Museum of Art.

    Affiliations:
    Klepper Sketch Club, Dallas
    Lone Star Printmakers
    Southern States Art League

    References:
    Falk; Mallett, Supplement.
    Stewart, Lone Star Regionalism.
    Who’s Who in American Art 2, 3.