Harrelle Trantham
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- Harrelle Trantham
- (1900-1992)
- Abilene Artist
- Image Size: 11 x 14
- Frame Size: Unframed
- Medium: Oil on Masonite
- Circa 1930s
- Untitled
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Biography
Harrelle Trantham (1900-1992)
Harrelle
Trantham (1900-1992)
Abilene
ArtistLandscape
Artist, graphic artist, sign painter.Born in
Caps and attended school in Abilene. He
was mostly a self taught artist. He also
studied with Frank Klepper.After a
period in Fresno California, he returned to Abilene in 1929 where he worked as
a sign painter for Dr. Pepper Bottling co.In 1948
he began working at Harding Simmons University, Abilene, as maintenance painter,
retiring in 1965.He
served as a member of the board of directors of the Texas Fine Arts Association
before his death in Abilene.Trantham’s
wife was Ruth Newberry Robins Trantham. (Also an Artist)Exhibitions
Annual
Fort Worth Worth Local Artists show (1939)
Texas
Fine Arts Association (1940-46)
Annual Exhibition of West Texas Artists, Fort
Worth Museum of Art (1940 prize)
Texas-Oklahoma
General Exhibition (1941)
Seven States Art League Annual Exhibition
(1941, 1945-46)
Texas
General Exhibition (1941-46)
Annual
Texas print exhibition, Dallas (1943)
International Print exhibition, Elizabet Ney
Museum Austin (1943)
Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition 1943
Honorable Mention, 1945, 1946 Honorable Mention, (1947)
All West Texas Exhibition Abilene Museum of
fine Arts (1946)
Corpus Christi Caller Times Annual Exhibition
(1946)
Kansas City Missouri Art institute.
CollectionsModern Art
Museum of Fort Worth.
AffiliationsAbilene
Creative art ClubSouthern
States Art LeagueTexas
Fine Arts association
