"Railroad Tracks" San Antonio Circa 1930
From the Bill Cheek Collection.
This painting was exhibited in 2002 at the following museums:
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art
International Museum of Art. El Paso
This painting was exhibited in 2003 at the following museums:
Panhandle-Plains
Art Museum of South Texas
Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine
This painting was exhibited in 2004 at the following museums:
International Museum of Art & Science of Mcallen
Irving Arts Center
Museum of the Southwest
This paintings was exhibited in 2004 at the following museum:
Tyler Museum of Art
Born in San Angelo, Texas, Margaret Tupper became a landscape painter who remained in Texas but traveled widely including to France, Spain, Switzerland, England and Mexico, where she studied in San Miquel de Allende.
She was the daughter of prominent parents in San Angelo and showed little interest in art as a child. She graduated from San Angelo High School and then attended a finishing school. In 1907, just out of school, she married Clifton Tupper, a founder of the San Angelo Evening Standard newspaper. Four years later they moved to Waco, Texas, and in 1912, they moved again, this time to San Antonio where they lived for 25 years until his death in 1938. Then she returned to San Angelo for the remainder of her life. She taught art classes, served as President of the San Angelo Art League, and continued painting until two years before her death at age 92.
It was in San Antonio that she began nurturing her art talents, first as an avocation and then as a serious fine-art painter. She was a student of Dawson Dawson-Watson, Jose Arpa, Jacob Getlar Smith, Frederic Taubes, and Xavier Gonzalez. In 1929, she traveled to Paris, where she painted at the Louvre, and subsequently she did more extensive travel. However, she often expressed a preference for subject matter of her own region. She said: "It is Texas I live in and of Texas I prefer to paint." (Kovinick 310). Her subjects included Texas wildflowers, ranches, missions and other historical subjects such as The Alamo. Her style was primarily representational although occasionally she did abstraction.
Exhibitions:
1959 Texas Watercolor Society
1956 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition
1955 Texas Watercolor Society
1952-1953 Texas Watercolor Society
1951 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition
1950 Helen King Kendall Art Gallery, San Angelo, one-woman show
1949 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition
1943 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition
1938 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
1937 Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, TX
San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
1936 Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio, one-woman show
San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1935 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1934 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1933 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
1931 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1930 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition
Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
1929 Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TX
Honorable Mention
1928 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TX
1927 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX
Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TX
Texas Artists Exhibition
San Antonio Art League
San Antonio Artists Guild
San Antonio Art League
Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition
Annual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Houston, TX
Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition, Columbia University
Charleston, South Carolina and Los Angeles