Peeples, Nina (Mrs. Emile Samuel Guidroz). (1899-1979). B: Emory. D: Fort Worth.Watercolorist, painter, printmaker, graphic artist. Peeples taught art in the Fort Worth, the Dallas public schools, and at the Children's Workshop, Dallas. She began teaching at the Dallas Art institute in 1932. Her creative teaching methods won her international recognition. She was married to artist Emile Guidroz. Her free flowing and intriguing watercolors were described as mystic. She is credited for suggesting the name Cotton Bowl for the famous stadium in Dallas. Studied: College of Industrial Arts, Denton (graduate, 1922); Dallas Art Institute. Member: Dallas Artists League (president); Dallas Art Institute Guild; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts; Texas Fine Arts Association. Exhibitions: Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1931, Landscape, Towers, Futility (watercolors), Ruth, Into the Light (print), 1932, Spring, Late Autumn, Poppy Dream, Loss of Memory (drawings), 1933, Seminoles, Outgoing, Repeal (watercolors), 1935, Staccato, To Emily, Rocks and Sand (watercolors), 1938, The Moon is a Pearl (watercolor), (prize), (group of watercolors) (prize), 1939, Home Again, Summer Day (prize) (watercolor), 1941, Rural Delivery, 1947, After the Rain, Young April (watercolor), 1948, Rocket Flares (watercolor), 1949, Bright October, Student Exhibition, Dallas Art Institute, 1932; Dallas Woman's Club, 1932; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, 1932; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1932, Autumn, (crayon), 1933; Dallas Artists League, 1933; Dallas Art Carnival, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1941;Children's Work Shop, Dallas, 1933 (watercolors); Young Dallas Women Artists, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1934, Seminoles; Thirty-three Dallas Artists, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1935; Thirty Dallas Artists, Dallas School of Creative Arts, 1935, The Davis Farm (scratch lithograph); Circus Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1935; Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, 1937, Once Upon a Time, In These Woods (drawings); Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1938, Saturday Afternoon; No Jury Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1941; Summer Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1944; Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1950; San Angelo General Exhibition, 1952, This Day I Remember (honorable mention); Driskill Hotel, Austin joint with Emile Guidroz); Fort Worth Art Center; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin; Washington, D.C. Delgado Museum, New Orleans; Collections: Dallas Museum of Art, The Moon is a Pearl.