Alma 'Lucille' Jeffries (1903-1950) Painter and graphic artist Alma Lucille Jeffries, known as Lucille Jeffries, was born in Louise, Texas, and grew up in Del Rio and Mission. She graduated, in 1931, from Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton, Texas, where she also worked as a teacher in 1934-1939, after two years teaching at San Marcos Baptist Academy, 1932-33. She continued her studies during summers while teaching, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, New York City. She also attended summer sessions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In 1939 Jeffries began teaching at Mt. Auburn School, Dallas, retiring in 1950. In the 1940s, she taught concurrently at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School. A member of the Texas Printmakers, Jeffries has work is in the collections of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; La Retama Library, Corpus Christi; and Dallas Museum of Art. She died in Dallas. B: Louise. D: Dallas.Painter, printmaker, watercolorist, illustrator, teacher.Belton, Dallas, San Marcos. Studied: Baylor Female College, Belton (B.A., 1931); Columbia University, New York (M.A., 1939); Colorado Fine Arts Center (summers). Member: Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers; Southern States Art League. Exhibitions: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1927, (solo), 1941, (solo), 1942, (solo), 1943, (solo), 1947, (solo), including House on Cachet la Poudre, Young Deer (print), House on Apple Street (all solo exhibitions); Baylor Female College, Belton, 1928; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, 1936, (solo), 1940, (joint with Claire Packer), 1941, (solo), 1943; Women Artists of Dallas County, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Swamp Child, Juicy Salad (watercolors); Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1939, Morning Subway, The Stove (prize) (watercolor), 1940, Old Texas House (orize). 1941. Sewina Woman (watercolor) (prize), 1942, Child with Pink Box, The Dark Looks Lonely In (watercolors), 1943, House on Street (prize), Remembered Silence (watercolors), 1944, Coronado Passed This Way, Home Ranch (prize) (watercolors), 1945, Before Night (prize), Cripple Creek (watercolors), 1946, Near Raton, Timberline (gouaches, 1947, Colorado Landscape, Broccoli (gouache), Cripple Creek (gouache), 1948, Random Harvest, Park at Noon, 1949, Velvet Paws, Waiting, Old Walls (prize); Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton, 1939, (solo), 1941, (solo); Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Junction, Sunday Meeting (watercolors); Texas General/ Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1940,Waterfront, 1941, The Merry-Go-Round (watercolor), 1943, They've Gone to Town (watercolor), 1944, House on Thirteenth Street, Home Ranch (watercolors), 1946, Dream Children (gouache); Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1942, House on 13th Street, The Uncompromising Land, (lithographs), 1944, Western Scene (lithograph) (prize), 1945, Golden Cycle Mill, Young Deer (lithographs) (prize), 1947, Choata, House in Leadville (lithographs); Texas Fine Arts Association, 1941, Two Children (watercolor) (prize), 1942, Come to the Church; Printmakers Guild /Texas Printmakers, 1942, Do-si-do (lithograph), 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, Golden Cycle Mill, Young Deer (lithographs), 1947, Cripple Creek, 1949, Young Rancher, Witte Memorial Museum, san Antonio, 1943, (prints) (solo); Kappa P1, Art Fraternity, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943, (joint with Barbara Maples); Hockaday School, Dallas, 1944, (joint with Barbara Maples), including Earth and Sky and Mexican Funeral; Southern States Art League, 1944; Little Gallery, Dallas, 1945, Pink Earth (watercolor); Mount Auburn School Carnival, Dallas, 1947, (solo); Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1948, 1949, Leadville (lithograph). Collections: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Old Walls, Young Deer (lithograph); La Retama Library, Corpus Christi; Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Jeffries was a native of Mission and Del Rio. She taught art at San Marcos Academy (1932-1933) and Mary Hardin-Baylor College, Belton (1934-1937, summers, 1944-1945). She was a public school teacher in Dallas (1937-1950). Jeffries was on the faculty of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School (1943-1949). Sources: Kovinick and Yoshiki-Kovinick; O'Brien; Powers;Witte Memorial Museum Art Files; The Dallas Morning News, November 14, 1943; Roper, Volume 2, Pages 96-97.