Margaret Tupper (1888-1979) 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 Society1956 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition1955 Texas Watercolor Society1952-1953 Texas Watercolor Society1951 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition1950 Helen King Kendall Art Gallery, San Angelo, one-woman show1949 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition1943 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition1938 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition1937 Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, TX San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition1936 Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio, one-woman show San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX1935 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX1934 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX1933 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition1931 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX1930 San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX1929 Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TXHonorable Mention1928 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TX1927 Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, TX Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, TXTexas Artists ExhibitionSan Antonio Art LeagueSan Antonio Artists GuildSan Antonio Art LeagueSouthern States Art League Annual ExhibitionAnnual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Houston, TXTexas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition, Columbia UniversityCharleston, South Carolina and Los Angeles