Barbara Lucile Maples (1912-1999)Born in Temple, Maples gradated from Baylor College for Women, Belton (1933), and received a master of arts from Columbia University (1939). She frequently taught in a summer camp at Ute Park, New Mexico (1939-49), and studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (summers 1943-45). Maples taught art in the Dallas public schools (1937-64), in the art school of the Dallas Museum of Art (1940-54), and at her mountain cabin in Cripple Creek, Colorado during summers. Subsequently she was head of the department of art education at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1965-78). Maples died in Dallas, and was buried in Temple. B: Temple. D: Dallas.Printmaker, watercolorist, craftsperson, teacher.Dallas. Studied: Baylor College for Women, Belton (1933); Lucile Land Lacy; Columbia University, New York (M.A., 1939); Texas State College for Women, Denton; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (1943-1945); Evaline Sellors. Member: Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (president); Dallas Print and Drawing Society; Southern States Art League; Dallas Craft Guild. Exhibitions: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Lubbock, 1931; Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1938, Harlemite (watercolor); Women Artists of Dallas County, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Seventh Avenue Subway-11 P.M. (watercolor), Iris in Brass; Carter Harrison House, Dallas, 1939, (solo); Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1939, Beautician (watercolor), From the Battery, 1940, Little Old Lady (watercolor), Iris, 1941, Sunflowers (watercolor) (prize), 1942, Oaxaca Doorway (prize), Summer's Farewell, All the Bright Courage (prize) (watercolors), 1943, Rocks and Sea-Galveston, Moonflowers(watercolors), 1944, Satinglass and Fruit, Past Interior (prize), Moonlight (prize) (gouaches), 1945, Moonlight over Rosemont, Pale Moon (prizes), 1946, Vigil (gouache), 1947, Christmas Cactus (gouache) (prize), Sea and Shells, Driftwood(gouaches), 1948, Gourds (gouache), Birds in Space (gouache), Fruit and Fan (watercolor), Hair Drying Time(clay), 1949, Guardian of the Valley, Onion Sack & Fruit (gouaches), 1952, Weather Station on Pelican Island(oil/gouache), Nickie and Friend (gouache), 1953, Rubber Plant (gouache); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1941, (solo), including Siesta in Xochimilco, Market Day-Oaxaca, Oaxaca Doorway, Before Winter, Norther on the Gulf, Iris, Beautician, Harlem Temper, Seventh Avenue Subway, 1943, (solo), 1944, (solo), including Past Interior, Conversation Piece, The Cover Way, Delicate April, Farm Group, Moonflowers, Summer's Farewell, Rocks and Sea, Sunlight on the Pueblo, Brief Span, Early Baking, Against the Cold, Moonlight, Satin Glass and Fruit, Red Coat (watercolors), 1947, (solo), including Driftwood, Forrest Plant, Gourd, Sea and Shells, Winter Birds, Winter Dusk, Taos Fiesta (print); Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, 1941, (solo); Texas-Oklahoma General, 1941; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 1942, (solo) (watercolors); Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1940, Norther on the Gulf (watercolor), 1941, Oaxaca Doorway, Before Winter (watercolors), 1943, These Acres-Lonely Now, 1944, Satin Glass and Fruit (gouache) (honorable mention), 1945, Moonlight Over Rosemont (gouache), Early Spring (gouache), Pale Moon(gouache), 1946, 1950, Fruit, Fiddle and Fan (watercolor); Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers, 1942, Water Carrier of Ixmiquilpan, Sixty-First Street (lithograph), 1943, 1944, Return at Dusk (color block print), Indian Woman, 1945, 1946, High Meadow, Fiesta in Taos (lithographs), 1947, Ranchos de Taos, 1948, Birds in Space, Fruit-Fiddle and Fan (stencil) 1949, Sanctuario de Chimayo, Guardian, 1951, Fish Story, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1963; Southern States Art League, 1944, Moon Flowers, Rocks and Sea (watercolors) (prize), 1946, Study (gouache); Hockaday School, Dallas, 1944, (joint with Lucille Jefferies), including Taos Pueblo, The Acres-Lonely Now; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1944, Return at Dusk (color block print), 1945, High Meadow (lithograph); Scott Hall, Dallas, 1945, (solo) (watercolors), including Farewell to Summer, Angel with Begonia, Miss Johnson's Pink Pitcher, Ghost Town, Cheyenne Canyon, Bill Cole's Little Gallery, Dallas, 1945, Rocks and Sea; Dallas Artists, Fort Worth Public Library, 1946; Museum Staff Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1946, 1952; Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1948, Ranchos de Taos (block print), 1949, 1951, Moonlight over Rosemont-Colorado (lithograph), 1956, Road to the Mountains (etching), 1961, Emphasis (serigraph), 1962, The Shape of Red (serigraph), 1964, Sea Ghosts (block print); Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1950, Fruit-Fiddle and Fan; Texas Crafts Exhibition, 1949, Free form bowl (underglaze), Free form bowl with copper and wire, Woman Drying Her Hair (ceramic), 1953, Bowl II (pottery), 1954, (wood) (prize), (crafts) (prize), 1958, Bowl (black walnut); Dallas Community Theater, 1958; Fiesta of Art, Dallas, 1958, Seashells; Post War Prints: 1946-1959, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, 1959, Summer Madness (color woodblock); Graphic Art Center, Dallas, 1961; Contemporary Religious Art, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, 1966; Southern Methodist University Faculty Exhibition, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1975; Texas Printmakers: 1940-1965, 1 Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1990, High Meadow,(lithograph), Road to the Mountains, (etching), Nickie & The Stutter Blue, (serigraph); Arlington Museum of Art, 1999. Collections: Dallas Museum of Art, Return at Dusk; Corpus Christi Art Foundation, Bear Lake-Colorado(woodblock); Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Sandgrasses. Sources: Grauer; Powers. Roper 253-54