DAN WINGREN (1923-1999)Dan Wingren was born in Dallas in 1923. Wingren taught at Southern Methodist University (1946-1947), the University of lowa (1948-1950), and the University of Texas, Austin (1950-1958). He was the director of the San Antonio Art Institute in 1959 and taught at Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1959-1991). Wingren was awarded the Catherwood Foundation Traveling Fellowship in 1957. After returning to Dallas from San Antonio, Wingren taught classes at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School. He lectured on art in numerous venues. His work appeared in The Texas Gulf Coast: Interpretations by Nine Artists, 1979. His archive are housed at SMU, consisting of Wingren's figure drawings and a sketchbook from his tour to France and Italy in the mid-1950s, his class lecture notebooks, and his manuscript, Design and the Visual Image. Studied: Southern Methodist University (B.A., Art, 1947); Jerry Bywaters; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts School; Otis Dozier; Sul Ross State Teachers College, Alpine; State University of Iowa, Ames (M.F.A.); James Lechay; Mauricio Lasansky; Byron Burford; Hal Lotterman; William S. Hecksher. Member: Texas Watercolor Society; Texas Fine Arts Association; A Few Moderns, Dallas. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights• 1923, Born in Dallas, Texas• Served in U.S. Army during WWII• B.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas• M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa• Serves in U.S. Army in World War II• 1953, Receives Pearl Brewery Award for Solar Eclipse, Texas Watercolor Society Circuit Exhibition• 1959-81, Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas• 1981-90, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas• Works as an art consultant• 1999, Dies in Dallas, Texas Selected Exhibitions• 1948, 1st Southwestern Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas• 1948, 10th Annual Texas General Exhibition• 1953, Texas Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas• 1954, 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas• 1956, 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas• 1958, Dan Wingren: Paintings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas• 1959, Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts; Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas• 1963, Gallery Gardens, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas Selected Public CollectionsDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TXCarnegie Museums of Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PALongview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TXMarion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TXMuseum of Modern Art, New York, NYSouthern Methodist University, Dallas, TXThe Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, FranceWitte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX