Elizabeth Harter Walmsley (1900-1993)Walmsley was born in Barberton, Ohio, and lived in California, Arizona, and Mexico before settling in Dallas. She graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, with a Baccalaureate in architecture (1922) and worked in St. Louis as an interior designer (1922-30). College, Lindsborg, Kansas, the School of Fine Arts, College, Washington University, St. Louis, the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, and in France and Italy. She taught at Hockaday School (1934-1936) and at Southern Methodist University (1937-1967). She headed the art department (1955-1965). She earned a master of arts from Texas States College for Women, Denton (1947). Her specialties were art history, watercolors, printmaking, interior design, and crafts. Three of her works were exhibited in the 1990 Southern Methodist University retrospective for the Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers, Saturday Night on Hall Street (lithograph), Red Mountain 1, and Red Mountain 2 (serigraphs). Walmsley died in her Dallas home in 1993. Elizabeth Harter Walmsley (1900-1993)(Mrs. Donald C. Walmsley)B: Barberton, Ohio. D: DallasWatercolorist, printmaker, craftsperson, teacher.Dallas. Studied: France; Italy; Washington University, St. Louis (B.S., Architecture, 1922); Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas; School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Southern Methodist University (1936); Texas State College for Women, Denton (M.A., 1947). Member: National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (president); Craft Guild of Dallas; Dallas Print Society; St.Louis Artists Guild; Society of Contemporary Artists; Texas Fine Arts Association. Exhibitions: Dallas Woman's Club, 1932; Joseph Sartor Gallery, 1932, (solo, 1933, (solo),(watercolors), including Night Skyline, Hall Street Holiday, Galveston Beach and Deserted, 1934, (solo); Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1932, Galveston Beach (prize), Orange Street (watercolors), 1933, City Stacks, Our Lady of Guadeloupe, Hall Street Holiday (watercolors), 1935, Forgotten Corner (watercolor), 1941, Forgotten Corner (lithograph) (prize), 1942, Winter Sunshine (watercolor), November, National Highway(prints), 1943, Sunny Day (prints), 1943, Sunny Day (print), 1944, November (print), 1945, Night Drive, Mexican Market (stencils), 1946, Morning News (stencil; State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1934, Side Street, Night Life (watercolors), 1941, Forgotten Corner (lithograph) (prize); Dallas Watercolor Painters, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1935; Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Saturday Night on Hall Street (lithograph); Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1941, (Joint with Stella LaMond), including Forgotten Corner(lithograph), Alumni and Art Student Exhibitions, 1942, (two gouaches), Eight Women Artists, 1946, Faculty Exhibition, 1948, 1951, (Joint with Stella LaMond); Texas Colleges Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1941, (prize), 1942, Changing Neighborhood(lithograph), 1943, Sunny Day (lithograph), 1944, Saturday Night on Hall Street (lithograph), Forgotten Corner(color stencil, 1945, Night Drive, Mexican Market (stencils), 1947, Red Barn (stencil); Lithography Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1942; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers, 1942, Changing Neighborhood, Victorian Survival (lithographs), 1944, Sunny Day, (lithograph), 1946, November, Night Drive(stencils), 1947, Winter Trees, West Texas Evening, 1948, Gulf Sulphur (serigraph), 1949, Taxco Church, 1951, Street Scene, 1961; International Textile Exhibition, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1945; Dallas Artists, Rosemont School, Dallas, 1947; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1949, Taxco Church (print) (prize), 1951, 1952; Texas Ceramic and Textile Exhibition, Dallas, 1949, (silk screen textiles) (honorable mention), 1951, SkeletonLeaves (silk screen), Enamel ash tray; Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1950, Taxco Church (serigraph), 1951, Nuestro Senor de Santa Cruz (lithograph); Prints by Texas Women, East Texas State College, Commerce, 1952. Collections: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Sunny Day (lithograph); McKinney Art Club; Dallas Museum of Art, Forgotten Corner (lithograph); Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, National Highway, The Townsend Plan, Powerline, Sunny Day (lithographs). Sources: Falk; Mallett, Supplement; O'Brien; Powers; Southwest Review, Spring, 1932. Roper 246-247.
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