STELLA LODGE LA MOND (1893–1968) Stella La Mond, artist and teacher, was born on September 30, 1893, in Morganfield, Kentucky, the daughter of John James and Bettie (Taylor) La Mond. She attended Thomas School in Detroit, Michigan, before beginning her career as an art teacher in Fremont, Nebraska, where she taught art in public schools from 1918 to 1924. She entered Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1924 and graduated with a B.S. in 1926. She subsequently became the head of the art department at East Texas State Teachers College (later East Texas State University) in Commerce, Texas, a position she held for ten years. La Mond supplemented teaching with learning throughout her life: she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1930 and attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1944), and the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico (1954). With the help of a Carnegie grant she studied lithography with Coreen M. Spellman in the winter of 1947–48. Her teachers included Alexandre Hogue, George Sheldon Dutch, Arthur Young, and Sallie B. Tannahill. In 1936 La Mond became chairman of the art department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a position she held until she retired with the rank of professor emeritus in 1959. As an artist, she experimented with a number of different techniques and media and developed an expertise in weaving, lithography, and silk screening. In 1940 she helped to found the Printmakers Guild (later the Texas Printmakers), a group originally limited to women, formed with the goals of educating the public about prints and giving women printmakers an opportunity to show and sell their work. The guild successfully operated up to five print circuits for twenty-five years before it was disbanded, at La Mond's suggestion, in 1965. La Mond served as president of the group in 1961 and 1962. She also participated in the Nebraska Teachers Association and served as president of its art section in 1922–23, the Texas State Teachers Association (she was president of its art section from 1936 to 1938), the American Association of University Professors, the College Art Association, the Ceramic Society of the Southwest, Dallas Fashion Arts, the Dallas Print Society, the Dallas Art Association, the Dallas Art League, Tabby and Twill Weavers, and the Craft Guild of Dallas. She exhibited her work annually in the Texas General exhibition and participated in annual exhibitions sponsored by the Southern States Art League and the Texas Fine Arts Association, winning prizes from the latter organization in 1948 and 1949. She won prizes for work exhibited at the International Textile Exhibition (1945), the Dallas Print Annual (1945, 1947), and the State Fair of Texas (1950, 1951, 1954, 1957). She also exhibited her work with the Society of American Etchers in New York City (1947–48), the Central States Graphic Arts Annual in Omaha, Nebraska (1948), and the Library of Congress (1948). Solo exhibitions of her work were organized by Southern Methodist University (1937) and the Dallas Museum of Art (1941); a solo exhibition of her work traveled to three towns in Kentucky in 1942.Stella La Mond generally worked in a realistic style, choosing as her subjects "flowers, animals, [and] landscapes which give me pleasure by their form and color." She considered her residence, built in 1937, to be one of her principal works. The house, designed by architects O'Neil Ford and Arch B. Swank, featured her textiles, ceramics, and paintings, as well as family antiques and furniture handcrafted for her by her father. La Mond also designed and planted the gardens surrounding her home. She died on November 23, 1968. Examples of her work are included in the University Art Collection, Southern Methodist University; the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock; and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana. Her contributions as a founding member of the Printmakers Guild were recognized in a group exhibition, The Texas Printmakers 1940–1965, organized by the Meadows Museum in 1990.Member: Texas Artists Group; Craft Guild of Dallas; Southern States Art League; Dallas Art Association; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (founding member); American Federation of Arts; Dallas Art Association; Dallas Artists League; Texas Designer-Craftsmen; Contemporary Handweavers of Texas; Dallas Print Society; Texas Fine Arts Association; Ceramic Society of the Southwest.Selected ExhibitionsEast Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, 1936, (joint with lone Ruth Franklin); Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936, Cottonwood Tree and Apple Orchard; Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, 1937, Canyon; Southern States Art League, 1937, Church Near Taos, Magnolias, My Living Room (block prints), Tulips (watercolor); Golden Jubilee Exposition, State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1938, Still Life (watercolor);Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth Museum of Art, 1936, Rosaria, 1937, Landscape; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1937, (solo); Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1937, Tulips (watercolor), Mission, Ranchos de Taos (print), Pin (metal work), 1939, County Fair-Kentucky (block print), 1941, The Mesa, 1943, November Norther (watercolor) (prize), Grandmother's Chair (print), China Berries (silkscreen), 1945, (earthenware), 1947, Bowl (ceramic), Lilies (silk screen), 1948, Rocks, The Pinnacle (lithographs); Women Artists of Dallas County, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Private Chapel at Talpa; State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1939, Abundance, 1950, 1951, (weaving) (prize), 1954, (prize), 1957, (prize), 1963, (textile); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1941, (solo), 1949, (solo);Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Summer Harvest (lithograph); Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1941, The Old Road (watercolor), Mission Church (print), 1944, Amaryllis (stencil print) 1945, Negro Girl (silk screen), 1946, Wallflower (lithograph), 1947, Vista del Arroyo (serigraph), 1948, Rocks (lithograph); Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers, 1941, Summer Harvest, The Pool, Mission Church, Chapel (lithographs), Magnolia, Mission Church Taos, My Living Room, Summer Harvest (linocuts), 1942, Mission Church-Ranchos de Taos, Moonlight, Alvin (block print), 1943, 1944, Lilies, Kitty (prize), 1945, 1946, Arroyo Seco, Negro Girl (silkscreen), 1947, Visa del Arroyo, The Sand Pit (serigraphs), 1949, Goldenrod and Aspen, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1961, 1963, 1964; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1941, Joint with Elizabeth Walmsley), including Portrait-Lena; Texas Colleges Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942, The Old Road (watercolor); Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1941, 1942, Moonlight (woodblock), Summer Harvest (lithograph), 1943, Lilies (silkscreen), 1944, Amaryllis (color stencil) (prize), 1945, Negro Girl (silk screen) (prize), 1946, (prize), 1947, The Sand Pit (serigraph) (prize) Wallflower (serigraph); Lithography Exhibition, Oklahoma Arts Center, 1942; Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, Morganfield, 1942, (solo), including Road to St. Ambrose (watercolor); Dallas Little Theater, 1942, Still Life, In South Park; National Academy of Design, New York, 1942; Texas Print Exhibition, 1942, Moonlight (block print), Summer Harvest (lithograph), 1943, Lilies (silk screen), 1944, Amaryllis (color stencil) (prize); Corpus Christi Caller-Times Exhibition, 1944, 1946, 1947, WallflowerSan Antonio Print Society, 1944, (prize);International Textile Exhibition, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1944, (chinaberry design on cotton crash, silk screen), 1945, (silk screen textile) (prize), 1947, 1950, (woven linen), 1952, Spring Salad (fabric); Texas Artists Group, Dallas, 1945, Head (terra cotta);Texas Fine Arts Association, 1945 Amaryllis, 1947, Wallflower (lithograph), 1948, Sand Pit (print) (honorable mention), Vista del Arroyo, 1949, Goldenrod and Aspen (print);Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, 1946, (solo); Southern Methodist University, 1946, (solo); Southern Methodist University Art Faculty Exhibition, Scott Hall, Dallas, 1946, Cottonwood Trees, 1948, 1955, Head (terra cotta); Fort Worth Public Library, 1946; Southwest Art, Mexia Woman's Friday Club, 1947; Estes Park Summer School of Art, Colorado, 1947, (solo); Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 1947; Society of American Etchers, New York, 1947, 1948;Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1948, Vista de Arroyo (serigraph), 1949, Goldenrod and Aspens (serigraph); Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1948;Central States Graphic Arts Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1948;Texas Crafts Exhibition, 1949, Vase, Bowl (pottery), China Berries, Fig Leaves (silkscreen on cotton), 1950, (woven linen runner), 1952, (weaving), 1953, Expressway Lights (silkscreen), Spring Salad (weaving), 1955, In San Miguel (tapestry), Linen runner and napkins (weaving), 1956, (weaving), 1957, Upholstery fabric, 1961, Altar cloth for St. Alban's (weaving); Prints By Texas Women, East Texas State College, Commerce, 1952;Dallas Community Theater, 1958; Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, 1958; Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1958, (prize); Texas Designer-Craftsmen Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1961. Selected Public CollectionsAmon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TXCorpus Christi Art Foundation, Corpus Christi, TX Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, INMuseum of Art, Greensboro, NCNebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TXSouthern Methodist University, Dallas, TXTexas Tech University Museum, Lubbock, TX