Bob Stuth-Wade (American b. 1953)Born in Norfolk, VA; resides in Dublin, TX Bob Wade was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1953 to Robert and Joyce Wade. A month later his father, a naval aviator, died in a training accident in Tunisia. His mother moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, with her infant son to be near family, and married Harry Stuth in 1955. After high school, he acknowledged both fathers with the hyphenated last name, Stuth-Wade. Before he entered grade school, Harry Stuth enrolled Stuth-Wade in an adult art class with Mary Sloan in Corpus Christi. After moving to Dallas, Stuth-Wade's self-directed art education continued while he was a student at Jesuit College Preparatory School under his mentor Perry Nichols. His talent earned him his first one-person exhibition at Fairmount Gallery while he was still a student at Jesuit. He has continued working as an artist for over 50 years, creating an eclectic breadth of work that has been written about by Eleanor Jones Harvey of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Frederick Turner of American Arts Quarterly, Judy Deaton of The Grace Museum in Abilene, Rebecca Lawton of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, and Ramsha Vistro in Artists & Illustrators, a British publication. Best known for luminous Texas landscapes he begins on site, some of Stuth-Wade's favorite subjects include the Colorado River area near San Saba, Texas and Big Bend National Park. With an art career beginning in his teens, the seasoned artist continues his dedication to paint and exhibit regularly with his most notable exhibitions in collaboration with his long-standing gallery partner, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Dallas. Recently two of Stuth-Wade's paintings were selected for The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023, an invitational project resulting in a published book and a traveling exhibition appearing at six museums and benefitting the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. Stuth-Wade has been selected for over twenty solo exhibitions, including notable museum exhibitions at San Angelo Museum of Art in San Angelo, The Grace Museum in Abilene, Jesuit Dallas Museum in Dallas, Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, and Old Jail Art Center in Albany. Selected Exhibitions2026 — What We Inherit: The Art and Legacy of Big Bend, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2025 — Bob Stuth-Wade: Capturing Landscapes, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TexasStanding at the Summit: Paintings by Bob Stuth-Wade, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TexasThe Land and Those Upon It: Regional Expressions by 22 Texas Artists, J. Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2024 — For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TexasBotanical, An Invitational Exhibition in Celebration of our 70th Anniversary, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2023 - 2024 — The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023, touring museum exhibition: Bullock Texas History Museum, Austin, Texas; Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas; Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; and Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas. 2022 — Bob Stuth-Wade: The Comfort of Trees, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2021 — Contemporary Texas Landscapes, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TexasTogether: 23rd Annual Membership Exhibition, The MAC, Dallas, Texas 2020 — On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasThe Texas Aesthetic: Virtual Exhibition, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas 2019— Bob Stuth-Wade: “Whatever you do, that which makes you feel most alive, that is where God is” (Saint Ignatius of Loyola), Jesuit Dallas Museum, Dallas, TexasThe Texas Aesthetic: Thirty Contemporary Artists Redefining Texas Art, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TexasState of Contrast, curated by Foltz Fine Art and Kinzelman Art Consulting, Bank of America, Houston, Texas Storied Lands, Contemporary Texas Landscape Painters, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TexasBird Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasGifts from The Collectors Circle, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TexasThe Collectors Show, Galerie Kornye West, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas 2018— Bob Stuth-Wade: Painting in Earnest, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasThe Fine Art of Collecting: Selections from the Judge B. Michael and Elise Chitty Collection, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas 2017 — TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2015 — Menagerie, Art and the Animal Kingdom, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas 2014 — Bob Stuth-Wade: Knocking from The Inside, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasMasterful Marks: An Exploration of the Medium of Drawing, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasSummer Cut, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasSalon Series: Painting in the Texas Tradition, Turner House, Dallas, Texas 2013 — Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TexasThe Texas Aesthetic VI: Lone Star Heritage in Contemporary Texas Painting, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TexasLike: Artists inspiring Artists, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas (invited by Pat Gabriel)A Tribute to Texas Rivers, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston, TexasRestless Heart: Early and Contemporary Texas Regionalism, curated by Howard Taylor, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas 2012 — Respect: Artists Invite Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2011 — Bob Stuth-Wade: Landforms, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TexasAll About Texas: Bob Stuth-Wade: Painting Texas, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TexasThe Good Earth, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasFresh & Salty (a Valley House Gallery group exhibition), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas 2010 — Drawing on the Past: Selections from the Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, curated by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TexasBob Stuth-Wade: Painting Texas, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasShorelines, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2009 — Thank You, Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Group Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas 2008 — Texas Tour: 100 Years of Texas Landscape Painting, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2007— Bob Stuth-Wade: Born by Water, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2006 — Shared Visions: Texas Artists Then and Now, curated by Paul Harris (traveling exhibition: Arlington Arts Center, Galveston Art Center, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas)Summer Show, group show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas Texas: A Land Revealed, Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas 2005 — Art in the Key of Green, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasValley House Exhibition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LouisianaKenneth Threadgill Concert Series Artist Invitational Exhibition, Municipal Auditorium, Greenville, Texas 2004 — Bob Stuth-Wade: From Bend to Bend, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas6th Annual Stars of Texas, juror: Karl Umlauf, Depot Civic and Cultural Center, Brownwood, Texas (Juror’s Award) 2002 — Beyond the Apple & Bottle: Still Life Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2001— Bob Stuth-Wade: Paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2000 — Dallas International Art & Antique Fair, The Dallas International Pavilion at Victory, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1998 — The Figure: An Invitational Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1997— Bob Stuth-Wade, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasTexas Natural Wonders, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1996 — Bob Stuth-Wade: Recent Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1995 — Drawing to a Close, group show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasArt of the Garden, The Art Center, Waco, Texas 1994 — 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1993 — Bob Stuth-Wade: Paintings and Watercolors, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1992 — 20th Anniversary Exhibition, 1972 – 1992, The Art Center, Waco, Texas20th Anniversary Exhibition 1972-1992, The Art Center, Waco, TexasRecent Works By, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1991— Bob Stuth-Wade: Paintings of the Texas Landscape, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TexasGroup Show, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas 1990 — Bob Stuth-Wade and Friends, Group Show, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas33rd Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, NY, Juror: Jeremy Strick24th Annual Juried Art Show, Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival, Alexandria, Louisiana, Jurors: Ted Barnes, Billy Bryant, Jackson Pittman Lewis 1989 — Waco Art Center, CompetitionGroup Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1987 — Solo, Clyde Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Stephenville, TexasRealism 1987, Austin, Texas, Betty Moody, jurorTexas Fine Arts Association, Atrium Gallery, Moody Hall, St. Edward's University, TexasLongview Invitational, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas 1986 — Two-Person Show, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TexasSolo, Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas 1985 — Texas Visions, Art League of Houston, Texas (traveling exhibition: The Museum of Art of the American West, Houston; Live Oak Art Club, Columbus; Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene; Lufkin Historical and Creative Art Center, Lufkin; Rockport Art Center, Rockport; McAllen International Museum, McAllen; Fort Bend County Museum, Richmond, Texas)Twenty-sixth Invitational Art Exhibition, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Award, Longview, Texas, Paul Harris, juror 1984 — Summer Festival 1984, Montana Institute of the Arts, Polson, Montana, Frederick Wong, AWS, juror 1983 — The Art Center 1983 Competition, Waco Art Center, Waco, TexasGroup Show, Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas 1982 — Group Show, Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas 1980 — New Talent: Five Texas Artists, Delahunty, Dallas, Texas 1978 — Group Show, Oura Inc., Dallas, Texas 1977 — Solo, Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1972 — Solo, Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, Texas Selected CollectionsAmerican General Life Insurance Co., Galveston, TexasBallinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, North County Mayo, Republic of IrelandBaron & Budd, Dallas, TexasBen E. Keith, Co., Dallas, TexasBNSF Railway Company, Fort Worth, TexasBrookhaven Country Club, Dallas, TexasBrown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Dallas, TexasCafe Pacific, Dallas, TexasDallas Country Club, Dallas, TexasFulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TexasHarte Hanks Communications, San Antonio, TexasHilton Austin, Austin, TexasJesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas, TexasKillam Oil Company, Laredo, TexasMary Kay Cosmetics Inc., Dallas, TexasMesa Design Group, Dallas, TexasRiverstone LLC, Houston, TexasSan Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TexasSilver Eagle Distributors, L. P., Houston, TexasSmith, Douglass, and McConnico, Austin, TexasThe Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas Literature: John A. Spriggins and Michael Grauer, The Land and Those Upon It: Regional Expressions by 22 Texas Artists (College Station, Texas: J. Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, 2025), pages 9-10 and pages 56-57. Bob Stuth-Wade: Capturing Landscapes, OJAC, Spring 2025, p. 5. “For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape,” The Grace, Spring 2024. Ramsha Vistro, “Bob Stuth-Wade,” Artists & Illustrators, March 2024, United Kingdom, pp. 16-21. Andrew Sansom and Linda J. Reaves,The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023, Texas A&M University Press, 2023. “State Parks Art Exhibit to Travel Texas”, Glasstire, January 13, 2023. Bob Stuth-Wade, essay by Rebecca Lawton, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 2018. 2016 Collectors Circle, event brochure, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, May 1, 2016, Mounting Heaven no. 3 reproduced. Kathy Lawrence, “Jesuit Grad Turns to Nature for Inspiration,” Preston Hollow People, March 2015, Community section, page 30. Paige Skinner, “Artist Bob Stuth-Wade is Valley House Gallery’s Newest Exhibition Artist,” Addison Magazine, November 20, 2014, One Road reproduced. Available from http://www.addisonmagazine.com/2014/11/artist-bob-stuth-wade-is-valley-house-gallerys-newest-exhibition-artist/ Tim Madigan, “The Shared Artistic Journey of Luke Wade and His Dad,” Anything Mentionable: The Blog, November 19, 2014, Now Above the Desert and Las Tres Gunas From a Distance reproduced. Available from http://timmadigan.net/blog/post.php?s=2014-11-19-the-shared-artistic-journey-of-luke-wade-and-his-dad Michael Granberry, “Art Notes: The father is a local artist, the son rises on ‘The Voice’,” The Dallas Morning News, November 16, 2014, Guide section, page 5E, Now Above the Desert reproduced. Available from http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/michael-granberry/20141114-the-father-is-a-local-artist-the-son-rises-on-the-voice.ece 60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; Las Tres Gunas from Tuff Canyon reproduced. Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, exhibition catalogue with essay by Michael R. Grauer, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, 2013, pp. 1,3, 5, 7, 10, 44, 45, 49. Amanda Ashby, “Stuth-Wade and Wade to demonstrate art techniques,” Brownwood Bulletin, February 2, 2013, p. 1-2. From the Curator: Bob Stuth-Wade: Landforms, exhibition pamphlet with essay by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, 2011. Frederick Turner, “The Eyes of Texas: Texas Art and Texas Light,” American Arts Quarterly, published by The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York), Summer 2010, Volume 27, Number 3, pages 27-33. Drawing on the Past: Selections from the Bobbie and John Nau Collection of Texas Art, exhibition catalogue with essay by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, 2010. “Psst, buddy. Want a print?,” San Antonio Current, March 22-28, 2006, p. 17, Trails Turning reproduced on page 17. “The Essential Guide: Global Inspiration,” Southwest Art, January 2006, page 98, Red Flag Wind reproduced on page 8 and 98. ART in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Riyadh, U.S. Department of State, November 2005, Distant Road reproduced on cover and page 43. Mike Daniel, “Bob Stuth-Wade at Valley House,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, September 10, 2004, page 53. Bob Stuth-Wade: From Bend to Bend, catalogue, with essay "Bob Stuth-Wade: Inside the Creative Process" by Eleanor Jones Harvey of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2004. 50th Anniversary, catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, color illustration, 2004. Marilyn Robitaille, Donna Walker-Nixon, editors, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, cover illustration: Ragged Moth, 2004. Carolyn Poulter, Marilyn Robitaille, James Lee Ward, Donna Walker-Nixon, editors, New Texas 2002, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor, Belton, Texas, 2002, cover illustration: Light at the Top. “Texas: The Best of the West, Bob Stuth-Wade One Man Show,” Southwest Art, November, 2001. Mike Daniel, “Parent’s perspective comes first for artists,” The Dallas Morning News, August 29, 1997, Guide section, page 53. 40th Anniversary, catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, color illustration, 1994. Daryl Watson, “In The Gallery: Artist maintains a balance of traditional and contemporary,” Stephenville Empire-Tribune, January 25, 1987, pages 1B and 8B. Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, October 1980. Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, April 16, 1977. Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, February 26, 1972. Lorraine Haacke, The Dallas Times Herald, February 6, 1972. Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, April 10, 1971.