Mary L. Lightfoot (1889-1973)B: Ravenna. D: Paris.Painter, pastelist, craftsperson, sculptor, printmaker, watercolorist, teacher.Amarillo, Dallas, Paris. Studied: College of Industrial Arts, Denton (B.A.); North Texas State Teachers College, Denton; Columbia University, New York (M.A.). Member: Dallas Print Society; Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers (founding member); Dallas Art Association; Texas Fine Arts Association; Paris Art Club. Exhibitions: Dallas Allied Arts Exhibition/Dallas County Exhibition, 1928, Cat, 1929, (ceramics) (honorable mention), Watercolor Study, Gargoyle Fountain Head (sculpture), 1937, (mural panel), The Development of Pottery, 1941, Savannah (sculpture), 1942, Hondo Valley (print), 1944, Hondo Valley (print), First Church (lithograph), 1946, First Church (lithograph); Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, 1936, Still Life; Women Artists of Dallas County, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, Hondo Valley; No-Jury Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, (pastel), 1941; Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1940, Banana Plant (lithograph), 1944, Talpa Valley (lithograph); Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, 1941, Street Scene in Taxco (lithograph), Still Life; Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas, 1942, Savannah (lithograph), 1943, Church at Talpa (lithograph), 1944, Road to Cripple Creek (lithograph), 1945, First Church, Red Rock Canyon (lithographs); Printmakers Guild/Texas Printmakers, 1941, Banana Plant, Taxco, 1942, Church at Talpa, Savannah (lithographs), 1946, Road to Cripple Creek, Ore Mill (lithographs), 1947, George, Junior (lithographs), 1949, Road to Riverby, 1954, 1964; Douglass Gallery, Dallas, 1942; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1944, First Church (print) (prize), 1945, (lithograph); National Print Exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., 1945; Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1951, Texas Ranch (lithograph); Paris Art Fair, 1959, Road to Cripple Creek, 1960, Junior, Colorado Mountains, Gargoyle (prizes); Philadelphia Print Club. Murals: Crozier Tech, Dallas, The Development of Pottery, (joint with Lura Ann Hedrick). Collections: Dallas Museum of Art, Road to Cripple Creek (lithograph). Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Street Scene in Taxco, Hondo Valley and Street Scene in Taos (lithographs); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Savannah (lithograph) Lightfoot was born in Ravenna and held a baccalaureate from College of Industrial Arts (now the Texas Woman’s University), Denton. She attendeed North Texas State Teacher College, Denton, and received a master of arts from Columbia University. She taught in the Dallas public schools until retirement, studying several summer in Europe and in Taos. Lightfoot art taught in Amarillo, Paris, and in Dallas. She was one of eight founding members of the Printmakers Guild. Beginning in 1941, the club held annual exhibitions to showcase their art and offer it for sale. The exhibitions, which were held in Texas and across the United States, granted significant exposure to the group and fostered the success of its members. Renamed the Texas Printmakers in 1952, the organization included numerous artists who became professional artists and taught art in schools and universities. Lightfoot died and was buried in the North Texas town of Paris where she had resided for the fifteen years preceding her death. Sources: Dawdy; Kovinick and Yoshiki-Kovinick; Mallett, Supplement; Powers; Stewart; Texas Fine Arts News, June 12, 1945. Roper 186.