This exhibition features over 100 paintings, sculptures, and objects created in Houston by more than 30 Houston artists from 1945 to 1961, a period of rapid growth that transformed the regional Magnolia City into the internationally known metropolis of Space City. Between the end of World War II in 1945 to the 1961 decision to locate the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Houston, the city underwent radical social and economic changes. The influx of new people, fortunes, and influences impacted all aspects of the city, including the arts.

View works by David Adickes, Gertrude Levy Barnstone, Alan Bean, Forrest Bess, John Biggers, Jack Boynton, Nione Carlson, Gene Charlton, Emma Richardson Cherry, Lowell Daunt Collins, Pat Colville, William (Bill) Condon, Mildred Wood Dixon-Sherwood, Frank Dolejska, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Don Edelman, Frank Freed, Henri Gadbois, Dorothy Hood, Ruth Laird, Paul Maxwell, Leila McConnell, Herbert Richard Mears, Kermit Oliver, Charles Pebworth, Anna Belle Peck, Robert Ormerod Preusser, Stephen Rascoe, Edward (Buck) Muegge Schiwetz, Frances Skinner, Chester Snowden, Erik Sprohge, Richard Gordon Stout, Stella Sullivan, Robert Weimerskirch, MIgnon Weisinger, Dan Wingren, and Dick Wray.

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CHECK OUT OUR CATALOG

• The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists by Robert Craig Bunch
• The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room by Alvia Wardlaw
• Adickes: A Portfolio with Critique by David Adickes
• Alan Bean: Painting Apollo - First Artist on Another World by Alan Bean
• Buck Schiwetz' Memories by E. M. Schiwetz
• Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible by Clare Elliott
• Midcentury Modern Art in Texas by Katie Robinson Edwards
• More than a Constructive Hobby: The Paintings of Frank Freed by William A. Camfield
• Remembering Frank Dolejska: A Memoir by Shirley Nelson
• Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston by Alison de Lima Greene
• Texas Women: Interviews & Images by Patricia Lasher
• Till Freedom Cried out: Memories of Texas Slave Life edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker
• Wildwood Friends by Royal Dixon

EXPLORE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

• Oral History: Gertrude Barnstone, August 6, 1974
• Oral History: John Biggers, September 15 and 19, 1975
• Oral History: Margaret Webb Dreyer, July 8, 1976
• Oral History: Richard Stout, December 4, 1975