David Brownlow (Am. 1915-)
"Bird on Pole"
Oil on Board 8 x 5

McKie Trotter (Am. 1874 - 1968)
"Untitled"
oil on canvas 54 1/2 x 29 1/2

Reveau Bassett (Am. 1897-1981)
"Ducks in Flight"
oil on canvas 18 x 24

Reveau Bassett
(Am. 1897 - 1981)

A popular wildlife artist, Reveau Bassett was born in Dallas, Texas. His early art training was at the Art Students League in New York where he was a pupil of Joseph Pennell, William Leigh, and Boardman Robinson. He also studied at the National Academy of Design where he would later exhibit.

Lucien Abrams
(Am. 1870 - 1941)

Lucien Abrams, painter, the son of Maj. William Henry and Ella Murray (Harris) Abrams, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 10, 1870. He probably moved to Marshall, Texas, with his parents in 1874; in 1883 the family moved to Dallas. Abrams graduated with a degree in art and architecture from Princeton in 1892 and began his career as an artist. He studied at the Art Students League, New York, from 1892 to 1894, then at the Académie Julien in Paris under Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens.

Thomas Allen
(Am. 1849 - 1924)

Thomas Allen, painter, son of Thomas and Annie G. Allen, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1849. In his second year of business school at Washington University, St. Louis, Allen accompanied his professor, J. W. Paterson, on a sketching expedition to the Rocky Mountains. His notes and sketches from that trip increased his interest in art. In 1871 he went to Paris, then to Düsseldorf, where he studied at the Royal Academy from 1872 to 1876.