biography

(1916-2004)

Doris was born in Allen, TX, grew up in Dallas and attended Texas Women’s University in Denton, Tx. She moved with her family to Corpus Christi, Tx. where she first taught art then had a professional career as an artist for an advertising agency. She had her own one-woman agency before retiring.

From the 1950s on she established herself as a respected watercolorist and later abstract artist in the coastal bend. She was a member of the South Texas Art League, Southwest Watercolor, Texas Fine Arts Association, Texas Watercolor Society, and the Art Community Center of Corpus Christi.

 

She exhibited and won awards for all of these organizations as well as numerous solo or collective exhibits. Her paintings are in several permanent collections including the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Lubbock Art Museum, and the Art Museum of South Texas.

In 1968 she was one of three artists invited to participate in the dedication of Padre Island National Seashore by Lady Bird Johnson. The artists each presented the First Lady with watercolors painted at the ceremony.

For most of her career she worked en plein air with Padre Island and the Gulf of Mexico being her favored subject. She also painted at Big Bend and New Mexico. In the 1990s she returned to school at A&M University of Corpus Christi to study with Antonio Garcia. This began her period of large oil and acrylic abstractions which she continued for the rest of her life.

She took what she saw and by reducing the form she transformed nature into paintings that don't declare themselves, they become expressions of intense feelings.