Ralph Ernest White, Jr. (American/Austin, Texas, 1921-2004), "Serenade", 1972, acrylic on board, sight: 25 x 41", frame: 33 x 49"

Ralph White was born in 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the Minneapolis School of Art and the University of Minnesota. In 1942 he received the Van Derlip Fellowship from the Minneapolis School of Art. His art was influenced by his experiences in the Army Air Corps during World War II. During the War, he traveled from his native Minnesota to the Lone Star State, where he met Ward Lockwood. Lockwood was an officer who also happened to chair the still-new Department of Art at the University of Texas. Lockwood was interested in Whites teaching at UT, and after the war, White made his way to Austin and joined the art department faculty. Over the next 36 years, he developed a program in graphic design and communication arts, taught an array of classes, and eventually even chaired the department himself in the early Seventies. In 1982, he retired as professor emeritus but continued to paint and develop an impressive career after more than 40 years of dedicated service. Whites work has been included in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. In 2002, he had a 60-year retrospective exhibition at Gallery 1313 on South Congress, In Austin, Texas. The following year he was named Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist and was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. His works are housed in the permanent collections of many major art institutes including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Witte Museum in San Antonio, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, the Ford Collection of American Art and others.

Provenance: A San Antonio, Texas collection

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