Berla Emeree (El Paso, Texas, 1899-1948), "Adobe Run", oil on canvas

sight: 18.5 x 23.5 in., frame: 20.5 x 30.5 in.

Landscape painter Berla Iyone Emeree was a student of Jose Arpa, Xavier Gonzalez, and Rolla Taylor. Emeree studied in Philadelphia with Frank B.A. Linton, as well as in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and England during a European trip in 1928-1929. In El Paso, she opened the Emeree School of Art in 1924, and operated the Emeree Scenic Drive School, also in El Paso, in the late 1930s and 1940s. Emeree exhibited her paintings of the West and Western life at the Texas Fine Art Association, Austin; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; International Museum, El Paso; Fort Worth Museum of Art; Southern States Art League; Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition, San Antonio. Her work is in the collections of the Carnegie Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas; and Bowie High School, El Paso.

Provenance: a San Antonio, Texas collection

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