Biografie von Coreen Mary SPELLMAN (1909-1978)

Birth place: Forney, TX

Death place: Denton, TX

Addresses: Denton, TX.

Profession: Lithographer, painter, designer, illustrator, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Texas State College for Women (B.S.); Columbia Univ. (M.A.); ASL; Univ. Iowa (M.F.A.); Provincetown, MA, summers; K.H. Miller; C. Locke; V. Vytlacil; W. Schumacker; E. O'Hara.

Exhibited: 50 Prints of the Year, 1932; Provincetown Gal., 1933; SSAL, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1944 (prize); Am. Artists Congress, 1936; Texas Centennial, 1936; Nat. Exh. Am. Art, NY, 1937; WFNY, 1939; Phila. Art All., 1939; Am. Artists Congress, 1938; Texas State Fair, 1938, 1939; Kansas City AI, 1936, 1937, 1942; West Texas Art Exh., 1940 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1945 (prize) 1946 (prize); Univ. Iowa, 1942 (prize); Texas Pr. Exh., 1941,1942 (prize), 1943 (prize), 1944, 1945 (prize); WMAA, 1941; SAE, 1943; AFA Traveling Exh., 1944-45; Assn. Am. Artists, 1946; Caller-Times Exh., Corpus Christi, TX, 1944-45; Denver Art Mus., 1944-46, 1953; Printmakers Guild, 1940-55; Texas General Exh., 1940-50 (prize 1943); Texas FAA, 1932, 1933, 1940, 1943 (prize), 1944-45 (prize), 1946-50; DMFA, 1951 (prize).

Member: SSAL; Denton AL; Printmakers Guild; Nat. Women's Teachers Assn.

Work: Fifty Prints of the Year," 1932; Texas State College for Women; CI."

Comments: Focused on industrial and man-made features of contemporary landscape. Illustr.: Dona Perfecta," 1940; "El Mundo Espanol," 1942; "A Wedding in the Chapel"; & others. Designer, brick mural, Texas State College for Women, 1955; pictorial map of campus, 1947. Represented in "Prize Prints of 20th Century"; "12 From Texas," 1951. Teaching: Texas State Teachers College, Denton, TX.

Sources: WW59; WW47, which puts birth at 1905; Steward, Lone Star Regionalism, 122; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 184, 199."