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Rosalie Speed, Old Man River at Vicksburg, c. 1938. Oil on Masonite, 25.25 x 28.50 inches. Tyler Museum of Art, gift of the 2005 Collectors' Circle 2005.07.)
Rosalie Speed, Untitled (Autumn scene), mid 1950s. Oil pastel on paper, 9 x 12 inches. Tyler Museum of Art 2004.09
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Rosalie Speed. Dallas County Courthouse, c. 1947. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 16 7/8 x 14 1/4 inches (sight)
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Rosalie Speed. San Francisco Cable Car, c. 1951. Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 13 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
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Rosalie Speed. Untitled (Trees in autumn), n.d. Pastel on paper, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sight)
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Rosalie Speed. Untitled (Red Gate), n.d. Oil on Masonite, 18 x 20 inches
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Rosalie Speed: Rediscovered Texas Treasure February 24–May 14, 2006 
Rosalie Speed, a well-known Dallas artist during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually disappeared from the public art scene for over 40 years. It was not until 1993 that a work by her appeared in the exhibition Women Artists of Texas: 1850–1950, organized by the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. Another exhibition organized by the same museum in 2002, Neighbors: Texas Artists in New Mexico, also included a work by Speed. A slightly abbreviated version of that exhibition traveled to the TMA in 2003. More recently, Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900–1960, presented at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in 2005, featured a still life by the artist, completing the reintroduction of the art of Rosalie Speed. Growing up in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Speed attended Southern Methodist University and the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton. As with many other artists in Dallas, she attended Miss Aunspaugh's School of Art. Beginning around 1929 Speed exhibited frequently with well-known artists of the day, including Otis Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, William Lester and Florence McClung. She and fellow painter Frances Skinner exhibited at the Sartor Galleries in Dallas in 1935. Rosalie Speed's painting Old and Modern Towers, a work that resonates with early O'Keeffe, was included in the Centennial Exhibition of the State Fair of Texas in 1936. And, quite remarkably for the time, she had two one-woman exhibitions (1941 and 1947) at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. It was after her mother's death in 1950 that Speed virtually stopped painting, spending her time caring for her father until his death in 1983 at the age of 106. Following Rosalie Speed's death in 2004, a cache of her work was discovered in the attic, closets and other out-of-the way places in her home in Dallas, where she had lived nearly her entire life. The majority of these works – most of which have not been seen publicly for over 50 years – will be presented here in the exhibition organized by the Tyler Museum of Art. Featured in the exhibition is a major work by Speed, Old Man River, Vicksburg (c. 1938), recently purchased by the Tyler Museum of Art's 2005 Collectors' Circle (2005.07). Her scenes of everyday life in the South and Southwest, painted in crisp and joyful colors and reminiscent of 'naïve' art, hold a distinct place among other works by major Texas regionalists in the first half of the 20th century. Rosalie Speed: Rediscovered Texas Treasure is organized by the Tyler Museum of Art. |