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Allie Victoria Tennant is one of a notable group of Texas artists who actively advanced regionalist art in the decades before World War II.
She advanced cultural endeavors, including the arts. A true pathfinder, she helped to create and nurture art institutions that still exist today, most especially the Dallas Museum of Art, on whose board of trustees she sat for almost thirty years. Tennant also worked on behalf of other civic institutions, including the public schools, art academies, and the State Fair of Texas, where she helped create the Women's Building.
Review Quotes: "Light Cummins's superb biography of Allie Victoria Tennant is a history of the artist best known as the sculptor of the majestic Tejas Warrior. But she was much more than simply a practicing artist. She was an organizer, leader, and insider in organizations and institutions related to art and culture in Dallas. Faced with an almost complete absence of her personal papers or writings, Cummins exemplifies the best example of a historian as detective."
--Mary L. Scheer, author of Women and the Texas Revolution-- (05/26/2015)