Object lesson: Face time
Evaline Clarke Sellors’ “Young Girl” resides atop the old-school card catalog on the second floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library
by Kathryn Hopper
Object lesson: Face time
Evaline Clarke Sellors’ “Young Girl” resides atop the old-school card catalog on the second floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library
by Kathryn Hopper
The works of Evaline Clarke Sellors (1904-1995) can be seen all over Fort Worth — from her bas-reliefs at Farrington Field, including a male figure modeled on “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh ’36, to the Cubistic steers that adorn North Side High School.
This work of hers, simply titled “Young Girl” resides atop the old-school card catalog on the second floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library near Special Collections. The sculpture was a gift to the university from Marion Day Mullins ’25 in 1985.
One of Cowtown’s most prominent sculptors, Sellors was a member of the influential Fort Worth Circle, artists who nurtured and inspired the local arts community through much of the 20th Century. She began her art training at age 8 and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, where she and her sister created a stuffed dog named Tut’s Pup, named after the recently discovered tomb of King Tutankhamen. They patented the design and sold it to a manufacturer who renamed it Woof Woof and its sales financed her art training at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
She returned to Fort Worth and became an influential teacher, helping found the Texas School for Fine Arts in 1932 and participated in the New Deal-funded Public Works of Art Project. Her works included sculptures of city leaders as well as children such as this young girl. — KHFace time
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he works of Evaline Clarke Sellors (1904-1995) can be seen all over Fort Worth — from her bas-reliefs at Farrington Field, including a male figure modeled on “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh ’36, to the Cubistic steers that adorn North Side High School.
This work of hers, simply titled “Young Girl” resides atop the old-school card catalog on the second floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library in its Special Collections. The sculpture was a gift to the university from Marion Day Mullins ’25 in 1985.
One of Cowtown’s most prominent sculptors, Sellors was a member of the influential Fort Worth Circle, artists who nurtured and inspired the local arts community through much of the 20th Century. She began her art training at age 8 and went on to Washington University in St. Louis, where she and her sister created a stuffed dog named Tut’s Pup, named after the recently discovered tomb of King Tutankhamen. They patented the design and sold it to a manufacturer who renamed it Woof Woof and its sales financed her art training at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
She returned to Fort Worth and became an influential teacher, helping found the Texas School for Fine Arts in 1932 and participated in the New Deal-funded Public Works of Art Project. Her works included sculptures of city leaders as well as children such as this young girl. — KH
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