Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony
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- ISBN 9781623499488
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 238 x 261mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The story begins with well-known portrait photographer Louis de Planque, who lived in Rockport in the late nineteenth century, and includes Annie Fulton Holden, who painted a portrait of the first governor of Texas that hung in the state Capitol until fire destroyed it in 1881. In the many decades since, a host of artists, art educators, and art historians have called the Rockport-Fulton area home, including contemporary and influential artists, instructors, and gallerists such as Herb Booth, Meredith Long, and Simon Michael, teacher of Dalhart Windberg.
In The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave, Kay Kronke Betz and Vickie Moon Merchant chronicle how this small Texas town, whose economy was based on fishing, shrimping, and tourism, became a major regional center for the visual arts. Generously illustrated throughout with full-color images of boats, bays, birds, and other hallmarks of this artistically rich community, this book is a visual and narrative treat for art lovers, conservationists, and historians alike.
Vickie Moon Merchant served as adjunct professor of education at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. A former public school teacher and longtime board member and volunteer for the Friends of the History Center for Aransas County, she resides in Fulton, Texas.
