Background
Hood, Dorothy was born on August 22, 1919 in Bryan, Texas, United States. Daughter of Frank and Earl and Georgianna B. (Simpkins) H. Bachelor, Rhode Island School Design, 1940.
Hood, Dorothy was born on August 22, 1919 in Bryan, Texas, United States. Daughter of Frank and Earl and Georgianna B. (Simpkins) H. Bachelor, Rhode Island School Design, 1940.
Student, Art Students League New York, 1940. Bachelor, Rhode Island School Design, 1940. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Rhode Island School Design, 1990.
Teacher, Houston Museum School Museum Fine Art, 1961-1979, part-time, 1979. Artist-in-residence across United States, 1974. One-man exhibits: McNay The Art Institute of Chicago, San Antonio, 1978, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1961, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 1965, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1970, Rice University, Houston, 1971, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, 1972, 74, 76, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, 1961, 74, New York State University, Art Museum South Texas, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City, 1974, International Kunstmesse, Basel, Switzerland, 1974, MichenerGalleries, University Texas, Austin, 1975, Meredith Long Contemporaries, New York City, 1978, 80, 82.
Group shows include: American Academy Arts and Letters, New York City, 1975, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany, McNay The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, Meredith Long Contemporaries, New York City, Everson Museum, 1976, Vice Presdl.Mansion, Washington, 1978-1979, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, 1979, "The Comet Show" Light Gallery, New York, 1985, "American Women in Art: Works on Paper" United Nations Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya, 1985, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, 1985, Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington, 1986-1988, Images onStone: Two Centuries of Artists Lithographs U. Houston Blaffer Gallery, 1987.
Setting for ballet Allen"s Landing, Bicentennial Celebration Houston Ballet, 1975, settings for Toronto Truck Theater"s Gold forthe Golds celebration, Royal Ontario Museum, 1976. Retrospective U. Houston, 1979, Stavanger and Oslo (Norway) Museum, 1982.
New Work from a NewCity, 1983-1984. Represented in permanent collections: Museum Modern Art, New York City, Philadelphia Museum Art, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, Santa Barbara (California) Museum Art, Whitney Museum American Art, New York City, Worcester (Massachusetts)Art Museum, LaJolla (California) Museum, Salzburg Kuntsverein, Galerie an der Stadmauer, Villach, Austria, Palazzio Lichenstein, Vienna, State Galerie, Lintz, Austria, American House, Berlin, Frankfurt Museum other institutional collections in Switzerland, Mexico City, United States, Texas Women Artists, National Museum Women in Arts, Washington and Austin, Texas, Gloria Museum "89, American Women Artists in 20th Century, Knoxville, Museum Art, Queensboro College Art G., Bayside, New York, 1990.