Description
Evaline Sellors (1903-1995) Mid Century Patinated aluminum wall sculpture "Letitia" Roman dess of joy, gaiety and happiness - by Fort Worth, Texas,
sculptor Evaline Clark Sellors.
14" tall x 7 1/8" tall with no damage, possible scratch to right of nose.
Evaline Clarke Sellors was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1903. She studied art,
illustration, and modeling before enrolling at the prestigious Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Sellors won the institutions' William Emlen Cresson
scholarship in 1929 and 1930, allowing her to study sculpture in Europe. After
returning to Texas, Sellors co-founded The Texas School of Arts in 1932 with
Sallie Gillespie and Blanche McVeigh. Sellors and McVeigh were also founding
members of the Fort Worth Artists Guild. Sellors taught art at a number of
institutions in the Fort Worth while executing commissions for the Works
Progress Administration (WPA). Examples of her work are in the collections of
the Dallas Museum of Art.
DeWitt McKinley (1905–1997) was first the Co-Founder of the McKinley Iron Works
in Fort Worth, Texas, and then that city's mayor from 1967-1969.
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