History of Art at El Paso (Bib Intro)

Table of Contents by Subject
Compiled by Nicholas P. Houser, MA, MPH, BS.
Project Historian, XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest, Inc.
Revised, June 21, 2006

Subjects: Art, Sculpture, Painting, Lithography, Architecture, El Paso Missions/Religious Art & Architecture, Historic Preservation, Cultural Societies, Cameos, Cartography/Maps, Photography, Cartoons, Exhibitions, Expositions & Fairs, Museums, Film, Fountains & Plazas, Historical Markers & Landmarks, Promotion, Parks, Highways, Novelties etc.

Preface: This bibliography was prepared to assist planning and development for the XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest. An initial objectives objective was to document the history of the Pioneer Plaza site for the first monument in the XII Travelers series, Fray García de San Francisco, Founder of the Pass of the North, 1659. The scope was later broadened to include regional art, public art and related subjects. The research focus is from the Spanish period through the American era up to 1940 (included are some prehistoric/archaeological citations).

The following subjects are major subjects, which are cited in this bibliography. The accompanying dates (in parenthesis) represent the date of the event or when the reference was published. The bibliography, though extensive, is not a comprehensive listing.

The 1936 Texas Centennial had a lasting influence on the El Paso area, which encouraged study of its rich history, cultural diversity and supported artistic expression to celebrate that legacy.

Architecture

Pierson Hotel, woodcut illustration (1883).
Old Central Building Destroyed by Fire (reputed to have been the Ponce de Leon adobe) (1894; later articles: 1923 dispute location; Ponce adobe 1937).
Center Block purchased near Little Plaza (1899).
Plaza Hotel Bldg remodeling (1901; advertisement of same 1902).
Toltec Bldg dedication (1906); Toltec Club new building (1908, 1909; formal opening 1910; new club house 1923).
Mills Building (monument to Mills who built it) (1910).
Henry Gillette grocery and liquor on corner of Pioneer Plaza is the present site of the City National Bank. (1914).
Joseph Magoffin Home considered for a Museum (1923).
Ernest Krause, Pioneer Architect dies - designed Hotel Dieu, the Ellianay Theatre, the A.B. Fall home on Arizona and designed and built his own home of seven gables at 906 N. Stanton. One of the oldest houses in the city.” – “He built the house in 1883. In the same year, he built the dam in the river at Hart’s Mill that is still giving services (1932).
Hilton Hotel at Pioneer Plaza (1930)
Simeon Hart Home (1934).
A.B. Fall Home (1934).
James P. Hague Home (1935).
Quito Berg in Ysleta (1935, Research note: this is not an old hacienda as commonly believed).
James W. Magoffin Home, the original destroyed by flood (1936).

El Paso Area Missions

Repairs on Senecú Church (1805)
Ysleta Mission Tower (1896).
Guadalupe Mission, good drawing (1897).
Ysleta Mission Dome (1897).
Socorro San Miguel Image (1898; 1984).
Ysleta Mission Burns (1907).
Ysleta Documents (1909).
Ysleta Mission Baptismal Lamp (1914)
Socorro Church replica for Texas Centennial Exposition (1934, 1936).
Ysleta Mission Doors (1909, 1923, 1930, 1931, 1940).
Senecú and Ysleta Missions – paintings religious art (1902)
Father Cordova of Ysleta rebuilds the Mission (1910)
Ysleta Saint Anthony Statue (1941).
Ysleta Mission Christ in bier (1952).
Guadalupe Mission religious art (1982).
La Misión de Guadalupe (2004).
Centennial Museum Plans (1937).
Centennial Museum approved for School of Mines, $50,000 structure (1936).
New Mexico Missions (1941, 1956)
Miguel Angel Berumen & Guadalupe Santiago (2002)
Thomas A. Drain (A Sense of Mission 1994)
Ken Flynn (1997)
H.W. Kelly (1941)
George Kubler (1974)

Artists

(painters, sculptors & authors; also: monuments/memorials and sculpture)

Joseph de Urrutia’s Map of El Paso del Norte, 1766 (1965)
Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco in 1776 artist and sculptor in the El Paso area (Cisneros & West (1984), 1758 illustrated Map of New Mexico (Museum of New Mexico; N.P. Houser San Elizario Exhibit)
José Aceves painting of Don Antonio Otermín entitled “The Journey of Death” displayed by the Popular Dry Goods Co. (1936; see Price 1983)
Ruth Augur (1983)
Ralph Baker (1983)
John Russell Bartlett, “Guadalupe Mountains Texas” (1850; John Carter Brown Library; N.P. Houser Salt War Exhibit), “The Ruins of the Church of San Elizario on the Rio Grande, Oct. 8, 1852 by J.R. Bartlett (John Carter Brown Library; N.P. Houser San Elizario Exhibit), (Granite Masses, Waco, 1851, Mts. John Brown Library). Emory’s Report, 1857 (John Carter Brown Library, John Russell Bartlett Collection;
N.P. Houser Mission Exhibit).
A.F. Bandelier, paintings in Vatican Library of Piro Pottery, ca. 1895 (N.P. Houser research file).
Oscar Berninghaus (1983)
Ruth Blake (1983)
Elmer Boone (1983)
Gutzon Borglum (see sculptors), Gutzon Borglum, plans for international bridge, Franklin Mts. and Hueco Tanks (1935, 1936); Gutzon Borlgum: Park Levy for purchase of Hueco Tanks and creation of Borglum’s monument fails (1935; Research the levy did not include the freeze which Borglum was to create on the granite face; plan for bas-relief continued in 1936 when Borglum spoke on monumental art at Masonic Temple).
Capt. John Bourke, US Army drawing of Church of Ysleta, Nov. 11, 1881 (N.P. Houser 2000:3).
H.P. Bright, El Paso artist, fined in Juarez for sketching street scenes - painting of Guadalupe mission, deemed derogatory (1936).
Robert Burk (1983)
Emilio García Cahero - First Public Works of Art Project Fresco Completed at College of Mines – Mexican Artist & El Paso resident Cahero and crew (1934).
Gerald Cassidy (1983)
E. Irving Couse (1983)
John Curd (1983)
Lois Denton (1983)
Ellen Dunlap (1983)
Seth Eastman (1987)
Fremont Ellis (1983)
Leola Freeman (1983)
Betty Fryer (1983)
Jose Gándara (1983)
Robert Genung
Pedro Carrillo Gonzáles (1983)
Xavier Gonzáles (1983)
Guadalupe Mission illustration - Drawing of Lithograph of Guadalupe Mission, good quality by G.S. Eng. Co. (1882).
Guadalupe Mission - Unknown artist, good drawing of Guadalupe Mission (1897)
Francisco Gutiérrez (1983)
Frances R. Fisk (A History of Texas Artists and Sculptors, 1986)
Charles F. Hall, artist from New York listed in 1860 El Paso census (1936).
Dawn Hall (1996)
Kathleen G. Hejerter (2003)
Tamakichi Hibino (1983)
Eduard Joseph Holslag (1922, 1937), Eduard Joseph Holslag Exhibition - El Paso area paintings (made ca. 1919; 1922 bank pamphlet about murals) by Holslag, mural painter, which belong to First National Bank to be displayed in Chicago (1936).
Major Jack Howland, Portrait Painter and Landscape Artist, went by boat from Santo Domingo to Mesilla (1876). Itinerant artist of cameo portrait (1877).
William P. Huff (1849-50)
Edwin Jones (1983)
Hari Kidd (1936, 1983)
Forest Kirkland (1940), Kirkland Hueco Tanks Pictographs (1939 Texas Memorial Museum, UT. Austin)
Kirkland F. & W.W. Newcomb (1967)
Don LaMarr, WPA sculptor “Statue of Fish Girl model was nine-year old Dorothy Sadler, nine of El Paso, to be erected as a fountain piece in the Hill Top Garden of the El Paso Garden Club in Memorial Park, (1936).
Hargaret H. Langford (1969)
Tom Lea (1947, 1965, 2003, 1982, 1995)
Tom Lea, Jr., El Paso Artist creates large full-page illustration for Centennial Edition of El Paso Herald Post (1936).
Harry Maginnis (1983)
Adair Margo (1982, 1995)
Capt. Richard McCardle (1983)
Robert & Evelyn McKee (El Paso Museum of Art)
Keith Martin, eastern painter’s portrait of Tigua Chief, Damascio [Damasio] Colmenero displayed at Paso del Norte Hotel (1936).
Myra McLarey (Benjamin Franklin Coons, portrait, 1989)
Elliot Means (1983)
Leon Trousset (1998, see Sam J. Moore Jr.)
Edward Percy Moran (1904, 1941, 1945, 1963)
Percy Montgomery (1983)
Dean Audely Nicols (1983)
Mary Nicols (1983)
Xavier Pavia (1983)
Gerald Perry (1983)
A.B. Peticolas (1984) A.B. Peticolas, Retreating Confederate with Victoria’s Invincibles, made sketches Ysleta Mission, Guadalupe Mission, etc. (1984; N.P. Houser 2000:1).
William M. Pierson (1871-74; 1877-1878), William Pierson (US Consul El Paso del Norte, illustrations of El Paso del Norte, 1872-1873; N.P. Houser Ysleta Exhibit).
Carol Ann Price (1983)
Henry Cheever Pratt (portraits of Benjamin Franklin Coons, 1851, and James Wiley Magoffin (1852; 1996)
Vic Quintana (1983)
Scott, Cyril Kay (1983)
Winifred Scutt (1983)
Edmund Senn (1983)
Harris G. Shelton (1983)
Henry Joseph Sharp (1983)
J Charles Schuchard [Schuchard] illustrator for A.B. Gray (1854),
Traveling artist (1855).
D. Horst Schreck (Dent 2006, Price 1938)
Irving Schwartz (El Paso Herald, 1935, El Paso Times 1936; El Paso Public Library, Special Collections (1935); Price 1983; US Lib of Congress 1936)
Augustus de Vaudricourt, artist for the International Boundary Commission, published in
T.L. Trousset, paintings of Cd. Juárez and Las Cruces (1908). Jesse Walter Fewkes sketches in diary in El Paso area (1885, 1901).
Urbici Soler, Cristo Rey Statue, scaffolding removed and plans to plaques (1940; 1995 Daniggelis, Paul D).
Mrs. Hazel Wilson, El Paso artist commission from Public Work Art Project painting "Los Muleros" (1934).
Shelton, Harris H. Ysleta Mission Built in 1682 (Halftone reproduction of a painting of the old Ysleta Mission) (1941).
D. Storms (1983)
Grace Strong (1983)
Eugene Thurston (1983)
Wanda de Turczynowics (Dugan, Richard A.)
Walter Ufer (Price 1983)
Harry Wagoner (1983)
Ewing C. Waterhouse (1983)
Hazel Wilson (1934, 1983)
Vera Wise (1983)
Morgan Wolfe (1991)
Forrest Wood (1983)

Cartoons

(Newspaper caricatures)

Political cartoon (ink profile) of Solomon Schutz, Ex Mayor, El Paso Daily Herald, Dec. 16, 1883:4.
Humorous cartoon “Harvest Onions” (depicts W.B. Blanchard & Dr. George Wahl of Ysleta) El Paso Herald Post, 1883 (N.P. Houser San Elizario Exhibit).
Political cartoon (ink sketch) Juan S. Hart (1898).
Political cartoon (ink sketch) Joseph Magoffin (1988).
Political cartoon (ink sketch) Judge Magoffin, etc. (1898)
Political cartoon (ink sketch) Ike Alderete (1898)

Expositions & Fairs

Dallas Fair (Tigua representation 1890); Dallas Fair, Tigua representation (1899); 1936 Texas Centennial (1935, 1936).
Replica of the El Paso Smelter at Dallas Centennial Exposition (1936).
Liberty Building begins - Pioneer Plaza construction of the Liberty Statue and office structure that is to be built in the center of the Plaza (1918).
Pioneer Room (1923)

Film/El Paso Promotion

El Paso area (1915)

Fountains & Plazas

Plaza Fountain (iron) with figures and splashing water to be installed at City Hall (1901). Fountain at Pioneer Place [Little Plaza, Pioneer Plaza] near Sheldon Hotel planned (1909).
Fireman’s Public Drinking Fountain - sixteen feet high and three feet seven inches square at base and of very massive proportions, to cost $1,226 to be made by public subscription (1892).

Historical Markers (see Landmarks)

Senecú Mission (1936).
Allocation for Area Historical Markers (1936).
Pass of the North Maker unveiled near cement plant (1936).
Six Markers received (1936) - San Elizario, Socorro, Ft. Bliss, El Camino Real, Butterfield stage station, and the Pass to the North." -- [Pass to the North Marker] The marker bears the inscription: "On May 4, 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, adelantado and captain general, Governor of New Mexico, first named El Paso del Rio del Norte (1936; see Calleros 1951:16).
San Lorenzo Marker (1952).
Butterfield Stage Marker (1954).
El Paso Diocesan Committee request approved to erect two historical monuments, one in San Jacinto Plaza, the other on the sidewalk at Oregon and Overland Streets - The marker in the Plaza will mark El Camino Real (King's Highway) which originated in Mexico City and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "The other marker will designate the spot where the old Butterfield stage coach loaded and discharged its passengers in El Paso (1936).

Landmarks/Parks/Historic Preservation
(see Historical Markers and Missions)

Clock Tower, Cd. Juarez (1889)
Hueco Tanks for a Memorial Park (1909, 1929, 1930).
Pioneer Plaza cleaned by firemen (1923).
El Paso to be placed on National Landmark for historic preservation (1941).
Historic Preservation (1978, 1992).
Mission Trail - Historic Preservation (1981, 1986, 1996, 1997).
Historic Preservation – El Paso and the Southwest (1912).
Mills Historical Corner (1919).

Monuments/Memorials

Pioneer Association with Mayor Davis & Judge Magoffin plan to erect monument at own expense in the Little Plaza (Pioneer Plaza) (1905).
A Building with curios instead of a monument for Little Plaza (1903). Planing for Monument in memory of Mayor Robinson and fireman, F.T. War, who lost their lives Calisher fire (1910).
El Pioneers in bronze and stone – 1915 - Mayor Tom Lea’s plans city hall plaza or the Pioneer Plaza (recounted in 1935 newspaper article).
Harvie Memorial, Percival Henderson plans monument to late friend, Harvie (Cavalryman) (1916; Henderson death 1918; 1938; dedicated 1940).
Granite World War I Monument planned - 40 feet high to be erected to the Masons of El Paso who lost their lives in the war (1920).
A Monument to nine heroes to be erected in Liberty Square [aka Pioneer Plaza; Pioneer Place, Little Plaza] by General Anson Mills 1920; to unveil memorial shaft to his brother killed by Indians 1920).
W.W. I. Stone Monument in City Hall Square with names of 60 El Paso County heroes dedicated (1921. 1966 defaced by vandals). Zero Monument of Lee Highway to be duplicated in El Paso (1923).
Larrazolo, Octaviano Ambrosio. "Why not erect a statue of San Elizario's educator (1963).
Conquistador Monument proposed by El Paso Chamber of Commerce - 100-foot tall metal statue $300,000 to commemorate the city’s four centuries anniversary (1980).
J.J. Shores (n.d., re: Cristo Rey sculpture)
José Ruíz de Rivera will create Cavalryman Statue from Pennsylvania black granite (1938, statue dedicated March 30, 1940; Irving Schwartz and Tom Lea, Jr. brought the New York sculptor to El Paso and Borglum in 1937 designed the triangular location for the statue before the commission was let to Rivera).

Sculpture

Petrified Giant (Cardiff representation in plaster aka known as General Stoneman) It is certainly the biggest thing we ever saw in human shape, with or without life (1884); General Stoneman (The Original Cardiff Giant (1899; 1901, rediscovered unearthed back of Red Light Saloon 1915; Story of the Petrified Giant 1977).
Elk Statue, 9 ½ feet high, 1,000 lbs; installed at Evergreen Cemetery (1900).
Benito Juárez Monument for Cd. Juárez (1908, 1909).
Ben Dowell had Gaspar Girón of San Elizario make and cast the chuch bell for St. Clements (Ben Dowell collection).
José Ruíz de Rivera (1950 & El Paso Times & Herald 1940’s), U.S. Horse Soldier Unveiled at Scottish Rite Cathedral Triangle Park" (title). El Paso Herald Post, March 29, 1940:14:6., See Sculptors)
Boy with the Boot (see N.P. Houser research files)

Parks (See Hueco Tanks)

Chisos Park (1936)
Fort Davis Park proposed (1936).

Photographers & Prominent Photographs

Death of Mr. Sigmund Seligman, Died at Fort Craig. Came to New Mexico in 1851 or 1852 (1876).
El Paso County Commissioners’ Meeting, photographer unknown (1881).
Blanchard and Orn (1877).
1897 Souvenir Edition of El Paso (with illustrations) (1897) note includes Bird’s Eye View in 1885.
Dr. Felix Miller, (Ysleta Mission Photo taken ca. 1880, N.P. Houser 2000:4).
George B. Richardson, “Salt Harvest at the Flats”, 1904 (N.P. Houser Salt War Exhibit)
Bridgers (1888); Photographic History of City compiled by L.D. Hicks (1909); H.G. Bushong Studio (1885); Bushong [Boshong] (1890; 1919, 1923); Fred L. Feldman, Photographer (1919).
Mary A. Sarber and Charles H. Binon, Photographs from the Border (1977)
Otis A. Aultman, photographer, El Paso resident from 1909 until his death in 1943 (also collected area photos by contemporary and previous photographers (1977).
Reference to possible 1860 El Paso daguerreotype (1963)
Aerial Photography Ysleta (1919).
Daguerreotype images ca. 1870 (1937).
Padre Juan (probably Rev. Fr. Juan N. Cordova, Ysleta Mission priest, photo of Ramona Paíz, ca. 1917 (N.P. Houser 2000:18; for reference to Father Juan see: Calleros 1954: Mother Mission).
John R. Dalby Family Album (ca. 1900s?) (Source: Calleros: 1953: Tigua Indian pamphlet).
R. Philip Barrow’s Sculptural Relief of Stephen F. Austin for Austin School in Memory of Henry Ansley, Gift of Dorrance D. Rodericks (1932).
Alfonso Casasola (Calleros: 1952: Mother Mission)
A.J. Sioqeris (photo of Damasico Colmenero and Santiago Valdez, 1941; see N.P. Houser 2000:16).
Joe Parrish 1950s (Calleros 1953:Tigua Indian Pamphlet).
Leslie Reed (Calleros 1953: Tigua Indian Pamphlet).
Park Pittman Photography Collection of El Paso (1919).
Charles Moorehead Photography Collection of El Paso (1919).
Time-Blumenthal Collection (1956).