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Lucile Reid Brock coined this motto and has patterned her career after it for over six decades.
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received her BA from the University of New Mexico (where she was an intercollegiate tennis
champion). During the early 1940s, she moved to Taos, where she was privileged to know old
Taos Art Colony masters such as Ernest Blumenschein, Emil Bisttram, and Charles Berninghaus. Since then, she has
pursued artistic excellence in and out of the United States, doing postgraduate work in
art at Amarillo College, West Texas State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the
University of Houston; studying and painting abroad with Dong Kingman (Hong Kong, Japan),
Millard Sheets (Greece, Turkey), Rex Brandt (Mexico), and Millard Zornes (Peoples Republic
of China), and traveling to paint on her own in many other countries. Her other
teachers and mentors include Chapman Kelley, John Pike, Ed Whitney, Ole Shivonen and Robert E. Wood. She has
taught painting privately and in several colleges, was technical consultant to
the Illinois Arts Council, and was the first Art Director of the Oklahoma Science and Art
Foundation (1961-66). A "signature" member of the Texas Watercolor Society with "Purple Sage" status, Brock's work has been in scores of national and regional exhibitions, one-woman shows, and galleries, including the 44th Annual Allied Artists of America exhibition at the National Academy of Design, the 22nd Annual Cooperstown National Exhibition (NY), the National Small Paintings exhibition in Albuquerque (NM), and many others (complete listing on request). She has been in Who's Who in the Arts and Who's Who of American Women, as well as other biographical listings. Brock's work is represented in over 500 museum, gallery, and private collections in at least 26 states and six countries. Collections with four or more paintings include: The Kirkpatrick Foundation, OK The Lucile Lattanner Reid Brock Art Endowment at the University of New Mexico supports deserving art students with donations from patrons and sales of her new book, Taos Then.
Persons interested in learning more may contact the UNM Foundation at (800) 866-3863 (refer to endowment number 60380), or write: UNM Foundation, Inc. Donation checks should be made out to the UNM Foundation, with "Lucile Lattanner Reid Brock Art Endowment" noted on the check.
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Lucile Brock
P.O. Box 7638
Horseshoe Bay, TX 78657
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All Paintings Copyright © 1997, 1999, 2000, by Lucile Reid Brock, T.W.S. All Rights Reserved
