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The Glory of the Morning

Dawson Dawson-Watson was awarded the National Prize for his painting The Glory of the Morning in the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition, 1927.

The Glory of the Morning was originally exhibited in a hand-carved frame by Dawson-Watson. The current location of the frame is unknown.

Medium:
Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Date: 1926
Signed: Dawson-Watson / XXVI (lower right)
Catalogue #: P.1926.1
 
Publication History:
-William E. Reaves, Jr., Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream: Edgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998), 38, 60, pl. 1 ill.
 
Collection:
-In the collection of the Luling Foundation; Luling- Texas
 
Provenance:
-The Artist
-Edgar B. Davis
-The Lotus Club, New York, NY
 
Exhibition History:
-Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, February 1st, to March 1st, 1927.