Texas Modern is an eye-opening presentation of mid-century abstract art in Texas. This exhibition surveys three critical decades of abstract art created following the more familiar, agrarian, regionalist art that dominated Texas and the American heartland in the early twentieth century. The exhibit will feature over 50 paintings and sculptures from public and private collections. Texas Modern attempts to define the evolution of abstract art in Texas. Abstraction was the most influential development in the twentieth century. Many of the artists were converts to abstraction, having only worked figuratively before. Some artists included are Forrest Bess, Ben Cullwell, Richard Stout, Dick Wray, Dorothy Hood, Everett Spruce, and Amy Freeman Lee.  The educational programs associated with the exhibit were made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The exhibition catalogue was underwritten by the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art.