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Dwight Holmes
"DOUBLE DAM AREA" FT. WORTH TEXAS FORT WORTH TEXAS IN SNOW.

1974

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Dwight Holmes (1900-1986) Fort Worth, San Angelo Artist Image Size: 8 x 10 Frame Size: 12.5 x 14.5 Medium: Oil "Double Dam Area Ft. Worth Texas" Fort Worth Texas One mile upstream from the City Park dam on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River where the two Coughlin siblings drowned in 1898 (see Part 1) was another dam that provided Cowtowners with recreation in the next century. By 1909 the Texas & Pacific railroad had built a low-water dam at its bridge over the Clear Fork just south of today’s West Vickery Boulevard bridge over the river. The railroad impounded the water to supply its steam locomotives just as other railroads impounded Katy and Echo lakes. The city had complained to the railroad, claiming the dam would interfere with the functioning of the city’s own dams on the Clear Fork, built to impound water for the city waterworks. But lawyers determined that the railroad had riparian rights to dam the river on its right-of-way. By at least 1921 the stretch of the river at the T&P dam became a popular swimming hole known as “Double Dam.” (Early in the twentieth century West Vickery Boulevard was called “Stove Foundry Road” and later “Granbury Road.”) The Trinity River of Double Dam days was not the Trinity River of today. It was narrower and shallower (where not dammed), meandering, lined by shady trees. Double Dam would have looked more like Eakins’s The Swimming Hole than today’s Panther Island Pavilion. Double Dam lent its name to a nearby service station and café. Even in 1925 Double Dam was barely in the city limits, surrounded by parkland and farmland. Only Stove Foundry Road and the T&P track crossed the river there. This is the Double Dam area today, the river now crossed by I-30, Chisholm Trail Parkway, and Rosedale Street in addition to Vickery Boulevard and the railroad—all in a swath just eight hundred feet wide. (Not to mention the Forest Park miniature train.) These briefs tell us that the stretch of the river at Double Dam had a privately operated bathhouse, beach, and artesian well. By 1926 the operators were willing to sell their improvements at Double Dam to the city. By 1931 the city indeed had acquired the Double Dam area and incorporated it into the Trinity-Forest Park complex. Double Dam was popular for swimming, fishing, picnicking, even ice skating. Sometimes the merriment became too merry for the scattered neighbors. J. Frank Norris of First Baptist Church baptized people at Double Dam. Dwight Holmes (1900-1986) Dwight C. Holmes, known for ornamental architectural sculpting as well as painting and etching, was born in Albany, Oregon, 1900. He began formal art training in Galveston high school; studied five years in Texas Christian University, serving also as student assistant and art editor for College annual. He received his Certificate of Art and Bachelor of Arts Degree and became a faculty member in the Art Department. He left teaching to serve a five-year apprenticeship to achieve membership in Modelers and Sculptors of America. He studied with George Franz of Germany and Michael Lengyl of Austria. He has done ornamental architectural sculpturing over forty years and enjoys a broad art horizon that includes sculpting, painting, designing, ceramics, carving, gold-leafing, restoration, etc. He paints in any medium and any subject matter, but prefers oils and landscapes. He studied at Texas Christian University with Mary Sue Darter Coleman, Mrs. R. E. Cockerell, Sam P. Ziegler, and others. In California, he studied with George Flowers, at the Pasadena Art Institute, and in workshops with Lee McCarthy, Leonard Boreman, and etching with Bernard Wall. He has held membership in Painters' Club and Fort Worth Art Association; American Federation of Art; River Art Group and Coppini Academy of Fine Arts in San Antonio; Southwest Ceramic Society; San Angelo Art Club and Arts Council, and others. Dwight Holmes began winning art awards at age 13, and has continued receiving numerous honors and awards over the years. He has held art exhibits all over the Southwest, from Florida to California. His works have been shown in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Kansas City, Columbia, Mo. and elsewhere. He has painted along the Gulf, East and West Coasts; throughout Texas; in Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, California, Tennessee, Georgia, in the Great Smokies, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Red Rock Country, Hawaii, etc.
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    1974
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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    Image Size: 8 x 10Price: $1,800
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    Please check my 1stdibs storefront to see other Vintage, Mid Century & Contemporary Texas & American art and Pottery.
  • Gallery Location:
    San Antonio, TX
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU769314019102
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