Currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art is "Flower of the Praire", George Grosz in Dallas. Apparently, 60 years ago - in 1952, the young VP of A.Harris & Co. (a Dallas department store) invited the German artist George Grosz to visit Dallas. He came for four days, then returned to his studio in Huntington, NY. He spent the next five months creating a suite of oil paintings & watercolors which were exhibited in October of 1952 at the Texas State Fair. You can see these very works at the DMA thru August 19.

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