Texas Modern Art is a project of Robert Summers. Robert created Texas Modern Art in 2005 to advance interest, appreciation and scholarship in modernist indigenous Texas art. Robert is an arts advocate and collector. A fouth-generation Texan, Robert received an undergraduate degree in economics from Texas A&M University and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Robert is a resident of Austin and a practicing attorney.
Robert has lectured and presented papers on Texas art on numerous occasions throughout the state, including the following: Passionate Collecting, presented at the CASETA Spring Symposium, Austin, Texas 2004; The University of Texas College of Fine Arts Department of Art and Art History: A Modern Institution (with Chelsea Weathers), presented at the CASETA Spring Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, 2005; Foundations of Texas Contemporary Art: Early Abstract and Non-Objective Painting, presented at the David Dike Fine Art Auction, 2005; Texas Modernism, presented at the Heritage Texas Art Auction, 2005; Early Texas Abstractionists: Donald Weismann and Seymour Fogel, presented to the Texas Art Collectors Organization, Dallas, Texas, 2006.
Robert has also published on various topics related to Texas art, including: Public Art: The Modernist Texas Murals of Seymour Fogel, Brilliant magazine, January, 2004; The University of Texas College of Fine Arts Department of Art and Art History: A Modern Institution (with Chelsea Weathers), 2005; Foundations of Texas Contemporary Art: The Prize Competitions, catalog essay for Arthouse Texas's Texas Prize Exhibition, 2005. Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction, (Exhibition and Publication Coordinator), Baylor University, 2007.
Robert is also involved in statewide and local arts groups, including: Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (Chairman, Board of directors, 2007-present, Vice Chairman, 2004-2006); Texas Art Collectors Organization of Central Texas (Chairman, 2005-2007); Arthouse Texas (Formerly Texas Fine Arts Association)(Member, Board of Directors, 2005-2007), and: Austin Museum of Art (Trustee, 2005-present, Co-Chairman, Acquisitions Committee.
Please feel free to contact Robert at info@texasmodernart.com
