'Shadows' Oil on canvas, 16" x 20" 1928 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition Awarded Honorable Mention   Mewhinney's painting Shadows repeats some of the compositional elements seen in Keller'sRanch Life, Western Texas, with strong verticals depicted in the trees dissected by the horizontal bands of landscape. Unlike Keller, Mewhinney has not abstructed the painted plane, although the technique is strongly impressionistic. She has also chosen to contrast the impressionistic brushwork of the wildflowers with the strong lines of the sinuous and somewhat un-natural curves of the trees. -RC

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'Texas Wild Flowers' Oil on canvas, 30" x 26" 1928 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition Awarded Third Prize, Group 4: Texas Wildflowers (Texas Division) Texas Wild Flowers is the only still life painting in the collection. The artist chose to show the flowers arranged in a vase sitting on a window ledge backed by a white curtain with shadows of a window frame. The flowers are depicted in a painterly manner, which is juxtaposed with the careful arrangement of the painted elements. -RC