'The Glory of the Morning' Oil on canvas, 30' x 40' 1927 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition Awarded National Prize This selection is in the collection of the Luling Foundation, Luling Texas

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'Spring' Oil on canvas, 30' x 40' 1927 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition 'Purchase Award' Spring is a beautiful landscape of the Texas Hill Country depicting a vista of fields and trees, and rolling hills. The presentation of the scene is more atmospheric than the paintings of Jose Arpa, as the air seems to be laden with moisture. Dawson-Watson is a master in his application of paint, and his splashes of color give a spontaneity and depth that is strictly his own. Dawson-Watson's paintings have a slightly blurry quality, which creates a subtle sense of shimmer and movement. -RC

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'Early Morning' Oil on canvas, 30' x 40' 1929 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition Awarded 5th place, Group 3, 'Cotton Fields' Early Morning illustrates the same theme as Arpa's Picking Cotton from a different point of view. While Arpa's painting moves towards the viewer, Dawson-Watson's takes us away from the foreground, which is accented by a worm's eye view, the diagonal recession of the figures and the strong atmospheric perspective. The figures are lost in their own thoughts, and the viewer is not invited to participate.  -RC

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'The Bouquet' Oil on canvas, 30" x 40" 1929 Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition  Awarded 4th place, Group 4, Texas Division - 'Texas Wildflowers   Impressionistic is the only way to describe The Bouquet. In this painting the light shines as Dawson-Watson brings the beauty of the cactus flower into our presence by the immediacy of the image. The misty background of the painting and the slightly blurred image allow the landscape to emerge from the background in a ghost like way.  -RC