1930 Born Houston, Texas St. Joseph’s Hospital
1947 Ceramic Bowl accepted in the Texas General
1948 Graduated Lamar High School, Houston, Texas
Houston Artists Exhibit 1948 to 1960
1952 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Houston
Instructor Museum of Fine Arts, Houston School (Now the Glassel School)
1952 to 1965
“16 Texas Painters” Valley House Gallery, Dallas Texas
1953 Master of Letters, University of Houston
Registrar, Business Manager, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas
1954 U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia
Archives of American Art, Personal Papers 1954 to 1970
“Red Tights” Allied Art Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Clump of Trees, Hermann Park” Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Art Rental Exhibit
1955 One-Man Exhibit, Herbert Institute, Augusta Georgia
793 MP Battalion, Nurnberg, Germany
Studio space at University of Georgia, Furth, Germany
1956 Married Leila McConnell August 18, 1956
Art Teacher, Houston Public Schools
Chaired Exhibit “Contemporary German Graphics” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Exhibit, Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas
“Landscape-Stuttgart” Flaxman Purchase prize, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1957 “Three Tiered Formation”, American Federation of Arts Survey of Texas Painting
“Illogical Organism” Bute Gallery
1958 “Budding Stump”, Feldman Collection
Exhibit, Little Studio, New York, New York
“Espaliered Burlap” Autumn Show, Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
One-Man Exhibit, Rudi’s Club, Houston, Texas
Texas Fine Art Association Exhibit, Austin, Texas
TFAA Circulating Exhibit 1958-1959, San Marcos, Seguin, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, Brownsville, and Kingsville
“Night Crossing”, Four-man Exhibit Petroleum Club, Houston, Texas
“Gold Flow” Texas ’58 Circulating Exhibit
“White Out” Honorable Mention, Houston Artists Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Spring”, Terrace Show, Handmakers, Houston, Texas
“Winter”, “Start With Art” Exhibit, Junior League, Houston, Texas
1959 One-man Exhibit, Driscoll Gallery, Austin, Texas
One-man Exhibit, Houston Geophysical Club, Houston, Texas
Faculty-Student Exhibit, Museum of fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Dallas Art Rental, Dallas, Texas
“Winter”, Western Artists Exhibit, Denver, Colorado
“Portrait of a Dress” Junior League, Houston, Texas
1960 “Field Patterns, Europe” One-man exhibit James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas
1961 Instructor Hill Country Arts Foundation 1961 to 197?
“ Katy Road”, Texas Annual Exhibit, San Antonio Art league Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1962 “Field Pattern, Wurzburg” Western Arts Exhibit, Denver Colorado
One-man Exhibit, St. Luke’s Church, Houston, Texas
“Mystic Road, Germany” Azalea Trail Exhibit, River Oaks Garden Forum, Houston, Texas
Art Teacher, Robert E. Lee High School, Houston
1963 One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Landscape at Nysa”, Longview Invitational, Longview, Texas
1964 Chaired Exhibit “Recent Acquisitions in Houston Collections” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
“Plants on the Terrace”, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas
Dallas Art Rental
“Castleaquarto”, Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
“Doges Palace” Shook Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Corpus Christi Art Rental, Corpus Christi, Texas
“Aspen Mountain”, Junior Service League, Longview, Texas
“Sunset”, Museum Faculty Show, Music Hall, Houston, Texas
1965 David Gregory Gadbois, born July 30, 1965
One-man Exhibit, Houston Baptist College, Houston
Dallas Art Rental
“Two Lemons”, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
“Sunset”, Longview Invitational, Popular Prize, Longview, Texas
“Painters and Partners”, Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas
“The Point”, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
One-man Exhibit, James Bute Gallery, Houston, Txas
1966 Opening Exhibition, Dubose Galleries, Houston, Texas
Art Rental, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
“Port at Night”, Educational TV, New Orleans
1967 Laura Margaret Gadbois, born January 6, 1967
“The Big Landscape” One-Man exhibit Dubose Gallery
“Splash of Yellow”, University of Houston Activities Center, Houston, Texas
“Sun Flowers”, The Houston Club, Houston, Texas
1969 “Night Frost”, Donated to The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
“Champions #4”, Champions Golf Club
“Looking Back”, Southwestern Savings and Loan
“The Ash Tree”, Texas Commerce Bank
1970 “A Pleasant Place”, Texas Heart Institute
1971 “Sunset in Peach and Blue”, Petroleum Club of Houston
1974 “Prelude”, Beaumont Country Club
“The Lake of the Nymphs”, Bank of Mississippi
“Livingston Trail”, Hycel, Inc.
1976 “Water Patterns”, Corpus Christi Cotillion Club
“Morning Coffee”, Terrace Community Hospital
1981 “A Christmas Heritage”, River Oaks Bank and Trust
1984 One Man Exhibit, Imagination Gallery, Kerrville, Texas
1988 Started making faux food for display at Bayou Bend Yuletide
1990 Retired from Teaching after 34 year
Docent, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
1995 Started Company, Faux Foods, Earthenware Foods in the 18th and 19th Century manner. Suitable for Museum display.
1998 Early American Life Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen
1999 Early American Homes Magazine Top 200 American Craftsmen
Pineapple Ornament for The White House Christmas Tree
2004 “17-15, Seventeen Houston Artists 1950-1965” Brazos Project, Houston
