Recent Press:
Read about Anne C. Weary and her history at Spring Creek Forest in the article An Artist's Paradise: An artist drew inspiration from her family's forest, then helped protect it by Steve Walker with photographs by Chase Fountain in the June 2023 issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine.
Watch a video of Anne C. Weary drawing plein-air in her woods in a film produced for EarthX2021.
Read an article about Anne Weary in Waxahachie NOW magazine.
Early Education:
Studied art under Ruth Harrison, Olin Travis, Octavio Medellin, and Chapman Kelley
Education:
2007 Texas Teacher Certification, University of Texas at San Antonio
1988 Bachelor of Arts, University of Texas at Dallas
1979 Graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a four year certificate, studied under Lou Sloan, Oliver Grimley and Ben Kamihira
Other Education:
1982 East Texas State University
1974 Philadelphia College of Art
1973 Kansas City Art Institute
Exhibitions:
2019 Bird Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2018 Anne C. Weary: True to Nature, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Masterful Marks: An Exploration of the Medium of Drawing, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 Trees: Drawings by Anne C. Weary, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Anne C. Weary: Where the Pacific Meets the Cliffs at Torrey Pines, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 The Good Earth, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Fresh & Salty (a Valley House Gallery group exhibition), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2010 Art + Advocacy, auction for Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 Shorelines, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois (Valley House Gallery)
2010 Art in the Pines 2010, Torrey Pines State Reserve, Del Mar, California
2010 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2009 Wish! Auction, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, group exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Texas Tour: 100 Years of Texas Landscape Painting, goup exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Works on Paper, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2006 McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Art International, art fair, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Kingdom Animalia: Creatures Big and Small by Artists Old and New, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Works on Paper, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Burning Desires: Acquisitions 1997-2001, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
2002 McNay Art Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2000 Anne Weary: Drawings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 USArtists2000, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
2000 Dallas International Art & Antique Fair, The Dallas International Pavilion at Victory, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1998 USArtists 98, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1997 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1997 Texas Natural Wonders, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996 Works on Paper, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1996 Brian Cobble & Anne Weary: The Refinement of Light and Image, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996 Invitational, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
1995 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1995 Art of the Garden, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
1995 Drawing to a Close, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1994 ARTexas 94, The Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1994 40th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 U.S. Artists, Engineer’s Armory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1993 Anne C. Weary, Purnell Art Gallery, The Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas
1993 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1993 ARTexas 93, The Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Recent Works By, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1992 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Texas Galleries, art fair, Infomart, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1992 U.S. Artists, art fair, Engineer’s Armory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1991 Dallas Proud, Mayor's Conference Room at Dallas City Hall, juried by Patricia Meadows
1991 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1990 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 The Art Show, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 Anne C. Weary: Drawings of My Forest, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1984 11th Annual Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1984 Naturalist artist Anne Weary presents a selection of work at D’Art, D'Art, Dallas, Texas
1983 10th Annual Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1983 Membership Show, D'Art, Dallas, second place award, the exhibition traveled to Wichita Falls
1980 Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, one person exhibition
1980 7th Annual Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
1979 Peale House Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, accepted in juried student exhibitions throughout the year
1969 10th Annual High School Student Exhibition, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
1968 9th Annual High School Student Exhibition, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas; traveled to Texas Hemisphere Art Show, San Antonio, Texas
Literature:
“Anne C. Weary: True to Nature,” Art&Seek, 2018, Available from artandseek.org/calendar/event/88724/anne-c-weary-true-to-nature.
60th Anniversary Catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2014; God’s Dog – Coyote reproduced.
Sandra Strong, “Gift of Detail,” Waxahachie NOW Magazine, Volume II, Issue 6, June 2014, Learn to Fly or Die Tree, My Deer, Pepe’s Place, Spring Creek, and Trail to Top reproduced. Available from http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=211660.
Michael Granberry, “Drawings by Anne C. Weary,” The Dallas Morning News, Arts Guide Section, December 16, 2011, page 57, Torrey Pine and Cottontail reproduced.
Pearl, “Nature Observed: The Coastal California Pines of Anne C. Weary” Urban Art & Antiques, December 16, 2011.
“Openings & Events,” The Dallas Morning News, Arts Guide Section, December 9, 2011, page 54.
Michael Granberry, “Art Notes,” The Dallas Morning News, Arts Guide Section, December 4, 2011, page 4E.
Frederick Turner, “The Eyes of Texas: Texas Art and Texas Light,” American Arts Quarterly, published by The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York), Summer 2010, Volume 27, Number 3, pages 27-33.
50th Anniversary Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, March 5 – 27, 2004, color illustration.
Bonnie Gangelhoff, “The Art of Drawing: Six Artists Demonstrate a Timeless Art Form,” Southwest Art, February 2003, page, 99.
Frederick Turner, “Visionary Realism,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2000, p. 13.
Tyler Museum of Art Review, Tyler Museum of Art, February - August, 1997, page 3.
Jayne Noble, “Preserving Paradise,” The Dallas Morning News, Metropolitan Section, November 5, 1995, pages 37A-38A.
Denise Spellman Getson, “Weary’s Woods,” Dallas Observer, September 14-20, 1995.
Bebe Bolen, "Artist Leaves the Big City to Live and Work in the Forest," Northside People, Dallas, January, 1993.
Anne C. Weary: Drawings of My Forest, exhibition catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 1989.
Steven Mark, "County to Save Rare Forestland," Dallas Times Herald, January 24, 1988.
Pat Gordon, "At Home in the Woods," The Dallas Morning News, Today Section, January 24, 1987, pages 1C-2C.
Dan Barber, "Her Own World," Garland Daily News, December 29, 1986, pages 1-2.
“Nature Group Fights to Save Pristine Forest,” Dallas Times Herald, Metropolitan section, June 20, 1983, page 1D.
Sue Watkins, "Legends Surround House," Garland Daily News, September 30, 1982.
Awards and Honors:
1979 The Charles Toppan Prize for Excellence in Drawing from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1979 The Nicholas Bucciarelli Drawing Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1971 Artists for the Environment, Delaware Water Gap. One semester residence working on landscapes in Pocano Mountain Retreat
1969 First Place and Superior Merit Award at the 10th Annual High School Student Exhibition, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
1968 First Place at the 9th Annual High School Student Exhibition, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Public Collections:
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
