Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-355) and index.
The Modernist Impulse and Texas Art -- The 1930s and the Texas Centennial -- Houston and the Foundations of Early Texas Modernism -- Early Practitioners of Abstraction and Nonobjectivity -- The Fort Worth Circle -- The University of Texas at Austin in the 1940s and 1950s -- The 1950s and Houston -- Sculpture in and around the Studio of Charles Williams -- Are Texans American? MoMA's Americans Exhibitions -- Postscript: What Happened to Earnest Modernism? -- Appendix: Selected Artists' Biographies / by Sarah Beth Wilson