Kathryne Hail Travis

Kathryne Hail Travis painted and exhibited extensively throughout the Southwest and Pacific states.  For a number of years she maintained a summer studio in Seattle, Washington, working in the Cascades, the Olympic Mountains, the Puget Sound area as well as Alaska.  Her one-man shows included Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Dallas and Houston brought  her frequent prizes and awards and much acclaim.  Mrs. Travis studied  at the Art Institute of Chicago where she met Olin Herman Travis. She also studied at the Academy of Fine  Arts Chicago, the Ohio Mechanic Institute, the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts and was a student of both George Bellows and Randall Davey.

With her husband, she was co-founder and co-director of the former Dallas Art Institute, later absorbed by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.  For three years, she was co-director of the Travis’s Ozark Summer School of Painting in the Ozark Mountains.  She also taught at the Hockaday School for Girls, and later headed the Fine Arts Department of the Art Center Studios in Dallas.  For over ten years, she directed the Kathryne Hail Travis School of Art in Ruidoso, New Mexico, housed at the landmark Carrizo Lodge.  After her divorce, she lived with her partner and fellow artist, William Goff, in Ruidoso. 

This gallery includes images of as many known paintings by Kathryne Hail Travis as could be gathered.  Many are from the family  collections, while others are gathered from the internet and are in public and private collections. 

The following resources proved particularly relevant to the artist and the primary benchmarks of her life and artistic genre.