References

 Online Biographies & Galleries ARTNET.COM♥
Artnet offers a database format through which one may research the   prices of artwork using illustrated auction sales results.  The Olin   Travis entry offers over 70 painting images to subscribers.

ASKART.COM ♥♥♥
AskART™ is a rich resource of information on the world of art, offering   international art-auction records, artist biographies, and much   more. This database allows research of artwork using illustrated auction   sales results.  The Olin Travis entry offers over 75 painting images  to  subscribers.  Limited access for non-subscribers.

ARTFACT.COM ♥♥
ArtFact offers information on artworks, art-auction records, and artist biographies.  Limited access for non-subscribers.

ARTPRICE.COM
Artprice offers subscriber an Olin Travis entry featuring over 20   painting images and biographical information to subscribers only.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARKANSAS HISTORY & CULTURE  ♥♥♥
This well-researched entry on Olin Travis, written by Russ Aikman,   offers a traditional biography with links to related entries. 

THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE ♥♥
Short entry on Olin Travis offers a traditional information on career accomplishments. 

FINE ARTS OF TEXAS, INC. ♥♥
This entry on Olin Travis offers traditional biographical information.  The site seeks paintings by Olin Travis.

VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY  ♥♥
Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas provides a gallery of Olin Travis   paintings offered for sale through the gallery.  The site’s “Links”  page  offers an excellent list of galleries and museums which feature  Texas  art.

Publications The Dallas Morning News Archives. 

Forrester-O’Brien, Esse. Art and Artists of Texas. Dallas: Tardy Publishing Co., 1935.

Powers, John, and Deborah Powers. Texas Artists, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Austin, TX: Woodmont Books, 2000.

Smith, Goldie Capers. The Creative Arts in Texas. Dallas: Cokesbury Press, 1926.

Holdings Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) ♥♥♥
Microfilm of Olin Travis papers created as part of AAA’s Texas project.   Correspondence; writings, including, notes, typescripts of an   autobiographical sketch, “I Found a Nose in Our Alley; Art in Dallas,   1896-1953,” and “Portrait Painting as an Art,” plays, and limericks;   sketches and sketchbooks; exhibition catalogs and clippings; and photos   of Travis and his paintings. Also included are photographs of Josephine   Travis’s teacher Frank Reaugh, and a letter to Josephine Travis from  Reaugh.

Dallas Public Library ♥♥
Second and Seventh Floor holdings include multiple files, clippings, oral history cassette, and video of Olin Travis at Work.

Southern Methodist University/Harmon Arts Library: Olin Travis Collection ♥♥
The Olin Travis Collection includes catalogs, clipping files,   correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials related to the   career of this art instructor who and taught in Dallas and Arkansas   from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Travis Family Archives ♥♥♥♥♥
We love ours the most!  Not only do we maintain a database of Olin  Travis paintings, but the research that we have done includes a harvest  from all of the above, and more, as well as our own family memorabilia  and painting collection.