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13 D A L L A S N I N E , D a l l a s (1930s-1940s): This band of Texas Regionalist painters, printmakers, and sculptors, which was active in Dallas in the 1930s and early 1940s, included Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass, and Perry Nichols. With a focus on the land and people of Texas, they bucked the era's emphasis on European trends and eschewed abstraction. Beginning in 1933, the federal Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) provided patronage — notably funds for murals. The Works Projects Administration (WPA) continued support into the 1940s. The Centennial Exposition of 1936 at Fair Park in Dallas brought the Dallas Nine into the national spotlight. By Cynthia Toles. Additional reporting Catherine D. Anspon. O ur fourth annual portfolio celebrates a baker's dozen of Texas Design Icons — people, places, objects, and art that have the power to engage and inspire. From Marfa's 19th-century cattle-baron ranch reborn as Cibolo Creek Ranch to game changer Southwest Airlines' cheeky hostess uniforms, this sweeping survey took weeks to compile as we pored through hundreds of possibilities, helped along the way by colleagues in the art, architecture, and design worlds. A RTHUR P. WATSON HOUSE, AKA THE CHATEAU, Austin (1853): Overlooking Waller Creek on the University of Texas at Austin campus, this remarkable early Texas survivor was built by Mrs. Margaret Neville Bowie, sister- in-law of James Bowie, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. One of the oldest remaining buildings in Austin, this property holds many histories: architectural, Texas, Austin, UT, African American, and female, as well as 50 years of LGBTQ+ stories. Arthur Pope Cibolo Creek Ranch, Marfa Jerry Bywaters' Oil Field Girls, 1940. FROM THE BOOK BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION (BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) 104