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P aperCity loves a good mystery, especially in the upper echelons of the art world. In those tony, hotly hyped realms, surprise is rare. That's why we — along with Houston's Reeves Art + Design — concocted a competition where you, our readers, have to guess the identity of a top-secret artist. The cheeky Western painting shown here is your sole visual hint. Its artist is a mysterious character known as Frisco Pete, a nom de plume to keep art collectors guessing and preserve a price point that makes Frisco's work accessible … at the moment. Here are three clues. Your reward for answering correctly is a signed original drawing by Frisco Pete. 1. The artist is known to cavort with Allison and Harvey. 2 . I n t e r n a t i o n a l l y exhibited, with high- flyin' Miami collectors and a Texas museum show to add street cred. 3. A prolific writer as well, Frisco Pete's alter ego has an impressive literary compendium that includes an ode to an animal in a humble washeteria. Contest rules: Email guesses as to Frisco P e t e 's r e a l - w o r l d identity to: friscopete@ papercitymag.com. One entry per person, must be received by Wednesday, September 10, 11:59 pm. Every correct response receives a Frisco Pete drawing. Winners announced via email Monday, September 15; must sign a nondisclosure form to receive prize. reevesartgallery.com. Catherine D. Anspon Have You Seen Frisco Pete? Alive Wanted— Frisco Pete's Dairy, 2025, at Reeves Art + Design Rufino, Georgia, Jackson + Friends C onnoisseurs of American art know that the storied collection of Walmart heir Alice Walton forms Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Now the kingpin of another retail dynasty — one with a Texas focus — pulls back the curtain of his own obsession with American art: H-E-B heir/chairman Charles Butt, an intensely private collector who's the grandson of founder Florence Butt. "American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection" makes its much- anticipated debut this month at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Showcased will be more than 80 paintings and drawings spanning a transformative 100 years, from Winslow Homer's 1885 watercolor of a native woman, Along the Road, Bahamas, to Andrew Wyeth's panel Sea Legs, 1984, depicting a solitary man on a rocking chair as a northeaster blows in. Other stars of Butt's assiduous eye are Georgia O'Keeffe, whose My Backyard, 1945, is an ode to the West's luminous landscape, and Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, whose prominent role within the American Modernism movement finds him represented here by the 1925 canvas The Family, a canonical work presented in Tamayo's first U.S. solo and promised by Butt to the museum. The exhibition not only highlights marquee talents of Modernism (Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Oscar Bluemner) but also excels at the underknown (Alma Thomas, Alice Trumbull Mason, Blanche Lazzell) and the unexpected (Jackson Pollock's Depression-era Camp with Oil Rig). Also featured are extraordinary '70s works by the great Romare Bearden and Joan Mitchell. September 7, 2025 — January 25, 2026, cartermuseum.org. Catherine D. Anspon Charles Sheeler's On a Shaker Theme, 1956, at Amon Carter Museum of American Art COLLECTION OF CHARLES BUTT Help us solve the mystery of the top- secret artist behind the Frisco Pete moniker — there's a signed Frisco Pete drawing in it for you! 58