BARBARA MAPLES

(1912 - 1999), b. Temple, Texas

Barbara Maples was an artist and professor of art, born in Temple, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Art’s degree from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas in 1933 and a Master of Fine Art’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in 1939.

She studied with Lawrence Barrett at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Carlotta Corpron at Texas Women’s University in Denton, Texas.

Maples taught both elementary and secondary art in the Dallas Independent School District from 1937-1964 and concurrently taught children’s classes at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1940-1954.

From 1965-1978 she was Professor and Head of the Department of Art Education at Southern Methodist University.

One-person exhibitions include the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; and the Witte Memorial Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Barbara Maples is included in a number of private collections, as well as, the Corpus Christi Art Foundation, the Dallas Museum of Art, El Paso Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum.