biography of Emilio CABALLERO (1917-2010)

Birth place: Newark, NJ

Addresses: Amarillo, TX

Profession: Educator, painter

Studied: Amarillo Col., AA, 1940; W. Tex. State Univ., BA, 1942; Columbia Univ., MA, 1949, DEd., 1955.

Exhibited: Tex. Oil 1958, Dallas Pub. Lib., Tex., 1958; Tex. Fine Arts Circuit Show, 1968; 104th Ann. Am. WC Soc. Exhib., 1971; 9th Ann. Southwestern Exhib. Prints & Drawings, Dallas; Mid-Am. Ann., William Parkhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City; Canyon Art Gallery, Canyon, TX, 1970s. Awards: Accolade Award for 20 Yrs. Art, Amarillo Globe Times, 1962; Kappa Pi Gold Plaque Hall of Fame, 1970.

Member: Fel. Royal Soc. Great Britain; Llano Estacado Heritage N. Mex. (art ed. 1970); Soc. Archit. Historians; Soc. Art Ther.

Work: Col. Southwest, Hobbs, N. Mex; Lovett Mem. Lib., Pampa, Tex.; St. Anne's Cath. Church, Canyon, Tex.; YWCA, Amarillo, Tex.; Pampa Youth Ctr. Commissions: mosaic facade, Tex. Midland Pub. Lib., 1958; copper enamels, Amarillo Savings & Loan, 1968, Hosea Foster Ins. Co., 1969, Amarillo Munic Bldg., 1969 & Bank Southwest, Midland, 1970.

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, enamel. Positions: art consult., Agnes Russell Ctr., Columbia Univ., 1951-1952; consult. art, Ed. Comt. Amarillo Art Alliance, 1970-; lectr., Friends of Fine Arts, 1970-. Teaching: Spec. art instr., Amarillo Pub. Schs., 1946-1949; prof. art & chmn. dept., W. Tex. State Univ., 1949-, faculty excellence award, 1972. Publications: contribr., Expression through Puppetry," Tex. Outlook, 1947; contribr., "Evocative Painting," Design, 1949; contribr., Watercolor Painting in Elementary Grades (Am. Crayon Co., 1949).

Sources: WW73; Elsie Wilbanks, Art on the Texas Plains (Lubbock Art Assn., 1959); L. Sumner, "Plains Party Line," Amarillo Globe News, 1960; G. Denko, "Caballero Heads Festival," Amarillo Globe, 1970."