Featured Publications
Books and exhibition Catalogs
- 1943 Neruda, Pablo. The Paintings of Dorothy Hood. Mexico City: Galería de Arte María Asúnsolo (GAMA). Exhibition brochure.
- 1950 Dorothy Hood. New York: Willard Gallery. Exhibition catalog.
- 1957 Golden Years of American Drawing: 1905–1956. Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Museum. Exhibition catalog.
- 1965 Doro, Edward. Dorothy Hood. Houston, Texas: Meredith Long & Company. Exhibition catalog. Hayes, Jr., Bartlett. Drawings of the Masters, New York: Shorewood. The Drawings, Paintings, and Gouaches of Dorothy Hood. Houston, Texas: Meredith Long & Company. Exhibition brochure.
- 1970 Harithas, James. Dorothy Hood: Recent Paintings. Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum. Exhibition catalog.
- 1971 California State College. Other Coasts Exhibition ’71. Long Beach, California: California State College. Exhibition catalog. Southern Methodist University. Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century. Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University. Exhibition catalog. The Larger Canvas – 5 Houston Artists Commissioned by Houston National Bank. Houston, Texas: Houston National Bank. Exhibition brochure.
- 1972 Hood, Dorothy. Dorothy Hood’s Paintings, Syracuse, New York: Everson Museum of Art. Exhibition catalog. Women in Art. Potsdam, New York: State University of New York. Exhibition catalog.
- 1974 12/Texas. Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum. Exhibition catalog. Dorothy Hood: Drawings. Syracuse, New York: Everson Museum of Art, 1974. Exhibition catalog.
- 1976 New Works in Clay by Painters and Sculptors. Syracuse, New York: Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University, 1976. Exhibition catalog.
- 1977 Brodsky, Judith. Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women. Los Angeles, California: The Women’s Building. Exhibition brochure. Harithas, James and Margie Hughto. Dorothy Hood Drawings. Syracuse, New York: Everson Museum of Art. Exhibition catalog. Hering, Karl-Heinz and Rene Berger, Pierre Restany. The Collector Theodor Ahrenberg and the Studio in Chexbres. 15 Years With Art and Artists 1960-1975. Dusseldorf, Germany: Dusseldorf Kuntshalle. Exhibition catalog.
- 1978 Holmes, Ann. Paintings and Drawings by Dorothy Hood. San Antonio, Texas: McNay Art Institute. Exhibition catalog.
- 1979 Surls, James. FIRE! Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum. Exhibition catalog. Sween, Trudy. Doors: Houston Artists. Houston, Texas: Brooke Publishing. Exhibition catalog.
- 1980 Lee, Jana Vander and John Perreault. A Sense of Spirit. Houston, Texas: Lawndale Annex, Exhibition catalog.
- 1982 Brauer, David. Art from Houston in Norway. Houston, Texas: Houston/Stavanger Sister City Society, 1982. Exhibition catalog. Cathcart, Linda. The Americans: Collage. Houston: Texas: The Contemporary Arts Museum. Exhibition catalog. Cathcart, Linda, Marti Mayo, and Cheryl A. Brutvan. In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, 1948-1982. Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum. Exhibition catalog. Art From Houston in Norway. Stavanger, Norway: Stavanger Kunstforening. Exhibition Catalog.
- 1983 Camfield, William. New Work from a New City. Salzburg, Austria: Kuntsverein. Exhibition catalog. Images of Texas. Austin, Texas: Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas. Exhibition catalog.
- 1984 Tufts, Eleanor, American Women Artists: A Selected Bibliographic Guide, New York: Garland Publishing.
- 1985 Kalil, Susie and Barbara Rose. Fresh Paint. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition catalog.
- 1986 Carlozzi, Annette. 50 Texas Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in Texas, San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Mahoney, J.W., Dorothy Hood. Washington D.C.: Wallace Wentworth Gallery. Exhibition catalog.
- 1988 Hobbs, Robert, C. Dorothy Hood’s Collages: Connecting Change. Washington D.C.: Wallace Wentworth Gallery, 1988. Exhibition catalog. Texas Women. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Exhibition catalog.
- 1989 McEviley, Thomas. Another Reality. Houston, Texas: Hooks Epstein Gallery. Exhibition catalog.
- 1993 Artists’ Progress: Seven Houston Artists 1943-1993. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Exhibition catalog. Images from Space. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition catalog.
- 1995 Texas Myths and Realities. Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition catalog.
- 1998 Carraro, Francine. Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art. Beaumont, Texas: Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Exhibition catalog.
- 2003 Miller, Lauraine. Dorothy Hood: a Pioneer Modernist. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas. Exhibition catalog.
- 2007 Texas Modern: The Rediscovery of Early Texas Abstraction (1935-1965). Waco Texas: Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University. Exhibition catalog.
- 2011 Portrait of Houston: 1900–2011. Houston, Texas: Alliance Gallery, Houston Arts Alliance. Exhibition catalog.
- 2014 Edwards, Katie Robinson. Midcentury Modern Art in Texas, Austin: University of Texas. White, Mark Andrew. Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the American Southwest. Norman, Oklahoma: Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma.
- 2016 Kalil, Susie. The Color of Being / El Color del Ser. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press. Monograph.
- 2018 De Lima Greene, Alison, Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood, Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2018. Exhibition catalog. Gershon, Pete. Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 2018. Exhibition catalog.
- 2019 “Dorothy Hood: Illuminated Earth at McClain Gallery.” Houston, Texas: McClain Gallery. Exhibition catalog. Tyler, Ron ed., The Art of Texas: 250 Years. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press.
- 2023 Satterwhite, Erin C. The Void in Painting: Dorothy Hood’s Contributions to Modern Art, BFA Thesis, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, 2023.
Feature articles and reviews in magazines and newspapers
- 1936 “San Jacinto Pupils Given Scholarships. Houston Chronicle.
- 1941 “Artists Form Company to Finance Tour, Offering Painting as Dividend Payment.” Houston Chronicle, August 8, 1941.
- 1943 Antonio, Juan. “La Pintora Norte Americana Dorothy Hood.” Notas de Arte. “Houston Artist’s Work Acclaimed in Mexico City.” Houston Chronicle. Ontañón, Mada. “Buisqueda y Hallazgo de Dorothy Hood.” Arte (Mexican Cultural Magazine). Quedo, J.M. “Inaugurada Exposición de la Artistia Srita. Hood.” El Tiempo, March 12, 1943.
- 1947 “Hans Bellmer, Dorothy Hood,” New Yorker, April 1947.
- 1950 Art Digest 25, no. 1 (October 1, 1950). Art News, XLIX, no. 6 (October 1950). Preston, Stuart. “Notes about art.” New York Times, October 15, 1950.
- 1955 “Arte: Fantasía y Paradoja.” Tiempo XXVIL, no. 696 (September 5, 1955). Crespo de la Serna, Jorge J. “Por Museos y Galerías de Arte.” Excelsior 34, no. 1728 (1955). “Exposition de Dorothy Hood.” Excelsior, El Periodciao De La Vida Nacional, August 20, 1955. “Fantasy and Paradox. Dorothy Hood,” Time Magazine. Holmes, Ann. “The Spotlight: The Sortie of a Provocative Young Artist.” Houston Chronicle, July 1955. Nelken, Margarita. “En el Salón del Arte Libre.” Excélsior, March 27, 1955. Nelken, Margarita. “La de Dorothy Hood.” Excélsior, September 2, 1955. Palencia, Ceferino. “Las Exposiciones Pictóricas de Dorothy Hood y Walter Plum.” Novedades, August 28, 1955. Quijano, Alejandro. “Abrio su Exposicion la Pintora Hood en las Gaerias Proteo.” Novedades, August 20, 1955. “Sights and Sounds of a New Season.” Houston Chronicle, September 20, 1955.
- 1958 Arnason, H. H. “New Talent USA.” Art in America, 1958. “Dorothy Hood to Show Her Ink Drawings,” Bulletin, Philadelphia Art Alliance, December 1958. Preston, Stuart. “Dorothy Hood – Surrealist Overtones,” New York Times.
- 1960 Holmes, Ann. “Dorothy Hood’s Art is Strong, Enigmatic.” Houston Chronicle, April 27, 1960. Nelken, Margarita. “La de Dorothy Hood,” Excélsior, February 21, 1960. Palencia, Ceferino. “Obras de Sjolander y Dorothy Hood”, Novedades: Mexico en la Cultura, February 21, 1960.
- 1962 Review, Houston Chronicle, November 25, 1962.
- 1963 Bowers, Molly. “Artist ‘Thinks of Form.’” Houston Post, Woman’s World, June 17, 1963.
- 1964 Geeslin, Campbell. “Review of Color!” Houston Post, May 17, 1964.
- 1965 “The Texas Woman.” Houston Chronicle Sunday Magazine, March 21, 1965. Special insert, cover image.
- 1967 Freed, Eleanor. “One Woman’s Vision.” Houston Post, April 23, 1967.
- 1969 Freed, Eleanor. “Spotlight: Dorothy Hood.” Houston Post, March 16, 1969. Holmes, Ann. “D. Hood’s Vivid Imagery.” Houston Chronicle, March 24, 1969.
- 1970 Freed, Eleanor. “Invasion of the Firmament.” Houston Post, May 3, 1970. Freed, Eleanor. “Highway Culture.” Houston Post, May 16, 1970. Hobdy, D.J. “The Artist Life—Is it any Different—Here and Now.” Houston Chronicle, August 23, 1970. Holmes, Ann. “Dorothy Hood’s New Work: Brilliant Episodes in Space.” Zest, Houston Chronicle, May 17, 1970. Jacobs, Jay. “Pertinent & Impertinent.” The Art Gallery Magazine, May 1970.
- 1971 de Montebello, Philipe. “A Surrealist Abstraction: Dorothy Hood’s Haiti.” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Houston, Texas, II, June 1971. Muck, Gordon F. “Show ‘Rare, Wonderful.” Syracuse Post Standard, July 17, 1972.
- 1972 “Art Circles, Dorothy Hood’s Exhibition in Sewall Hall Gallery at Rice Lives Up to Earlier Expectations.” Houston Chronicle, March 5, 1972. “Dorothy Hood ‘s Drawings.” Art in Focus 23, no. 6 (March 1972): n.p. Freed, Eleanor. “Paintings with Presence.” Houston Post, March 5, 1972. Lerman, Rhoda. “Everson Features Painting & Photography.” Syracuse New Times, June 20, 1972. Opera Cues. Houston, Texas, 13, no. 1, (1972): 1.
- 1974 Holmes, Ann. “Two Major Art Galleries Saluting Houston’s Hood.” Houston Chronicle, April 23, 1974. Kramer, Hilton. “Dorothy Hood.” Review, New York Times, May 4, 1974. Pfister, Shirley. “Artist Dorothy Hood: Abstractionist Lives in Regions of Exploration.” Houston Chronicle, May 5, 1974.
- 1975 Brady, Rosemary. “Artist Tries New Medium.” Syracuse Herald-Journal, August 11, 1975. Cunningham, Carl. “Down on the Bayou.” Houston Post, May 4, 1975. “Dorothy Hood ‘no accident that NASA is here.’” This is Houston Scene, ‘75, 1975. Holmes, Ann. “Hood Show Reaffirms her Stature.” Houston Chronicle, March 12, 1975. “Interview: Dorothy Hood.” Currant Magazine, 1, no. 5 (December 1975-January 1976): 44. Terry, Walter. “Next Stops: Houston, Salt Lake, Hollywood, Chicago, NYC, Etc.” Saturday Review, July 26, 1975.
- 1976 Crossley, Mimi. “Tribute Exhibition reveals fresh artistry from Hood.” Houston Post, January 15, 1976. Dempsey, Lotta. “Visiting artist’s work has two showings.” Toronto Star, September 25, 1976.
- 1977 Carpenter, Ken. “New Works in Clay at Edmonton Art Gallery.” Art Magazine, 1974. Crossley, Mimi. “A Bridge Between Worlds.” The Houston Post Spotlight, October 2, 1977. Kramer, Hilton. “Dorothy Hood.” The New York Times. Ms. Magazine, February 1977.
- 1978 “Dorothy Hood at Meredith Long.” Arts Magazine, June 1978. Ffrench-Frazier, Nina. “Dorothy Hood.” Arts Magazine. Lee, Amy Freeman. “The McNay Shows off An Artistic Spelunker.” San Antonio Express-News, June 11, 1978. Moore, Sylvia. “Dorothy Hood Interviewed.” Women Artists News 4, no. 5 (November 1978). Moser, Charlotte. “San Antonio Museums Show Houston ‘lyricism’.” Houston Chronicle, July 9, 1978.
- 1979 Crossley, Mimi. “Dorothy Hood Paintings.” Houston Post, Fri. April 13, 1979. Holmes, Ann. “Dorothy Hood’s art being shown in handsome exhibit.” Houston Chronicle, April 6, 1979. McIntosh, Barbara. “At Home: Dorothy Hood.” Houston Post, May 19, 1979.
- 1980 Buonagurio, Edgar. “Dorothy Hood at Meredith Long.” Arts Magazine, May 1980. Hood, Dorothy. “Sighting The Invisible Frontier.” Art Journal, Summer 1980.
- 1982 Johnson, Patricia C. “Dorothy Hood: A Lover of Painting, of Life, of Mexico.” Houston Chronicle, February 28, 1982. Moore, Sylvia. “Dorothy Hood.” Woman’s Art Journal, 1, no. 2 (Autumn, 1980 – Winter, 1981): 51-54.
- 1983 Johnson, Patricia C. “Hood Collages more Robust.” Houston Chronicle, November 17, 1983. Watson, Keith. “Mayor’s Awards, Parker, Hood among the winners cited for artistic contributions.” Houston Post, March 12, 1983. Wego, Nina. “Variert og Moderne Kunst fra Houston.” Aftenpotten, Aftengutgaven (Oslo Norway), n.d.
- 1984 Crumbaker, Marge. “Art League readying tribute to painter Dorothy Hood.” Houston Post, March 28, 1984.. Everingham, Carol J. “Hood exhibition both visual and vocal.” Houston Post, April. 1, 1984. Johnson, Patricia C. “Hood Calls art Landscapes of her Psyche.” Houston Chronicle, March 31, 1984. Kakrabi, Barbara. “Filmmaker focuses on Houston artist Hood.” Houston Chronicle, March 18, 1984.
- 1985 Everingham, Carol J. “Fresh Paint: The Houston School.” Arts Magazine. Ewing, Betty. “Cameras will roll next month on Dorothy Hood film project.” Houston Chronicle, January 15, 1985. “Happy Halley Daze,” New York Magazine. State of the Arts – The Houston Spirit. Houston Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Texas.
- 1986 Everingham, Carol. “Review of 1985 Houston art brings out best, worst.” Houston Post, January 24, 1986. Johnson, Patricia C. “Film is eloquent self-portrait of Houston artist Dorothy Hood.” Houston Chronicle, January 27, 1986. Randerson, Middy. “Documentary Puts Houston Painter’s life in sharp focus.” Houston Post, January 30, 1986. Welzenbach, Michael. “Wallace Wentworth Exhibition.” Washington Times, February 13, 1986.
- 1988 Crumbaker, Marge. “Artist Dorothy Hood Draws Special Honor.” Houston Post, January 1988. “Dorothy Hood: Connecting Change.” Maier Museum of Art Bulletin XI, no. 1 (Fall 1988): Cover and interior. “Dorothy Hood at Wallace Wentworth,” Museum and Arts, March-April 1988. Holmes, Ann. “Insight: Houston Artist Dorothy Hood.” Zest magazine, Houston Chronicle, February 7, 1988. Johnson, Patricia C. “Exhibitions Show Hood’s Consistency.” Houston Chronicle, February 5, 1988.
- 1989 Elsa Honig Fine, “One Point Perspective.” Woman’s Art Journal, 11, no. 1 (Spring-Summer, 1990): 2. Johnson, Patricia C. “Another Reality: Gallery offers Texas magic.” Houston Chronicle, June 3, 1989.
- 1990 “Design School Honors Houston Artist.” Houston Chronicle, June 4, 1990. “Dorothy Hood: Personality of the Month.” Turista, Houston’s Bilingual Tourist Magazine, August 1990. “The Houston 200,” Ultra, IX, no 11 (July 1990): 52A.
- 1991 “Dorothy Hood’s Art—An Enduring Presence.” Women and Their Work, Art Alert Newsletter 1, no.1 (1991): n.p.
- 1992 Holmes, Ann. “Dorothy Hood: A Celebration of Creativity.” Museum and Arts, Houston. “Dorothy Hood – Personality of the Month,” Turista, Houston’s Bilingual Tourist Magazine.
- 1993 Laird, Cheryl. “50 Women who made their mark in and on Houston.” Houston Chronicle, April 4, 1993. McKay, Gary. “Old Guard.” Houston Metropolitan, March 1993. Tennant, Donna. “Texas Tenacity: Seven Houston Artists 1943-1993.” Museum and Arts, Houston, October 1993.
- 1998 Anspon, Catherine, D. “Best Art.” Paper City, October 1998. Dewan, Shaila. “The Overlooked Abstractionist.” Houston Press, October 8, 1998. Johnson, Patricia, C. “Exhibits explore the cosmos through Dorothy Hood’s eyes.” Houston Chronicle, September 8, 1998.
- 1999 Kalil, Susie. “Dorothy Hood.” Artlies, 9, no. 24 (Fall 1999): 41-43.
- 2015 Anspon, Catherine, D. “Tracing the Footsteps of Texas’ Greatest Painter and Finding the Holy Grail in Corpus Christi.” Paper City, August 12, 2015. Dunn, Deborah Fullerton, William Reeves, and Sarah Foltz. Bayou City Chic: Progressive Streams of Modern Art in Houston. Corpus Christi, Texas: Art Museum of South Texas. Tommaney, Susie. “Houston Fine Art Fair Offers Exclusive Preview of Dorothy Hood Retrospective.” Houston Press, August 28, 2015. Tommaney, Susie. “Houstonians Important to American Abstract Expressionist Movement.” Houston Press, November 13, 2015.
- 2016 Anspon, Catherine, D. “Texas’ Painter of the Century? A Remarkable Woman Artist Final Gets her Rightful Respect.” Paper City, September 9, 2016. Anspon, Catherine, D. “Texas’ Greatest 20th-Century Artist Finally Gets Her Due.” Paper City, December 7, 2016. Glentzer, Molly. “The enigmatic legacy of Dorothy Hood.” Chron. November 23, 2016. Hackleman, Esther Marie. “Abstract Independent: Dorothy Hood Retrospective at Art Museum of South Texas.” Arts and Culture Texas, October 3, 2016. Landi, Ann. “Ripe for Rediscovery: Dorothy Hood.” Vasari 21, September 24, 2016. Regas, Jordan. “The Color of Being/El Color del Ser.” The Bend Magazine, September 2016. Tommaney, Susie. “Six Pioneering Abstract Expressionists at Texas-size Exhibit.” Houston Press, February 1, 2016. Tommaney, Susie. “Big and Bold: Bayou City Expressionists Command Attention at Reaves | Foltz.” Houston Press, March 3, 2016. Vine, Katy. “Fame in the Abstract.” Texas Monthly, September 2016.
- 2017 Knudson, Rainey. “Dorothy Hood: the Color of Being/El Color de Ser.” Glasstire, January 1, 2017. Tyler, Ron. “Review: The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood, 1918—2000 by Susie Kalil,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 121, no. 1 (July 2017): 115-116.
- 2018 Green, Tyler. “No.371: Kehinde Wiley, Nevelson & Hood,” Produced by Tyler Green, The Modern Art Notes, December 13, 2018, Podcast, MP3 audio, 1:16.
- 2019
Pyne, Lydia. “Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood’s Surreal Abstractions.” Hyperallergic, November 15, 2019.
Tommaney, Susie. “Hood and Nevelson: Pioneering Artists Who (Probably) Never Met, Until Now.”
- 2020 Bell, Graham W. Bell, “A Little Memory. Dorothy Hood’s Collages at McClain Gallery.” Medium, October 12, 2020.
Film
- 1982 From the Heart. Executive Producer: Gihon Foundation, 58 min.
- 1985 Dorothy Hood: The Color of Life. PRP Productions, Director: Carl Colby, Producer, Carolyn Farb, 30 min.