A leader in the oil industry, Joseph S. Cullinan first founded the Magnolia Petroleum Company before becoming a founding partner and president of Texaco. The Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston ...

Frank A. Parsons gave this address while President of the New York School of Arts.

Gus Wortham served as chairman of the Houston Symphony campaign while Ima Hogg was president of the Houston Symphony Society.

James Chillman, Jr., served as the first director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His tenure at the MFAH lasted from 1924-1953. During his tenure, Chillman also held a professorship in the ...

Mike Hogg, Texas legislator, businessman and Houstonian civic leader, was the son of first native Texan governor, James Stephen Hogg. In 1917,as the United States entered World War I, Mike Hogg ...

Dr. Ira B. Bryant was part of the Southern University in New Orleans Visiting Scholars Program Sept. 8 through Dec. 9, 1975. He taught a course entitled 'Social and Political Change that Affect the American Dream.'

Art historian, lecturer, and critic, Stella Hope Shurtleff was an early active member of the Houston Art League. Her lectures for the League and the Museum of Fine, Houston, first given in 1916, ...

The Houston Art League was the predecessor of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.