Lufkin Centennial Sketchbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: THR/01/2024.s290

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This is a single-item collection that contains a series of sketches by Ralph Stuart.

Dates

Creation: 1982 - 1990

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Biographical / Historical

“A native of Oklahoma, Ralph Stuart is a veteran illustrator and advertising executive who now makes his home in Crockett, Texas.

He has been preserving in pen and ink historic Texas homes and commercial buildings since 1975, when he gegan marketing his own line of fine art prints – including a series of outstanding Galveston structures – under the name The House of Stuart.

At an age when most men are retired, he is still active as an artist, writer and advertising designer. “I have promised myself to set a new goal of producing at least three paintings a month just to get out of my soul what creative attitudes I have bottled up all these years as an advertising man and artist,” he says.”

Biographical / Historical

Lufkin, Texas is the county seat of Angelina County. The city was founded by Abraham P. Lufkin in 1884. It was originally a stop on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. It was officially incorporated on October 15, 1890.

Extent

1 file (A series of sketches by Ralph Stuart, featuring various railroad stations. The sketchbook is titled "The Depots of Lufkin: A Centennial Sketchbook of Lufkin Railroad Systems.")