DOROTHY HOOD (American/Texas 1919-2000) A PAINTING, "Space of the Rainbow," 1960s-1970s, oil on canvas, signed and titled on the stretcher, "Dorothy Hood - Space of the Rainbow." 70" x 90" Private collection, Houston, Texas. This work is very similar to the period of work cited in the book "The Color of Being, El Color Del Ser" written by Susie Kalil "Auriaga II" on page 142 in which the works were considered the best of this period. In 1962 she began exhibiting her work at a major gallery in Houston and had five one-person exhibitions at major Texas museums since 1971. In 1973 she won a Childe Hassam Purchase Prize at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City. A thirty-year retrospective traveling exhibition curated by the Everson Museum in Syracuse helped establish her national reputation, snow-balling to an international reputation through exhibitions and commissions in New York, Canada, and Europe. No doubt, this work would have been produced during this time (circa 1977) and considered a master work of space and time melding together, producing the cascading effect of light and color.

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