Frank Reagh

Reaugh worked in three kinds of studio. In Oak Cliff, his carpenter father built him a shed nicknamed the Ironshed, where he taught classes with strict entry rules. In 1920 he converted a Model T frame into a touring car called the Cicada, a rolling studio with a drop-down work table and a thirty-gallon water tank for sketching trips. Then in 1928 and 1929 he put up El Sibil, also called the Vault, a concrete and stucco studio above Lake Cliff Park. In 1937 he gave part of his collection to the University of Texas.

What the plaque says

Frank Reagh Artist Frank Reagh (1860-1945), who immortalized the Texas longhorn, began sketching and studying his favorite subject in 1876 when he and his parents, George W. and Clarinda Reaugh, moved from Illinois to Kaufman County. He studied art in St. Louis and Europe but returned to the Texas prairie for inspiration. The family came (1890) to Dallas where Reaugh became influential through his teaching and interest in the arts. He built "El Sibil" as studio and home in 1928. His pastels of frontier Texas cattle, lauded by historians, can be seen in many Texas cities. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.9 mi
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• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 2.4 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 2.6 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 3.7 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

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