Among many first-rate artists transplanted to Texas, Seymour Fogel (1911-1984) stood out for a wide range of distinctive styles that cohere through adroit draftsmanship, judicious use of color, and during his most celebrated period, swirling inventive geometries,” writes Katie Robinson Edwards in Midcentury Modern Art in Texas (2014). In 1946, Fogel joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and for the next eight years was not only prolific in his own right, but was a founder of the Texas Modernist Movement. He created murals in Austin, Houston, and Waco and was the recipient of many awards and prizes. He was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, D.D. Feldman Collections of Contemporary Texas Art, Dallas and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin. His paintings hang in the Dallas Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Before Fogel became a Modernist, he was a Social Realist in the tradition of Diego Rivera.