Judith-Ann Saks, Biography

Education:

• Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University: BFA, Majors in Painting and Sculpture; Art Editor, The Tiresian. 1965; Scholars and Fellows Program: Member Fine Arts Committee for Student Center
• University of Houston, Seven semester Art courses, including Post Baccalaureate work
• Rice University: Audited one semester of Architecture and English
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, including one semester on scholarship awarded by The Houston Chronicle
• Texas Academy of Art

Listed in:'

• Who's Who in American Art
• Who's Who of American Women
• World's Who's Who of Women
• Who's Who in the World
• Notable Women of Texas
• 2000 Notable Americans
• Who's Who in America

Awards:

• Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
• National 1st Place Award, Family Tree of Thomas Luther Choiniere, 2017
• The Van Rensselaer Award, 2016
• National Women in the Arts Recognition Award, 2015
• TXDAR Women in the Arts Award, 2013
• 1st PLace, Watercolor, Art League of Houston: "Girl"
• 1st Place, Graphics, Art League of Houston: "Man Emerges in Space"1969
• 1st Place, Sculpture, Art League of Houston: "The Goddess"1968
• National 1st Place Award, American Heritage Remembered - Houston, Cultural Events and Traditions, 2010
• National 1st Place Award, Collage, NSDAR: "A Patchwork of Our Past", 2009
• National 1st Place Award, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Jamestowne: A New Day-A Heritage Remembered", 2007
• National 1st Place Award, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Women's Spirit of Unity and Purpose", 2000
• National 1st Place Award, Original Print, NSDAR: Bicentenial Project Port of Houston, 1987
• 1st Place, Cultural Events and Traditions, South Central Division (6 states), 2010
• 1st Place, Notecards, American Heritage Remembered:Houston, Texas State Award, 2010
• 1st PLace, Drawing, Texas State NSDAR Award: "Roots of My Heritage", 2002
• 1st Place, Acrylics, Texas State NSDAR Award: "Fourth of July Celebration", 2004
• 1st Place Texas Acrylics, 2003
• 1st Place, Art: Texas, NSDAR 2005
• National 2rd Place Award Acrylic painting, NSDAR Lilly in White, 2013
• 2nd and 3rd Place, Sears Roebuck Contemporary Art Festival, Water color, Anniston, AL
• National 3rd Place Award, Acrylic painting , American Heritage: "China Painting", 2016
• National 3rd Place Award, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Liberty", 2012
• National 3rd Place Award, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Proclaim Liberty", 2005
• National 3rd Place Award, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Memories, Looking for my Heritage", 2003
• Texas 3rd Place Group Award, Fiber Arts "Evening Cloak" 2016
• National Honorable Mention, Acrylic painting, NSDAR: "Hear the Bells-Let Freedom Ring", 2006
• National Honorable Mention, First National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College: Drawing,"Old Man and Woman"
• Arthur Q. Davis Prize for Drawing
• Natalie Jo Cohen Award, Drawing: For I Dwell in the House of the Lord
• Honorable Mention, Art League of Houston
• Honorable Mention, Eighth Annual East Alabama Art Exhibit. Oil painting: Fire
• Certificate of Merit, Latham International Poster Contest

One Person Shows:

• Alley Gallery (River Oaks Galleries)
• 2131 Galleries
• Bank of the Southwest, in celebration of the 135 birthday of Houston
• Houston Public Library
• The Woman's Club
• World Trade Club, Houston, TX

Some Group shows:

• Houston Public Library, Houston, TX
• Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
• 59 Annual Juried Exhibit, Museum of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
• Meinhard Galleries, Houston, TX
• Gallerie Barbizon, Houston, TX
• Park Crest Gallery, Dallas, TX
• Alley Gallery, Houston, TX
• Gamma Phi Gallery, Invitational
• Saks Art and Krafts Club, Anniston, AL numerous shows
• Ogunquint Art Center, 51st Annual National Exhibit, Oqunquit, Maine
• Security Bank and Trust Co., Wharton, TX
• Mississippi Arts Festival, Images on Paper, Jackson, Mississippi
• Mississippi Art Association Traveling Show
• First National Space Art Show, Denver, CO
• Third Annual Art Festival, Juried Exhibit, Alexandra, LA
• Baytown Art Exhibit, Juried Show, Baytown, TX
• Security Bank and Trust, Three Painters
• The Assistance League Invitational
• Unitarian Fellowship Beaux Arts Invitational
• Dimension Houston II and III, Invitational
• Chanel 8 Tel-Auction, Juried Exhibit
• Art Patron's League of Mobile, AL, 7th Juried Art Show
• Margolis Gallery, Houston, TX

Some Permanent Collections:

• Library, Windsor Castle, England
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Mt Vernon Hotel Museum, New York, NY
• Maritime Museum, Houston
• L.B. Johnson Manned Space Museum, Clear Lake City, TX
• The Heritage Society, the first museum in Houston to be accredited by the American Association of Museums.
• University of Houston, Permanent Collection
• University of Houston Library, Special Collections, William Bernreider Collection
• Peabody Museum, Maritime Collection
• Royal Norwegan Embassy, Chancery, Wahington, DC.
• University of Alabama Library, W.S. Hoole Special Collections
• State of Alabama, Department of Archives, Montgomery Alabama Archive Collections
• Public Library of Anniston and Calhoun County, Anniston, Alabama, Alabama Room
• St. Luke's Hospital, Houston, TX
• Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum, New York
• The Houston Yacht Club, LaPort Texas

Some Commissions:

• Roberts Steamship Agency, New Orleans, "The Strathaird" for musem in England
• Cruiser Houston, Cruiser Houston Memorial Room, University of Houston
• Official Bicentennial Project for the Port of Houston
• Artist; American Revolution Bicentennial Project for Port of Houston''
• Artist: Pin Oaks Horse Show - Group of 4 paintings of prize -winning horses
• Martha "Lady" Washington Pin, 2008
• Artist for "Celebrate America" Coloring Book, 2014

Some Articles

• Jewish Herald-Voice - March 28, 2015 "Houston artist Receives National Women in the Arts Recognition"
• Memorial Examiner- July 9, 2009 - "Saks Wins First Place in American Heritage Contest"
• Jewish Herald Voice - June 25, 2009 - "Saks Wins First Place in American Heritage Contest"
• Jewish Herald Voice - July 26, 2007 - "Local Artist Wins National First Prize"
• The Arkas (in Turkey), 2006 The Container Revolution-50 years of Containerization
• Absolutely! 2007 The Artist Among Us September/October
• Port of Houston Magazine, 6 covers and articles
• Port of Houston Magazine, Artist Glamorizes the Port http://www.portarchive.com/1971/09-September%20Page%201%20to%2020.pdf
• Southwestern Art, Vol II, No 1, p 40
• The Forem, Vol V, No 1, Page 29
• The Catline, Cover
• AJL Bulletin, Spring 1979, Southern Artist Judith-Ann Saks
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing; Allen brothers found the city on the bayou; artist Judy Saks rediscovered it on canvas
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing; Pin Oak paintings are up for auction
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing; Black tie arty party
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing; Ice is Nice
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing: A Painting Sails Into Her Life
• Houston Chronicle, Betty Ewing: Young Artist Knows Houston From All Angles
• Anniston Star, Miss Saks Presents One Woman Art Show in Houston
• Houston Post, Eleanor Freed, Landscapists
• Art Market News: Saks
• Daily Court Review, At BAnk of the Southwest Young Artist Displays Works
• The Wharton Journal, New Art exhiit at Security Bank Bldg
• Bellaire Texan, Betty Jukes, Judith Ann Saks - A Houstonian in love
• Maersk Post( in Copenhagen), Larry Keller, Window on Houston; Vol 16, No3

Some Books in which Saks is included:

• Retrieving Morning by JoAn Watson Martin, Cover Art, 2009
• Images of America: Houston 1860-1900, Three paintings of Houston, 2010
• History of the Women's Club, Painting of Houston
• Bicentennial Times Commemorative Reprints