Early Education: Studied with William Bailey, James McGarrell, Robert Barnes, and Ronald Markman
Education:
1969 M. F. A. in painting and drawing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1966 B. A. in painting and drawing, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
1965 Summer Study, Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Exhibitions:
2024 Botanical: An Invitational Exhibition in Celebration of our 70th Anniversary, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2013 Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Group Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 Top of the Table, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charolette, NC
2007 The Art Show, Art Dealer’s Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Kingdom Animalia: Creatures Big and Small by Artists Old and New (group exhibition), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 Still Life Poetry, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2004 Art Chicago, art fair, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (Valley House Gallery)
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2003 Holiday Group Exhibition, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2003 Recent Paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Size Does Matter, Contrasts of Scale in Contemporary Art, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Holiday Group Exhibition, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
2002 Beyond the Apple & Bottle: Still Life Invitational, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Art Atlanta, art fair, Atlanta, Georgia (Valley House Gallery)
2002 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Invitational Miniature Show, Leslie Levy Fine Art, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona
2001 New Oil Paintings: Donna Phipps Stout, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2001 Texas International Fine Art Fair, NorthPark East, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2001 USArtists 2001 Tenth Anniversary art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
2001 One Person Show, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2000 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 Dallas International Art & Antique Fair, The Dallas International Pavilion at Victory, Dallas, Texas, (Valley House Gallery)
2000 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1999 One Person Show, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1999 USArtists99, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1999 63rd National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1999 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1998 USArtists98, artfair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1998 Still Life Paintings: Donna Phipps Stout, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois
1998 Still Life Painting Today, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1997 Two Person Show, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1997 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 USArtists 97, artfair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1997 Works by Women: Three Waco Family Collections, The Art Center, Waco, Texas, (curator: Mickey Smith)
1997 Two Person Show, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma (with Ken Stout)
1997 Art & Bloom, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
1997 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1997 American Inaugural Art Exhibit, Washington Design Center, Washington, D. C.
1997 Still Life, invitational show, Mulligan-Shanoski, San Francisco, California
1996 U.S. Artists, art fair, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1996 One Person Show, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1996 Two Person Show, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri (with Ken Stout)
1996 Art Miami, art fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida (Valley House Gallery)
1995 U.S. Artists, art fair, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1995 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995 Art of the Garden, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
1995 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1994 U.S. Artists, art fair, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1994 One Person Show, Jerald Melberg, Charlotte, North Carolina
1994 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 ARTexas ‘94, 500 Inc., Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1994 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1994 One Person Show, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
1993 U.S. Artists, art fair, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1993 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1993 One Person Show, Charles B. Goddard Art Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma
1993 ARTexas ‘93, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1993 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1993 Salon Biennal 1993, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1992 U.S. Artists, art fair, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Texas Gallery Show, Infomart, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1992 One Person Show, Galerie Bagheera, St. Tropez, France
1992 One Person Show, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris, France
1992 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Eight Women Artists in Arkansas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1992 Recent Works By, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 One Person Show, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1991 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1990 Group Invitational, Contemporanea Fine Arts, Hot Springs, Arkansas
1990 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990 Images and Objects, The Castle, Boston, Massachusetts (Valley House Gallery)
1990 Summer Exhibition, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990 Lennart Anderson Selects: National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York, New York Juror: Lennart Anderson
1990 Art and the Garden, Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
1990 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 Introductions, Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
1989 Two Painters, O'Hayward Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1988 AART Show '88, Worthen Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas, Thomas Livesay, juror, Award Winner and "Best of Show"
1988 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 AART Show '87, Worthen Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2nd Place Award and "Best of Show"
1987 30th Annual Delta Exhibit, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Theodore Wolffe, juror
1986 Group Show, Carlyle Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1985 Summer Show, Heights Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
1985 Firstshow '85, Firstsouth Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas, John Neff, juror
1985 35th Spiva Annual, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
1984 Arkansas Art, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
1982 One Person Show, Central State University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1981 31st Spiva Annual, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
1980 Visual Arts Catalogue, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1980 Two Person Show, Ralston Purina Building, St. Louis, Missouri
1980 One Person Show, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky
Awards and Honors:
1996 Mid-America Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting and Works on Paper
1993 37th International Painting Colony, Prilep, Macedonia
1993 Farman Still Life Prize, Salon Biennal 1993, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1991 Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Reader's Digest Fellowship, Austerlitz, N.Y.
1989 Arkansas Arts Council Artists Fellowship, Juror: Robert Colescott
Literature:
Michele Corriel, “Art Santa Fe 2005,” W!ld Blue Yonder The Magazine of Frontier Airlines, July/August 2005 (Nasturtiums and Ribbons reproduced).
Gussie Fauntleroy, “In Bloom: Donna Phipps Stout turns everyday flowers and plants into exquisite still lifes,” Southwest Art, July 2004, pp. 116-119.
50th Anniversary, catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2004, color illustration.
Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S., Colonial to 2002, compiled by Bob Crebs, Dealer’s Choice Books, Land O’ Lakes, Florida, 2002, 2 volumes.
“Special Series, Realism Today, The Still Life,” Southwest Art, December 2001, pp. 89, 102.
Kurtz, Robert L., curator, 63rd National Midyear Exhibition catalogue, published by The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, July 10-August 22, 1999, cover illustration.
E. Lynne Moss, “Daily Life in Still Life,” supplement published by American Artist, 1998, pp. 6-7.
Mike Daniel, “Donna Phipps Stout at Valley House,” The Dallas Morning News Guide, November 28, 1997, p. 2.
Donna Phipps Stout, exhibition catalogue, essay by Keith Holz, Valley House Gallery, 1997.
Becca Bacon Martin, “Husband, Wife Artists Exhibit at Joplin Show,” The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, May 24, 1996, p. C-1.
Tom Patterson, “Avery Retrospective Honor Everyday Beauty,” The Charlotte Observer, November 20, 1994, p. 2F.
Northwest Arkansas City Guide, 1994, illustration on p. 10, (Strawberry Nocturne reproduced, erroneously labeled Spring Yellow).
David Wise, “Donna Phipps Stout, painter,” In Vision, Fayetteville, Arkansas, December 24, 1993, cover and page 13, (February 6 AM reproduced on the cover)
William Childress, "The Still Life: Making Things More than They Are," American Artist, September 1993, pp. 44-49, 74-76, illustrations on pages 44-49.
"Arkansas Watch: Arkansas on Their Minds," Arkansas Times, August 1993.
Mike Rodman, "Fayetteville Pair Find Art Lives Next to War," Arkansas Democrat Gazette, July 30, 1993.
"Donna Phipps Stout," Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, no. 22-29 May 1992.
Delphine Montalant, review of Galerie Hopkins-Thomas exhibition, L'Oeil, June 1992, p. 77.
"Celebrating Arkansas Women Artists," Newsletter from Senator David Pryor, May 20, 1991.
Dorothy Cox, "Take a walk on cutting edge of art," Arkansas Gazette, November 1, 1990, pp. E1,3.
Wilson Library Bulletin, September 1990, (Casaba reproduced on the cover).
Bill Bowden, "Washington County Artist's subjects give new meaning to term 'still life'", Arkansas Democrat, September 17, 1989.
"Artist has special fondness for Marshall County," Tribune-Courier (Benton, Kentucky), March 16,1988.
The Arkansas Lawyer, January 1988, (May Afternoon reproduced on the cover).
Teaching:
1992 Adjunct Professor of Art, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1984 Visiting Professor of Art, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas
1977 Visiting Professor of Art, Florissant Valley Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
1971-72 Assistant Professor of Art, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
1969-71 Instructor of painting, drawing, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
