David Adickes, the painter and sculptor responsible for some of Texas’s most popular public art, died on Sunday at the age of 98. His eight-decade career took him from a modest childhood in Huntsville to the galleries of France and Japan before landing him back in southeast Texas, where he became a pillar of the Houston art scene. In postwar Houston, Adickes’s idiosyncratic paintings—many featuring his trademark elongated figures, known as “Adickes men”—were exhibited in museums across the state and collected by wealthy Texans. Later in life, Adickes turned to public art, creating massive statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, as well as a nearly complete set of two-story-high presidents’ heads. Read Next: Will This 98-Year-Old Sculptor Ever Find a Home for His…
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