David McGee takes top honors at Texan-French Alliance
for the Arts benefit

 MARCH 2011

Chaired by Martha Finger with co-chairs Laure Parise and Joëlle Petit and honorary chair Lynn Wyatt, the the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts' second Art Award & Auction benefited TFAA and Texas Children's Cancer Center's Art in Medicine program.

Held at the Decorative Arts Center, the auction featured work by 40 Texas and French artists. Judy Nyquist served as honorary selection chair of a committee of museum and arts professionals who chose Houston artist David McGee's watercolor Sartre & Camus as the winning artwork.

Congrats to McGee, who wins a 10-day residency in France, and to second prize winner Daniel Farioli, a French artist; and third-prize winner Jonathan Leach, a Houston artist.

Frankly Francophile: selection committee members Catherine Anspon, Dominique Chastres, Claudia Schmuckli, Wendy Watriss, Bill Arning, Toby Kamps, Alison de Lima Greene and Marc Pottier; Françoise and Mickey Henry, Susie and Sanford Criner, Devin Borden and Wade Wilson.

 Article written by Douglas Britt - Houston Chronicle