page_title: Verner Moore White
section_title: White's work in Texas
hierarchical_section_title: Verner Moore White / White's work in Texas
caption_attribution_description: English: Verner Moore White painting, The Harbor at Galveston, was painted for the Texas exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Courtesy of the Houston Public Library
context_page_description: Verner Moore White, born Thomas Verner Moore White but informally known as Verner White, was an American landscape and portrait painter. White painted works for many of the business and political leaders of his time including commissions for three United States Presidents.
context_section_description: White returned to the United States in 1895 and spent the next nine years living and working in Texas.  For a couple years, White traveled and painted his way through towns primarily in southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana.  During this period, the Houston Post reported that while in Galveston, he "completed an excellent picture in oil depicting William J. Bryan on a duck hunt, critics pronounce it a real work of art."
  In 1897, White moved to San Antonio where he set up a studio in San Pedro Park and attracted increasing attention and notoriety.  The city fathers of San Antonio awarded White the commission for a painting of The Alamo to be given to U.S. President William McKinley and Mrs. McKinley during their visit to the city in 1901.  White garnered significant public recognition with his painting titled The Alamo with Señora Candelaria.   The original of the painting was given to President McKinley, and the lithograph of the image was hung in hundreds of public schools throughout Texas.  White later painted an original copy of the painting that today hangs in the Alamo Museum.
  In 1902, White was awarded the commission by the World's Fair Commission for Texas to paint a series of twelve large oil paintings, that represented the natural resources and industries of Texas, to adorn the Texas exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (also known as the St. Louis World's Fair).  The scenes included artistic representations of oil fields, agricultural fields, pecan groves, granite quarries, and ranch scenes.  To date, only one of White's World's Fair Commission paintings is known to survive.  It is thought that maybe the others were destroyed by a fire in his St. Louis studio in 1915.  The surviving panorama, The Harbor at Galveston was donated to the Houston Public Library by White's widow, Mertie Boughton White, after his death.
caption: The Harbor at Galveston, Courtesy Houston Public Library
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