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he Neill-Cochran House Museum is honored to present a retrospective exhibition of the work of the Austin-based and nationally acclaimed landscape painter Cassandra James (1947 - 2012). Over five decades, James developed a unique painterly style embedded in the principles of European Renaissance paint layering. This exhibition will for the first time in over a decade bring together work that remains in the collection of the artist’s family and friends, including sketchbooks that illuminate her practice.

James spent time on both coasts – California and Florida – when she was not in Texas, and her work reminds us that we are all connected to one another and to the earth that is our home through the element of landscape that is most universal: the sky. She wrote that more than place, it is the sky that has become the dominant, compelling visual element in my work.

Join us in this celebration of the power of artistic expression and of the environment that James championed in life through her work.