With Laguna Gloria, Clara Driscoll Laid Foundation for Art in Austin

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REYNOSA,TAMAULIPAS — Justbefore dusk, Carlos Torres gets readdy for work on the night shift. Thememories ofhis former life hang allaround hisconcrete box of a home in the AquilesSerdansection of Reynosa, oneof the poorest neighborhoods in oneof the ELECTION 2016 REPUBLICANS hemisphere’s most dangerous cities. Ablack POW/MIA flag hangs over the bed in a crampedbedroom; yellowed photos of Fort Braggg, N.C., sit on adresser; an Army jacket rests on a makeshift clothes rack.

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HOLIDAY TEXAS HISTORY

A numerical look at how Austinites celebrate the occasion.

By Nancy Flores nﬂ[email protected]

Mom. Momma. Mami. Each of us maay call her something differ- ent, but on Sunday we’ll all celebrate the mothers and mother figures in our lives. In honor of Mother’s Daay, we’re sharing some uniqquely Austin fun facts and by-the-numbers trivia.

Flower power 50: That’s the number of lucky ladies who will receive floowers for being among the first 50 moms Indian Blanket are among the shopping at either of Wheats- 650 plant species at the Lady ville Food Co-op’s two locations. Bird Johnson Wildﬂower Center. 650: You can see about 650 CONTRIBUTED native Texas plant species if you visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wild- floowerCenter’s gardens,meadowws son. Flower shop co-owner Mike and nature trails with your mom. Martinez saays that although there This yearr, Mother’s Daay also falls isn’t one particular flower asso- on the last daay of National Wild- ciated with Mother’s Daay, many flower Week. Special Mother’s Austinites request peonies this Daay outings on Sunday include time of year. a hike to explore the wildflow- ers at the Blunn Creek Nature Brunch with Mom The 1916 Driscoll Villa combines Italian Revival and Spanish Revival architectural styles. Clara Driscoll, an Preserve and a garden stroll to 73 percent: On Mother’s Daay, early proponent of historical preservation, donated the home to the Texas Fine Arts Association, which learn about the variety of wild- the busiest brunch daay of the yearr, would eventually spawn the Contemporary Austin. RODOLFO GONZALEZ / AUSTIN AMERICAN-STAATESMAN flowers native to Central Texas 73 percent of U.S. diners will make with the center’s plant conser- reservations at restaurants they vationist program manager. Visit haaven’t bookked before, according wildflower.org for more details. to Open Table, an online restau- 600-700: That’s the estimated rant reservation service. Open number of flower arrangement Table recently released its list of deliveries and pick up orders that Ben White Florist on South Mother’s Daay continued on D7 Congress Avenue expects during Mother’sDaayweekkend. Thefloower ALSO INSIDE shop has been preparing for the » A review of Sarah Bird’s“A big daay since the end of March, Love Letter to Texas Women,” D7 when it placed orders for the » Reader photos of their travels busy prom and Mother’s Daay sea- with Mom, D12

Clara Driscoll hoped Clara Driscoll in about MOVIES her home might bring 1900, about the appreciation of the time she art to fellow Texans. returned to Texas after a decade of ByJeanne Claire van Ryzin education [email protected] and travel in New York Clara Driscoll might enjoy the and Europe. 33-ffoot-tall elongated stainless CONTRIBUTED BY steel figure that now stands out- CONTEMPORARY side the Italianate house she built AUSTIN 100 years ago in West Austin. Leaders at the Contemporary Austin acquired the distinctly contemporary sculpture — Tom Friedman’s “Looking Up” — for its permanent collection last yearr, installing it on the formal oval lawn fronting the elegant 1916 villa perched above the shores of the Colorado River. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton star as Mildred and Richard Loving in But it’s Driscoll’s legacy that Jeff Nichols’ interracial drama “Loving.” CONTRIBUTED BY FOCUS FEATURES blazed thepaath thatacenturrylaater “I tell them I am a cattlewoman,” finds her home — and principally “MATCHBOX:DRISCOLL she reportedly said when asked. its surrounding gardens — a desti- VILLAPROJECTION” In Gilded Agge fashion, Driscoll nation for a growing collection of When: Gates open at 8 used her European travvels to buuy sophisticated contemporary art, p.m., projection 9 to 11 p.m. a wishing well in Tuscanny, a foun- much of it site-specific, inspired May 15 tain and a pair of lion statues in by the very landscape that Driscoll Where: Laguna Gloria, 3809 Rome and, from Venice, statu- thoughtfully designed. W. 35th St. ettes of the four seasons — all Heiress to a South Texas cat- Cost: Free of which she shipped home to tle fortune, world-traaveled and Infformation: place in the gardens surround- Director will premiere educated in Europe, a staunch 512-458-8191, ing her villa, a place she named ‘Loving,’ about landmark ABOUTTHISSTORY and active Texas Democrat and thecontemporaryaustin.org/ Laguna Gloria. American-Statesman a rare early advocate for historic event/ronen-sharabani An ardent student of landscape civil rights case in 1958. movies editor Charles Ealy preservation, Clara Driscoll (1881- design, Driscoll strove, as she has been attending the 1945) by all accounts poured her wrote in Austin’s Gossip maga- By Charles Ealy Cannes Film Festival since considerable energy into what- zine in 1926, “to giive an Old World [email protected] the late 1990s. He’ll be ever she set her sights on. penned a pair of romantic fictions touch to an incomparably beau- ﬁling daily reports from the In her early 20s, she purchased and a Broadway comic opera. tiful Texas landscape and to con- The Cannes Film Festival, the festival at austin360.com. the Alamo to saave it from destruc- Describedas darkllyauuburn-hairred tribute a little dignity and formal- world’s premier moovie evvent that tion.Sheserved16yearsas aTexas in accounts during her lifetime ity to the riotous caprices of this often sets the stagge for the awwards national committeewoman for and known for her allwaays-elegant violet-crowned vale.” season later in the yearr, kicks off the Democratic Partyy. She spoke attire, she never relinquished the Wednesday, and it will feature Virginia, stars Joel Edgerton and Spanish and French fluentlly. She romance of her ranch heritage: Driscoll continued on D4 a surprisingly large number of Ruth Negga as the couple, with a English-languagge films. The most supporting role for longgtime Nich- notable, from a Texas perspec- ols collaborator Michael Shan- A ﬁreplace tiive, will be the world premiere of non. In 1958, Richard and Mildred alcove Austin director Jeff Nichols’ inter- Loving were arrested for getting features a racial love story “Loving,” which married; the movie follows their mantel made has been selected for the official case through the courts. from a rafter competition for the Palme d’Or. Nichols will be joined at the fes- of the Alamo Although the modest Nichols tival by many other high-profile and carved would probably downplay such English-language productions — with a scene talk, it’s rather apparent that the the biggest of those being Steven depicting the taste-makers of European cinema Spielberg’s “The BFG.” As with battle there, consider him to be one of the top many high-profile films from given to Clara new American auteurs. Nichols’ well-established U.S. directors, Driscoll by the “Midnight Special” was part of the it will screen outside of compe- Daughters of official competition at the Berlin tition. It’s scheduled for wide the Republic Film Festival in February, and release in the States in Julyy, and of Texas in his 2012 movie, “Mud,” starring the early screening in Cannes appreciation Austin’s Matthew McConaughey, will surely launch a marketing for her efforts was selected for the Cannes offi- campaign to make it one of this on behalf of cial competition. What’s more, summer’s biggest box-office hits. the Texas his 2011 movie, “Take Shelterr,” Adapted from the Roald Dahl landmark. won the top prize in the Cannes storry about a Big Friendly Giant, it RODOLFO sidebar, Critics Week. stars Rebecca Hall, Mark Ryylance GONZALEZ His latest, which focuses on and Bill Hader. / AUSTIN the landmark civil rights case AMERICAN- over an interracial marriage in Cannes continued on D6 STTATESMAN Page 4 CMYK

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And yet Texas heritage proved paramount to her. At a government salvage auc- tion, Driscoll purchased two wrought-iron gates once used to keep cattle off the Texas Capitol grounds. One of those original gates still greets visitors at the entrance of Laguna Gloria; a replica pair stands in place for the second elsewhere on the grounds. Driscoll donated her home to the Texas Fine Arts Associ- ation in 1943, shortly before her death, so it might bring “pleasure in the appreciation of art to the people of Texas.” Laguna Gloria is certainly still doing that. Ignited by a $9 million donation from the Marcus Foundation three years ago to establish a sculpture park, the Contemporary is busy acquiring and commission- ing art and two years ago launched a master plan for improving and reconceiving the entire property to lever- age its natural features and improve its landscape. Big changes to Laguna Glo- ria are several years out. So to celebrate the centen- nial of the Driscoll Villa, the Contemporary has commis- sioned Israeli artist Ronen Sharabani to create a digi- tal video projection, “Match- box,” that will be cast on two sides of the house. It screens, for free, May 15. Sharabani is just the latest international artist to use Driscoll’s estate as cre- ative inspiration.

Texas roots, global experiences Born April 2, 1881, in a tiny South Texas coastal town no longer on the map, Clara Driscoll was the second child and only daughter of Robert Driscoll, a self-made wealthy cattleman, and Julia Fox Driscoll. Though she Tom Friedman’s 33-foot-tall sculpture “Looking Up” is on permanent display in front of the Driscoll Villa, part of the sculpture park at the spent her early years near Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria. RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Corpus Christi on the family’s 83,000-acre ranch, by age 11 Clara left Texas to attend private school, first in New WHAT’S IN York and then in France. ANAME?PLENTY The teenage Driscoll would OFHISTORY spend three years abroad In 1943, Clara Driscoll before returning to Texas. deeded Laguna Gloria And though in her lifetime to the Texas Fine Arts she would circle the globe Association, stipulating three times and make 14 trips that it be used as a to Europe, it was that first museum. exposure to what she called Originally called the Old World and its rever- the Clara Driscoll ence for its own antiquity Art Gallery, in 1961 that forever shaped Driscoll’s the Texas Fine Arts passion for historic preser- Association spun off vation. The ornately carved Rose on its own, and a new If today the concept of Window is a replica of an organization known protecting historic sites is original window in the c. as Laguna Gloria considered civic common 1771 San Jose Mission in San Art Museum was sense, it wasn’t so in a rela- Antonio. It reflects Clara established. tively young America at the Driscoll’s passion for Texas Members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas gather at Laguna Gloria in 1932. By 1996, with its turn of the previous century. history. RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ Clara Driscoll is the hatless lady in the center of the front row with a flower in her hair leaders in a decades- An ambitious, frontier-con- AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN and wearing a dress draped at the hips. CONTRIBUTED BY CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN long effort to build a quering nation maintained downtown location, little interest in venerating Laguna Gloria Art its architectural relics, let such a deed of heroism and and on her death in 1945, Though the Oyster Bay house tin American, a precursor Museum became the alone on spending resources bravery,” she wrote in a letter her body lay in state at the is long gone, historic photo- to this newspaper. Sevier Austin Museum of Art. to preserve them. published by the San Antonio landmark. graphs reveal its remarkable would sell the paper in 1919. Meanwhile, in 1995, In 1901, the 19-year-old Express newspaper. During her campaign to similarity to Laguna Gloria, Historical sources suggest the Texas Fine Arts Driscoll — newly returned Driscoll galvanized her fel- save the Alamo, Driscoll met with its blend of Italian and Driscoll’s fortune funded Association purchased from Europe and bursting low members of the Daugh- Henry Hulm “Hal” Sevier, an Spanish classical architec- much of the couple’s exu- a building downtown at with then-radical ideas — ters of the Republic of Texas ambitious editor and politi- tural details set among for- berant lifestyle. 700 Congress Ave. and found abhorrent the pub- to buy the former mission. cian serving his first term in mal gardens. In 1915, the couple pur- in 2002 changed its lic’s indifference to the crum- However, when nearly two the Texas Legislature. The Such revival design dove- chased a spot overlooking name to Arthouse. bling ruins of the Alamo, years of fundraising faltered, couple married in 1906, tails with early-20th-cen- the Colorado River. With a By 2011, both the very birthplace of Texas in 1904 Driscoll wrote a per- but not before the energetic tury trends when Ameri- peninsula curving around a organizations had independence. sonal check for $75,000 to Driscoll tried her hand at a ca’s newly minted million- lagoon and the naturally ter- hit a rough patch. “There does not stand in cover the cost. That gesture writing career. In short order, aire class typically favored raced site offering dramatic Arthouse failed to raise the world today a building or garnered her the lifelong Driscoll penned and pub- architecture that embod- views, the site reminded enough money for a monument which can recall moniker Savior of the Alamo, lished two effusively roman- ied European tradition — them of Lake Como. Driscoll major remodel to its tic Texas ranch-themed tales an emblem of refinement promptly named it Laguna building, and Austin as well as a comic opera, of taste. Spanish revival and Gloria, combining references Museum of Art failed “Mexicana,” the produc- Italian revival architecture to her family’s South Texas to raise money for a tion of which she financed found particular favor in the ranch, La Gloria, and the downtown building. for its short run on Broad- 1910s and 1920s. About the lagoon. The trustees of both way in 1906. same time as Driscoll built The Seviers weren’t the groups opted to merge. On their three-month Laguna Gloria, newspaper first to be smitten with the In 2013, the newly European honeymoon, the tycoon William Randolph site. The earliest archaeo- conjoined institution couple became enamored Hearst built Hearst Castle logical evidence indicates rebranded itself as the with the villas and gardens in California, a pastiche of that Native Americans vis- Contemporary Austin. of Italy, particularly those historic architectural styles ited the area at least 5,000 It was a moment surrounding Lake Como near that nevertheless used Span- years ago. Records show of odd historic the Italian Alps. Driscoll kept ish and Italian attributes in Stephen F. Austin owned fate: The merger written accounts and col- abundance. the land briefly from 2183 actually reunited two lected photographs of what until his death in 1836, never organizations born of inspired her, particularly for- Building realizing his plans to build one. mal Italian gardens, statu- Laguna Gloria a home there. The Contemporary ary and unusual entrances. After the death of Driscoll’s Though the Seviers hired maintains two sites: But before they would father in 1914, the couple San Antonio architect Har- the downtown Jones build Laguna Gloria, the returned to Texas and settled vey L. Page, there is plenty Center at 700 Congress Clara Driscoll included the classical structure she dubbed Seviers settled in New York in Austin. In a venture sub- about the villa that suggests Ave. and Laguna Gloria, the Temple of Love as contrast to the rustic landscape and built a home on Oys- sidized in part by Driscoll’s it was Driscoll who drove 3809 W. 35th St. of the lower peninsula of the Laguna Gloria grounds. ter Bay, Long Island, next money, Sevier founded a RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN door to Theodore Roosevelt. daily newspaper, the Aus- Driscoll continued on D5 Page 5 CMYK

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Driscoll the formal gardens. Through Preserving beauty partyor dinner dance. A thou- a line of oaks, down a ram- Driscoll and her husband sand guests were invited to a continued from D4 bling rustic path, Driscoll lived at Laguna Gloria until 1921 reception for the Texas placed a small pillared pavil- once again a family death Legislature. Also, one histori- the majority of the design ion that she named the Tem- changed the course of her cal record notes, Driscoll par- decisions. ple of Love. But she didn’t life. She moved to Corpus ticularly enjoyed celebrating Idiosyncrasies abound. intend it to offer shade. Christi in 1929 to take care Texas holidays. From the east side, the win- Rather, its classical form of the family business after When she deeded Laguna dows suggest the rectilinear was meant to inspire lofty her brother died. Though Gloria to the Texas Fine Arts house is three stories tall; thoughts. she spent two years in the Association, Driscoll also the west side reads as two Important to the garden mid-1930s in Chile while her donated $5,000 for repairs levels of windows.A tower development was Nazario husband was ambassador, and maintenance. And she protrudes out of the villa’s Galvan, whom Driscoll Driscoll returned to Corpus specifically left three posses- southwest corner — a tiny brought from her family Christi, not Austin. The couple sions in the house: an Italian room Driscoll sometimes ranch to Laguna Gloria. divorced in 1937, and Driscoll chandelier in the ballroom, used as her study. A talented gardener, Gal- resumed her maiden name. the long dining room table Inside, the villa is arranged van and his family — which Only very occasionally did and the Alamo rafter fire- as a rather hectic series of would grow to include eight Driscoll return to Laguna Glo- place mantel. rooms on multiple levels. children — lived in the gate- ria after 1929. The Galvan fam- “In the future,” Driscoll Some are just a few steps A path leads down the oak ridge of the peninsula at Laguna house, and he remained as ily lived on the property, but wrote of Laguna Gloria in above or below neighbor- Gloria. Clara Driscoll referred to this path as “Lovers Lane” caretaker for the property the villa was shuttered. 1943, “it will be used ... to ing rooms. as it leads to the Temple of Love, a small classical pavilion. after Driscoll left in 1929. But during the 1920s, preserve the things that are And then there’s Driscoll’s RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN When Driscoll deeded the Laguna Gloria prevailed as beautiful in life.” fondness for unusual door- property in 1943, she stip- Austin’s high-society show- ways. One slender glass door ulated that Galvan remain place, the destination for any Contact Jeanne Claire van on the south wall of the sun- for her efforts on behalf of with the rustic represented caretaker until his death. visiting dignitary or celebrity Ryzin at 512-445-3699. room opens to a metal balus- the Texas landmark. At the the ultimate in sophisti- and the site of many a large Twitter: @artsinaustin trade blocking any practical front entrance of Laguna cated landscape design in exit. Between the ballroom Gloria, Driscoll installed a Driscoll’s age. “Beautiful” and the kitchen, an arch- replica of the Rose Window was embodied by balance, way covers part of the but- from San Antonio’s San Jose rationality and formality ler’s door, and three stairs Mission. — smooth grass lawns and complicate matters further. precisely situated classical Anyone would have to duck Outdoor designs statuary. “Rustic” was artic- to get through the door, tray Driscoll poured consid- ulated by thicker and more in hand. erable thought into the gar- varied plantings, areas of Texas history abounds, den design of Laguna Glo- deep shade, curving and too. ria. In sync with the land- uneven paths and roughly A fireplace alcove features scape theories popular in hewn stone stairways and a mantel made from a rafter her time, Driscoll created walls. of the Alamo and carved with formal gardens immediately Driscoll employed art to a scene depicting the battle around the house that then create moments in the land- there, given to Driscoll by transitioned to rustic landscape intended to spark emo- the Daughters of the Repub- scaping. tion or contemplation. The lic of Texas in appreciation Contrasting the beautiful four seasons statues stand in

A lion statue stands guard on the west terrace of the Driscoll Villa. Clara Driscoll A talented gardener, Nazario Galvan and his family, purchased garden statuary which would grow to include eight children, lived in the in Italy for her Austin gatehouse, and he remained as caretaker for the property estate. RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ after Driscoll left in 1929. CONTRIBUTED BY CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN