# Verda Ligon

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**Verda Ligon** (1902–1970) was an American painter and printmaker.

Born in [Dallas](/source/Dallas), Ligon studied art in that city with [Thomas M. Stell](/source/Thomas_M._Stell). She attended [Southern Methodist University](/source/Southern_Methodist_University), the [Detroit Institute of Arts](/source/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts), and the [Phoenix Art Institute](/source/Phoenix_Art_Institute) in New York City. For forty years she served as a schoolteacher in the Dallas public school system, and died in Dallas.[1]

Ligon was a member of the Frank Reaugh Art Circle during her career.[2] In 1939 she was one of eight women who founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, to challenge the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers; the others were [Lucile Land Lacy](/source/Lucile_Land_Lacy), [Stella LaMond](/source/Stella_LaMond), [Bertha Landers](/source/Bertha_Landers), [Mary Lightfoot](/source/Mary_Lightfoot), [Blanche McVeigh](/source/Blanche_McVeigh), [Coreen May Spellman](/source/Coreen_May_Spellman), and [Lura Ann Taylor](/source/Lura_Ann_Taylor).[3] She exhibited throughout Texas during her career.[1] One of her paintings, an oil on [Masonite](/source/Masonite) entitled *Jimson Weed*, is currently owned by the [Dallas Art Museum](/source/Dallas_Art_Museum).[4]

## References

1. Jennings, David R. ["Ligon, Verda"](http://www.daviddikefineart.com/artists/265-ligon-verda.html). *www.daviddikefineart.com*. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

1. Paula L. Grauer & Michael R. Grauer (1999). [*Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800–1945*](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoftexa00grau). Texas A&M University Press. pp. [55](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoftexa00grau/page/55)–. ISBN 978-0-89096-861-1.

1. Katie Robinson Edwards (1 July 2014). [*Midcentury Modern Art in Texas*](https://books.google.com/books?id=PC7TAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54). University of Texas Press. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-292-75659-5.

1. ["Jimson Weed – DMA Collection Online"](https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5085316). Retrieved 5 March 2018.

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