The Texas Landscape and the European Shift The dust of Milford, Texas, provides the first layer of Harry Carnohan's visual language. Born in 1904, he moves through the landscape of his youth, absorbing the light and the starkness of the American South before his gaze turns toward the formal rigor of the Art Institute of Chicago. He does not remain a mere observer of the plains; instead, he seeks the structural secrets of the Old World. A scholarship from the Bryan Lathrop Traveling Fellowship carries him away from the familiar, placing him in the studios of Paris, Florence, and Rome. In the s…