Total of nine black and white photographs selected for the hotel's lobby and billiard room
Fine art photographer Keith Dotson is excited to announce that a large collection of his photographs can now be seen in the lobby and adjoining billiard room of the historic Sam Houston Hotel on Prairie Street in downtown Houston.
About the Sam Houston Hotel
The Sam Houston Hotel, sometimes called just "The Sam," is located one block south of the 1910 Harris County Courthouse. It was named after Sam Houston (1793 – 1863), the general who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Texian army that helped Texas win its independence from Mexico. Houston served as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas. He later represented Texas as a U.S. Senator and became the only person to serve as Governor of two states — Texas and Tennessee.
Notable Texas architecture firm Sanguinet, Staats, Hendrick and Gottlieb designed the hotel, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The Lobby
The lobby of the Sam Houston Hotel hosts three of Keith's panoramic photographs of abandoned places.
A photograph of the lobby of the Sam Houston Hotel, showing photographs by Keith Dotson on the wall. Image courtesy of the hotel.
The left panel holds a large landscape photograph featuring an abandoned rusty pickup truck amidst tall grass and weeds. Click here to buy a print for yourself.
The center panel features a very wide and slightly cropped portrait of a ghost town street of abandoned buildings discovered in the American South. Buy a fine art print here.
The right panel features a photograph of a dusty, old piano found inside an abandoned church in a ghost town in the American South. Portrait of Keith Dotson by Teena Young. Buy a print here.
The Billiard Room
A beautiful billiard room containing six Keith Dotson photographs adjoins the lobby of the hotel. All of these framed photographs represent abstractions made from natural subjects.
See the entire Abstractions from Nature portfolio here.
Portrait of Keith Dotson, surrounded by a collection of his black and white photographs, in the billiard room of the newly remodeled Sam Houston Hotel. Photo by Teena Young.
In the studio: one of the abstractions from nature series featured in the Sam Houston Hotel's billiard room, waiting for trimming and packaging.
Book a stay with the Sam Houston Hotel
Reviews of the hotel are good. If you want to experience the hotel yourself (and see my work in person) here are the details.
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