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Lucretia Donnell Coke’s artworks are the subject of Timeless Style: Pastels by Lucretia Donnell Coke, Protégée of Frank Reaugh. The exhibit continues through Aug. 2 at the Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, on the seventh floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas. Lucretia’s mother, an artist and teacher, studied with the eminent Dallas artist Frank Reaugh, sometimes taking her daughter along to the lessons. Reaugh took notice of the young girl and invited her to study with him, thus beginning a relationship that lasted more than two decades. While working toward her Bachelor of Arts degree at SMU, she was already being exhibited at venues such as the Dallas Museum of Fine Art. One of her prize-winning pieces from this period – Rain-Washed Canyon with View of Double Mountain – is included in the display. Other works in the exhibit have been selected to show the range of subjects and evolution of her style during the ensuing decades. She continues to paint, teach and exhibit her work from her home in Austin.