Painter, ceramicist, and collage artist, Dorothy Hood was born in Bryan, Texas, on August 27, 1918 to Georgianna and Frank Hood and raised in Houston, Texas.

Hood was a Houston artist who had exhibitions all over Texas, including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1970, and her work reached other parts of the U.S. and Europe as well. She received the Childe Hassam Award in 1973, and had a major show at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York in 1974. Hood was tapped to design sets for the Houston Ballet's bicentennial production "Allen's Landing" in 1975. She had shows at Rice University, Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, and the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.

The collection is a very rich document of Houston’s visual arts history.

The original materials are available in UH Libraries' Special Collections in the Dorothy Hood Papers.