Royce Roberts

"OAKS AND BLUEBONNET" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 23 X 29

20th Century

John William Hilton (1904 - 1983) California Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 26.5 x 32.5 Medium: Oil on Panel "Navajo Medicine Man" Biography John William Hilton (1904 - 1983)...

Paul Grimm (1891-1974) California Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 31 x 37 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1953 "Pala Mission" The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the "Pala Mission", was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River. Pala Mission was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias—Alta California. Today it is located in the Pala Indian Reservation located in northern San Diego County, with the official name of Mission San Antonio de Pala.[2][4] It is the only historic mission facility still serving a Mission Indian tribe. Pala (a derivation of the native term Pale, meaning water) was essentially a small rancho surrounded by large fields and herds. The Pala site had been noted by Father Juan Mariner and Captain Juan Pablo Grijalva on an exploratory trip in 1795, when they went up the San Diego River, and then through Sycamore Canyon to the Santa Maria Valley (or Pamó Valley) and into what they named El Valle de San José, now known as Warner Springs. Once Mission San Luis Rey began to prosper, it attracted the attention of numerous mountain Native Americans in the area, who were called the Luiseño by the Spanish. Spanish era The Franciscan fathers chose this site for the Pala Mission because it was a traditional gathering place and village for the Native American residents. Father Peyrí oversaw the addition of a chapel and housing to the granary complex, which was constructed at the spot in 1810.[4] The chapel's interior wall surfaces featured paintings by native artists, originally measuring 144 by 27 feet. Workers went into the Palomar Mountains and cut down cedar trees to use as roof beams.[5] Pala is unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. By 1820, some 1,300 baptisms had been performed at the outpost.[6] Folk tales about the mission include mention of a prickly pear cactus, which became a local symbol of Christian victory, that grew up at the foot of the cross.[7] Mexican era After the nation achieved independence from Spain, the Mexican Congress passed An Act for the Secularization of the Missions of California on August 17, 1833 (the act was ratified in 1834).[8] Father Buenaventura Fortuna surrendered Mission San Luis Rey and all its holdings, including Las Flores Estancia and the Pala Asistencia, to government comisianados (commissioners) Pío Pico and Pablo de la Portillà on August 22, 1835; the assessed value of "Rancho de Pala" was $15,363.25.[9] More than a decade later, fearful of the impending conquest of Alta California by the United States as a result of the Mexican–American War...

Lester Hughes (1938-2021) El Paso Artist Image Size: 15 x 30 Frame Size: 21 x 36 Medium: Oil "Move Along" Herding Cattle West Texas Biography Lester Hughes (1938-2021) From El Paso, ...

Robert Harrison (Born 1949) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 36 x 48 Frame Size: 44 x 56 Medium: Oil on canvas Dated 1999 "Coreopsis & Daggers" Texas Hill Country. Wildflowers Biograph...

Manuel Garza (Born 1949) Texas Artist Image Size: 9 x 12 Frame Size: 15.25 x 18.25 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnet Fence" Biography Manuel Garza (Born 1949) Growing up in Central T...

Gary Ray 1952 California Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 42.75 x 52.75 Medium: Oil on Board "Road to the Mountains" Biography Gary Ray 1952 Gary Ray (B...

Childe Hassam paints a beautiful view out onto the ocean from between the trees in his artwork entitled, “Marine View, Isle of Shoals.”

Spring Constantin Kluge (Russian, Latvian, 1912-2003) Signed Lower Right 29.5 x 36.5 inches 36.5 x 44 inches framed He was born in Riga, Latvia, on January 29, 1912 to Russian paren...

Vintage Grand Canyon Impressionist Landscape Majestic impressionist landscape of the Grand Canyon in beautiful vivid colors by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). The viewer...

Beautiful contemporary impressionist depiction of the historical Redman House in Watsonville, CA, by an unknown artist (20th Century). Titled "The Redman House Watsonville", dated "11/22/06" and initialed (illegible) on verso in pencil. No frame. Redman Hirahara Farmstead is a complex including a historic house designed by William Weeks (1897) and a vernacular barn in the Pajaro Valley, south of Watsonville, California. A Japanese American owned farm which was maintained by local citizens during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II and was returned to the Hirahara family after the war, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The barn included a living unit...

"Noah's Ark", Monkeys in Trees w. Crocodiles, Richard DeTreville 1924 San Mateo A lively, large-scale vertical painting of Macaques monkeys in the trees abo...

A dreamy tropical landscape of the beautiful Cook Islands coastline at sunset with a red anthurium flower in the foreground by Motohiko Ono (20th Century)...