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By Martin Grelle
Located in San Antonio, TX
Martin Grelle
(Born 1954)
Clifton Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 33 x 45
Medium: Oil on Canvas
197...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Lester Hughes
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lester Hughes
(1938-2021)
El Paso Artist
Image Size: 18 x 36
Frame Size: 20 x 38
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Stagecoa...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
F...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 24 x 30
F...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Marc Graigson
California Artist
Size: 9 x 12
Frame: 15.75 x 18.75
Medium: ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
William Ballantine Dorsey
(1942-2019)
California Artist
Size: 11 x 14
Frame: 17.5 x 20.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
William Ballantine Dorsey
(1942-2019)
California Artist
Image Size: 16 x 20
Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5
Medium: Oil ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Darwin William Duncan
(1905-2002)
California/Minnesota Artist
Image Size: 16 x 20
Frame Size: 22.75 x 26.75
Medi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olive Brack San Antonio River
(1890-1957)
San Antonio, TX
Image Size: 12 x 18
Frame ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Caroline Shelton
Image Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Frame Size: 17 x 19.5
Medium: Watercolor
"King William House"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dorothy Johnson
Image Size: 12 x 16
Frame Size: 14.5 x 18.5
Medium: Oil
"Prickly Pear"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Cynthia Wiggins
Austin Artist
Image Size: 14 x 11
Frame Size: 19 x 16
Medium: Oil
"Native"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
E. Salazar
Texas Artist
Image Size: 23.75 x 17.75
Frame Size: 29.5 x 23.5
Medium: Oil
"The Brave"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Don Warren
Located in San Antonio, TX
Don Warren
(1935-2006)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33.5
Medium: Oil
"Mountains with Cen...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Eric Harrison
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison
(Born 1971)
Texas Hill Country Artist
Image Size: 40 X 60
Frame Size: 53 x 73
Medium: Acrylic
2015
"Kendall County Ranch" Longhorn Bluebonnet
Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Bluebonnet painting...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Eric Harrison
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison
(Born 1971)
Texas Hill Country Artist
Image Size: 36 x 48
Frame Size: 45 x 57
Medium: Oil
"Rural Texas Charm...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Located in San Antonio, TX
Cynthia Wiggins
Austin Artist
Image Size: 14 x 11
Frame Size: 20.5 x 17.5
Medium: Oil
"After Sorolla" Portrait
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Edmund Daniel Kinzinger
Located in San Antonio, TX
Edmund Daniel Kinzinger
(1888-1963)
Waco Artist
Image Size: 18.5 x 24
Frame Size: 28.75 x 33.25
Medium: Pastel
D...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
By A.D. Greer
Located in San Antonio, TX
A. D. Greer
(1904-1998)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 21 x 40
Frame Size: 27 x 46
Medium: Oil
"Mountains"
Biography
...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By John Austin Hanna
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Austin Hanna
Born 1942
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 18 x 24
Frame Size: 24 x 30
Medium: Oil
"Lazy Afte...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
D. Weston
Image Size: 16 x 20
Frame Size: 22 x 24
Medium: Oil
"Farm House & Barn"
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Eric Harrison
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison
(Born 1971)
Texas Hill Country Artist
Size: 16 x 20
Frame: 23 x 27
Medium: Oil
"Mission Concepcion" San Antonio Texas
Painted in 2017
Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Bluebonnet painting...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Eric Harrison
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison
(Born 1971)
Texas Hill Country Artist
Image Size: 30 x 24
Frame Size: 36 x 30
Medium: Oil
2021
"Re...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Robert W. Wood
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Wood (G. Day)
(1889 -1979)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 34 x 46
Medium: Oil on Canv...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By DeForrest Judd
Located in San Antonio, TX
Deforrest Judd
(1916 - 1993)
Dallas Artist
Image Size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/2
Frame Size: 17 x 20.25
Medium: Lithograph ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Located in San Antonio, TX
Cynthia Wiggins
Austin Artist
Image Size: 12 x 16
Frame Size: Unframed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Las Golondrinas" S...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By John Austin Hanna
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Austin Hanna
Born 1942
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 5 x 7
Frame Size: 12 x 14
Medium: Oil
"Tibet"
Biog...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Rolla Taylor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Rolla Taylor
(1872-1970)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 24 x 30
Frame Size: 28.5 x 34.5
Medium: Oil
"Cattle Land...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 30 x 48
F...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Gary Niblett
Located in San Antonio, TX
Gary Niblett
(Born 1943)
New Mexico Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 38 x 50
Medium: Oil
"A Fine Welcome" Nocturnal Western
Biography
Gary Niblett (Born 1943)
Born and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico and living with his wife, Monika in Santa Fe, Gary Niblett is a painter, primarily with oil, of western scenes especially Navajo and Pueblo Indians, cowboys on horses in landscape, and frontier genre. He has also done paintings from his travels such as Streets of Warsaw and Women of Golondrinas, and during these travels exhibited work in Moscow, Taiwan, Beijing and the Royal Watercolor Society in London.
From birth, Niblett grew up with the American West as a part of his daily life. Recognizing his talent, local ranchers paid him to do portraits of his horses. After high school graduation, he attended the Art Center School of Design* in California and then spent eight years in Los Angeles with Hanna-Barbera* animation studios as a background and animation artist. There he met his wife, Monika, and they married in 1970.
Deciding to focus on western art, Niblett left commercial art in 1973. He and his wife, Monica, returned to New Mexico where they live in an adobe style home. In New Mexico, he has received much attention for the quality of his painting. In 1990, he was named "Distinguished Calendar Artist" for New Mexico Magazine, and one of his oil paintings is in the collection of the New Mexico state capitol building. He has also been featured in magazines such as International Fine Art Collector, Time, Saturday Review and New Mexico Magazine.
In 1976, Niblett was voted into the Cowboy Artists of America...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 30 x 48
F...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Rolla Taylor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 30.25 x 36.5 Medium: Oil o...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Olin Travis
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olin Travis (1888-1975) Dallas, Tx. Image Size: 7.5 x 11.5 Frame Size: 15.5 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Board "To a Good Friend A small token of appreciation"
Biography
Olin Travis (1888-1975)
Travis, Olin Herman. 1888-1975. Dallas. Landscape, portrait, and Figure painter, graphic artist, muralist, teacher, writer.
Born and reared in Dallas, Travis attended public schools there. in his youth he received instruction from R. Jerome Hill...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Charles Harvi Altheide
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Harvi Altheide
(1874 - 1951)
San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri
Image Size: 11 x 15
Frame Size...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Morris Walton Leader
Located in San Antonio, TX
Walton Leader (1877-1966)
Austin Artist Image
Size: 28 x 36 Frame Size: 34 x 41
Medium: Oil on Canvas
1930s Onion Creek Austin Texas...
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Dawson Dawson-Watson
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dawson Dawson-Watson "On the Hopi Reservation" Has two different old gallery labe...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
F...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
E. Salazar
Texas Artist
Image Size: 15 x 13
Frame Size: 19 x 17
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Riding High"
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
E. Salazar
Texas Artist
Image Size: 40 x 30
Frame Size: 47 x 38
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Scouts"
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
E. Salazar
Texas Artist
Image Size: 40 x 30
Frame Size: 47 x 37
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Quanah Parker"
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 36 x 24
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 36 x 24
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 22 x 34
Frame Size: Unframed
Medium...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Located in San Antonio, TX
Joe Rader Roberts
(1925 - 1982)
Lockhart/Houston Artist
Image Size: 15 x 12
Fra...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Fred Darge
(1900-1978)
Dallas
Image Size: 3 x 4
Frame Size: 10 x 12
Medium: Oil
1940
"The Window" Chisos Mountai...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 24 x 30
F...
Category
1970s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 18 x 14
Frame Size: 22 x 18
Medium: Oil
"Spring In Her Step" Cattle Landscape Texas
A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings.
Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020).
After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Member OPA
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 14 x 18
Frame Size: 21 x 25
Medium: Oil
"Barn To Last" Texas Farm Scene
A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings.
Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020).
After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Member of the OPA
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 18 x 24
Frame Size: 25 x 31
Medium: Oil
"Pasture Bonnets" Texas Bluebonnets
A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings.
Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020).
After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson
(Born 1986)
San Antonio, TX
Image Size: 24 x 60
Medium: Oil
"Beacon"
When you see them in person ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson
(1986-Present)
Texas Artist
Image Size: 30 x 40
Medium: Oil
"American Busker"
When you see the pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 30 x 24
F...
Category
1990s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Major George Washington Littlefield died in 1920. He commissioned E. Martin Hennings around 1910 to do six large paintings of scenes from his 235,000-acre ( part of the XIT ) ranch to hang in his bank in Austin. I have included photos of the paintings hanging in the bank from the Littlefield Book.
I am not sure, but the bank possibly went under sometime in the 197s-1980s. All of the art and antiques were stored, and they had a sale. We have 3 of the six murals that were commissioned by Littlefield.
I have about 40 pages of info on Littlefield and the murals. Too much to enter now but I will be scanning that info later this week.
The Littlefield mansion is still in Downtown Austin. At one time he was the richest man in the state. He was UT's biggest donor for several years prior to his death.
The paintings are
34 x 130
35 x 144
35 x 119
Two are hanging in my friend's ranch house. The other is of a large herd of Hereford Cattle. It is actually pictured
on the cover of the Biography of George Washing Littlefield.
Littlefield, George Washington (1842–1920). George Washington Littlefield, cattleman, banker, and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, son of Fleming and Mildred Terrell (Satterwhite) White Littlefield, was born in Panola County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1842. The family moved to Texas in 1850 after a confrontation between Fleming Littlefield and his wife's family. In marrying Fleming, her overseer, after the death of her first husband, Mildred in her family's eyes had married beneath her station, an action to which her family objected. George grew to young manhood on the family plantation near Belmont, Gonzales County, helping his mother to manage the place after Fleming's death in 1853. George received a basic education in Gonzales College and Baylor University, 1853–55 and 1857. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 George enlisted in Company I, Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers), which fought in the Army of Tennessee. Before his military career was ended at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, on December 26, 1863, by an exploding cannon shell, George rose to the rank of company commander, the youngest in his regiment, and fought at Shiloh, Perryville, and Chickamauga. At Mossy Creek he was promoted to major, a title by which he was addressed after the mid 1880s. Back in Texas after being discharged in 1864, he took control of a plantation belonging to himself and his brother, and "went to work to make the best, as he thought, of a miserable life, having to carry his crutches everywhere." During the war, on January 14, 1863, George married Alice Payne Tillar, with whom he had two children, both of whom died in infancy. In his business ventures thereafter, George Littlefield, who had a highly developed sense of family, utilized nephews and the husbands of nieces as managers.
George's first year's farming after the war ended in disaster caused by three years of worm infestation and flood. Even the road-side store he opened, which prospered because George accepted barter, in particular cattle, could not make up for the losses. In 1871 he gathered a herd of cattle, half of which were his and the rest belonging to his brother, bought more, and drove the herd to Abilene, Kansas, where he sold the animals for enough to discharge all of his debts and leave him with $3,600 "to begin business." Over the next several years entrepreneur Littlefield opened a dry goods store in partnership with J. C. Dilworth in Gonzales, bought and trailed cattle, bought ranches in Caldwell and Hays counties, and developed his plantations. In the trailing business, Littlefield commonly bought his cattle, rather than, as most trailing contractors did, trailing them for a fee. He took the greater risk but reaped the greater reward in their sale. In 1877 Littlefield bought water rights along the Canadian River near Tascosa and established the XIT Ranch which he sold in 1881 for $248,000. Littlefield rejoiced that he had obtained "far more money than he had ever expected to have" and thought of retiring at thirty-nine years of age. But he did not retire, as "he learned. . .that the more money a man makes, the more he has to make, that a man's world opens up a little bit wider with each deal and demands become heavier."
In 1882 Littlefield followed the advice of his principal ranch manager, half-nephew J. Phelps White, and purchased water interests sufficient to control some four million acres of land in New Mexico east of the Pecos River between Fort Sumner and Roswell, on which he established the Bosque Grande Ranch. In 1883 he bought the site of the first windmill on the New Mexico plains at the Four Lakes north of Tatum and developed the Four Lakes Ranch with windmills and barbed wire to control access to water and permit upgrading of stock. His cattle after 1882 carried his LFD brand on their right side. In 1887 Littlefield began acquiring land in Mason County, which soon spread over some 120,000 acres in adjacent Kimble and Menard counties, a ranch he put under management of half-nephew John Will White. In the 1890s Littlefield assembled acreage that came to be known as the LFD Farm in Roswell, New Mexico, on which he established an apple grove, grew forage for cattle, recruited his horses prior to the spring round-up, and maintained the pure-bred bulls that he used to upgrade his herds. Littlefield climaxed his ranching operation in 1901 with the purchase for two dollars per acre of 235,858 acres of the Yellow House (southern) Division of the XIT Ranch in Lamb and Hockley counties. To reach the prevailing wind above the escarpment at the ranch headquarters, Littlefield put up a windmill 130 feet tall to the top of the fan, claimed at the time to be the world's tallest windmill. In 1912 he established the Littlefield Lands Company under Arthur Pope...
Category
1910s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 36 x 24
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
2...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
2...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 36 x 24
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
2...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil